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Power Plant Instrumentation and Controls

Author : Philip Kiameh

Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional

Page : 512 pages

File Size : 41,47 MB

Release : 2014-02

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9780071798488

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A practical guide to increasing power plant operating uptime and profitability Power Plant Instrumentation and Controls provides a detailed description of power plant computer simulation and modern instrumentation and control systems that allow improvements in online power plant operating periods and thus profitability – minimizing unnecessary outages, maintenance activities, and downtime. The book reviews the many benefits of these different computer simulation programs, modern instrumentation, and control systems as they relate to plant safety, reliability, costs, efficiency, and emissions. It focuses on modern power generating plants – gas turbines, co-generation, and combined cycle plants. The book features a simulation program to determine the effects on turbine performance; turbine creep life; environmental emissions; and turbine life-cycle cost, revenue, and profitability of the following parameters: Variations in ambient temperature and pressure Inlet and exhaust losses Engine deterioration Different faults Power augmentation methods, including peak mode Water injection Control system performance, including proportional offset, integral windup, and trips Fuel type Variations in maintenance techniques and frequency Power generating plant outages are often due to unnecessary and improper maintenance activities and poor or outdated instrumentation and control systems, resulting in a significant reduction in profitability of power plant operation. This authoritative volume addresses these concerns and offers proven solutions. It is an essential next step to Kiameh's successful Power Generation Handbook and Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Guide. Power Plant Instrumentation and Controls includes Bar charts trending key turbine parameters Bar charts trending compressor characteristics and operating point during engine transients Tips for exporting simulated data to other software, such as Excel Exercises to illustrate use of simulation programs under different scenarios, including modern co-generation and combined-cycle plants In-depth coverage of smart instrumentation and advanced control systems used in modern power generating plants Details on selecting, commissioning, operating, diagnosing, and testing smart instrumentation, Distributed Control Systems, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and all types of control valves, actuators, and positioners



Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Systems for Safety and Security

Author : Yastrebenetsky, Michael

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 470 pages

File Size : 15,83 MB

Release : 2014-02-28

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1466651342

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Accidents and natural disasters involving nuclear power plants such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the recent meltdown at Fukushima are rare, but their effects are devastating enough to warrant increased vigilance in addressing safety concerns. Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Systems for Safety and Security evaluates the risks inherent to nuclear power and methods of preventing accidents through computer control systems and other such emerging technologies. Students and scholars as well as operators and designers will find useful insight into the latest security technologies with the potential to make the future of nuclear energy clean, safe, and reliable.



Power-plant Control and Instrumentation

Author : David Lindsley

Publisher : IET

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 27,28 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9780852967652

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Describes control systems for boilers and heat-recovery steam generators (HRSGs) in a variety of applications, from waste-to-energy plants to combined-cycle gas-turbine power stations. Basics such as methods of connecting instruments are explained, and more advanced discussions of design features of distributed control systems are also included. At every stage, emphasis is given to the interactive nature of plants and to troubleshooting and problem solving. Includes chapter summaries. The author is Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and the Institute of Marine Engineers, and is a Senior Member of the Instrument Society of America. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



Thermal Power Plant Control and Instrumentation

Author : David Lindsley

Publisher :

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 26,15 MB

Release : 2018

Category : TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING

ISBN : 9781523119110

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Power-plant Control and Instrumentation, 2nd edition - contents include a wide variety of plant and combustion arrangements, from smaller boiler systems to full-scale generators, common principles, commercial aspects, measurement, and key techniques such as cogeneration and combined cycle.



Maintenance of Process Instrumentation in Nuclear Power Plants

Author : H.M. Hashemian

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 38,28 MB

Release : 2006-11-09

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3540337040

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This book provides a training course for I and C maintenance engineers in power, process, chemical, and other industries. It summarizes all the scattered literature in this field. The book compiles 30 years of knowledge gained by the author and his staff in testing the I and C systems of nuclear power plants around the world. It focuses on process temperature and pressure sensors and the verification of these sensors’ calibration and response time.



POWER PLANT INSTRUMENTATION

Author : K. KRISHNASWAMY

Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Page : 315 pages

File Size : 24,85 MB

Release : 2013-08-10

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 8120348249

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The second edition of this text presents an overview of power generation and discusses the different types of equipment used in a steam thermal power generation unit. The book describes various conventional and non-conventional energy sources. It elaborates on the instrumentation and control of water-steam and fuel-air flue gas circuits along with optimization of combustion. The text also deals with the power plant management system including the combustion process, boiler efficiency calculation, and maintenance and safety aspects. In addition, the book explains Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system as well as turbine monitoring and control. This book is designed for the undergraduate students of electronics and instrumentation engineering and electrical and electronics engineering. New To This Edition • A new chapter on Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation is added, which elaborates how electricity is generated in a Nuclear Power Plant. Key Features • Includes numerous figures to clarify the concepts. • Gives a number of worked-out problems to help students enhance their learning skills. • Provides chapter-end exercises to enable students to test their understanding of the subject.



Managing Modernization of Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Systems

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency

Publisher :

Page : 138 pages

File Size : 37,87 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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Covers all of the management activities related to modernization of I&C systems in nuclear power plants, including the evaluation of all I&C systems to determine which can be successfully maintained and which need to be modernized.



Boiler Operation Engineering

Author : P. Chattopadhyay

Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional

Page : 1434 pages

File Size : 16,67 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Boilers

ISBN : 9780071356756

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Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Handbook

Author : Swapan Basu

Publisher : Academic Press

Page : 1154 pages

File Size : 10,43 MB

Release : 2019-06-09

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0081028059

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Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Handbook, Second Edition, provides a contemporary resource on the practical monitoring of power plant operation, with a focus on efficiency, reliability, accuracy, cost and safety. It includes comprehensive listings of operating values and ranges of parameters for temperature, pressure, flow and levels of both conventional thermal power plant and combined/cogen plants, supercritical plants and once-through boilers. It is updated to include tables, charts and figures from advanced plants in operation or pilot stage. Practicing engineers, freshers, advanced students and researchers will benefit from discussions on advanced instrumentation with specific reference to thermal power generation and operations. New topics in this updated edition include plant safety lifecycles and safety integrity levels, advanced ultra-supercritical plants with advanced firing systems and associated auxiliaries, integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) and integrated gasification fuel cells (IGFC), advanced control systems, and safety lifecycle and safety integrated systems. - Covers systems in use in a wide range of power plants: conventional thermal power plants, combined/cogen plants, supercritical plants, and once through boilers - Presents practical design aspects and current trends in instrumentation - Discusses why and how to change control strategies when systems are updated/changed - Provides instrumentation selection techniques based on operating parameters. Spec sheets are included for each type of instrument - Consistent with current professional practice in North America, Europe, and India - All-new coverage of Plant safety lifecycles and Safety Integrity Levels - Discusses control and instrumentation systems deployed for the next generation of A-USC and IGCC plants



Advanced Power Plant Materials, Design and Technology

Author : Dermot Roddy

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 447 pages

File Size : 48,4 MB

Release : 2010-05-24

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1845699467

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Fossil-fuel power plants account for the majority of worldwide power generation. Increasing global energy demands, coupled with issues of ageing and inefficient power plants, have led to new power plant construction programmes. As cheaper fossil fuel resources are exhausted and emissions criteria are tightened, utilities are turning to power plants designed with performance in mind to satisfy requirements for improved capacity, efficiency, and environmental characteristics.Advanced power plant materials, design and technology provides a comprehensive reference on the state of the art of gas-fired and coal-fired power plants, their major components and performance improvement options. Part one critically reviews advanced power plant designs which target both higher efficiency and flexible operation, including reviews of combined cycle technology and materials performance issues.Part two reviews major plant components for improved operation, including advanced membrane technology for both hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) separation, as well as flue gas handling technologies for improved emissions control of sulphur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury, ash and particulates. The section concludes with coverage of high-temperature sensors, and monitoring and control technology that are essential to power plant operation and performance optimisation.Part three begins with coverage of low-rank coal upgrading and biomass resource utilisation for improved power plant fuel flexibility. Routes to improve the environmental impact are also reviewed, with chapters detailing the integration of underground coal gasification and the application of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage. Finally, improved generation performance is reviewed with coverage of syngas and hydrogen (H2) production from fossil-fuel feedstocks.With its distinguished international team of contributors, Advanced power plant materials, design and technology is a standard reference for all power plant engineers and operators, as well as to academics and researchers in this field. - Provides a comprehensive reference on the state-of-the-art gas-fired and coal-fired power plants, their major components and performance improvement options - Examines major plant components for improved operation as well as flue gas handling technologies for improved emissions control - Routes to improve environmental impact are discussed with chapters detailing the integration of underground coal gasification