TY  - JOUR
TT  - PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A STEAM TURBINE POWER PLANT AT PART LOAD CONDITIONS
AU  - Karakurt, A. Sinan
AU  - Gunes, Umit
PY  - 2017
DA  - April
DO  - 10.18186/thermal.298611
JF  - Journal of Thermal Engineering
PB  - Yildiz Technical University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2148-7847
SP  - 1121
EP  - 1128
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
KW  - Off design conditions
KW  - thermal efficiency
KW  - isentropic efficiency
KW  - power plant
KW  - steam turbine
N2  - Power consumption highlyincreases which is related with the growing of the industrial plants and dailyusing. Increasing power demand can be supplied with building up more efficientplants or optimized old power plants. One of the most important items of apower plant is steam turbine which is designed according to defined parameters(inlet pressure and temperature, flow rates, outlet pressure and power) whichalso effect the dimensions and performance of the turbine. Turbine loses andirreversibilities are minimum and so efficiencies and power generation aremaximum at design conditions. However, power plants always have to operate atoff-design or part-load conditions because of the changing of power demands anddrop outs of the turbines and other items of the plants. In this study, it isaimed to analyses the isentropic efficiency of a high pressure steam turbineand thermal efficiency of power plant at different load conditions. Analysesshowed that both steam turbines and power plant performance were reduced whenthe power plant operates at partial load conditions.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.18186/thermal.298611
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/284400
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