Power Genearation

[E9]

I work in a manufacturing industry where we want to run the generator through 1MW steam turbine. Can someone provide any online refernece or link using which I can backwork and calculate the steam required and other inputs for turbine. (or alternatively we may have the idea of the boiler required for producing the reqd. steam). Thanks.

 

[davefitz]

E9

Typically in a mfr process you would first look to see if there are any waste heat sources avaialble to provide "free" energy to generate the steam , and then size the steam turbine to produce as much power as the onsite waste heat source could make.

Building your own 1 MWe power plant from scratch using normal fuels ( oil, nat gas) is rarely as competitive as buying it from a utility- large gas fired combined cycle plants now are over 50% efficient- it is unlikely you could match that unless you can also use exhaust steam to heat part of the existing manufacturing process .

Better areas would be- reduce energy losses ( reactance , etc)

 

[rmw]

Our esteemed colleague Katmar has a free software that will help you with steam turbine calculations.

It can be found at:

http://www.katmarsoftware.com/?referrer=TurbinePgm

Another helpful link is:

http://steamcalc.dresser-rand.com/

I have used them both extensively but not recently enough to remember what the differences are.

Hope those help.

rmw