Combined Cycle Power Plant - By: Rohit chhibber

The term ‘Combined Cycle Power Plant’ defines as the combination of the steam turbine generator(s) (Rankine cycle) and the gas turbine generator(s) (Brayton cycle) with turbine exhaust waste heat boiler(s) to capture the energy for the production of the electric power. If the steam from the waste heat boilers used for space heating process then the term co generator is the more appropriate word for this.

Simple cycle gas turbine generators, used as the independent electric power producers are really inefficient with the heat rates of the load of over 15,000 Btu per kilowatt-hour. Simple cycle gas turbine generators are the part of the Combined Cycle Power Plant, which you have to take a training to know the details of the power plant very well. Combined Cycle Power Plant training is the way to get the all details with the various plants in built in it.

A fossil fuel-fired power plant, which is in the center of the Combined Cycle Power Plant, used either the combustion turbines or the steams to provide the mechanical power into the electrical generators. High temperature pressurized steam expands through the various stages of the turbine, transferring this energy to the rotating turbine blades.

Steam turbine power plant, which is, operates on the Rankine cycle of the Combined Cycle Operation. The boiler will create the steam, where the pure water passes in the series of the tubes to capture the heat from firebox and after that boils under the high pressure to superheated the steam. The firebox heat is provided by the burning fossil fuel like fuel oil, natural gas, coal etc. The heat can also be provided by solar energy, biomass or nuclear fuel.

The superheated steam then enters the steam turbine throttle where it connected generator to make electricity. The heat from the condensing steam is then rejected normally from the condenser to the body of the water, such as a river or cooling tower. Steam turbine plants have the history of energy achieving the 95% and easily can operate more than a year.

Combustion turbine plants operate on the Brayton cycle one of the part of the Combined Cycle Operation and the training need to taken under this total combustion cycle to know the cycle much more better. Combined Cycle Operator Training is not so easy to take and it needs time to learn practically about the whole matter. Combustion turbines are available also for burning a wide range of liquid and the gaseous fuels from the crude oil to the natural gas.

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