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2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering

Leakages in steam lines or equipment within a steam power plant might not be costly during the days when fuel price was low. However, with the recent escalating price of fossil fuel, the additional cost to make up for the loss in energy caused by steam leakage may be very significant. Even small lea...

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Main Authors: Sulaiman, Shaharin Anwar, Choi , Yee Xiong, Chin, Yee Sing, Ahmad Majdi , Abdul Rani
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Published: 2008
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TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4013/1/EnCon_SAS_Steam_123.pdf
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spelling my.utp.eprints.40132017-01-19T08:26:45Z 2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering Sulaiman, Shaharin Anwar Choi , Yee Xiong Chin, Yee Sing Ahmad Majdi , Abdul Rani TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Leakages in steam lines or equipment within a steam power plant might not be costly during the days when fuel price was low. However, with the recent escalating price of fossil fuel, the additional cost to make up for the loss in energy caused by steam leakage may be very significant. Even small leakages, if added up together, may affect the plant’s operational cost. As a result, the heat rate of a plant increases and therefore plant operators have no choice but to continuously find ways to minimize leakages besides other means of optimizing plant operations. Quantifying the effect of steam leakage on heat rate is very difficult considering the huge size of a steam power plant, which can comprise numerous sources of leakages. Furthermore, an attempt to conduct an experiment in an industrial steam power plant may interrupt the operation and affect the power supply availability. Due to these limitations, the present work intends to simulate by the effect of steam losses through leakage to the heat rate of a plant. The study is conducted by an experiment using a lab scale steam power plant with a maximum output power capacity of 5-kW. The steam leakage is simulated by discharging steam systematically at a selected pipe location within the steam circuit of the plant. The results show that every one percent increase in steam leakage may increase the heat rate by as high as six percent. 2008 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4013/1/EnCon_SAS_Steam_123.pdf Sulaiman, Shaharin Anwar and Choi , Yee Xiong and Chin, Yee Sing and Ahmad Majdi , Abdul Rani (2008) 2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering. In: 2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering Infrastructures Development & Management, December 18 -19, 2008, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4013/
institution Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Sulaiman, Shaharin Anwar
Choi , Yee Xiong
Chin, Yee Sing
Ahmad Majdi , Abdul Rani
2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering
description Leakages in steam lines or equipment within a steam power plant might not be costly during the days when fuel price was low. However, with the recent escalating price of fossil fuel, the additional cost to make up for the loss in energy caused by steam leakage may be very significant. Even small leakages, if added up together, may affect the plant’s operational cost. As a result, the heat rate of a plant increases and therefore plant operators have no choice but to continuously find ways to minimize leakages besides other means of optimizing plant operations. Quantifying the effect of steam leakage on heat rate is very difficult considering the huge size of a steam power plant, which can comprise numerous sources of leakages. Furthermore, an attempt to conduct an experiment in an industrial steam power plant may interrupt the operation and affect the power supply availability. Due to these limitations, the present work intends to simulate by the effect of steam losses through leakage to the heat rate of a plant. The study is conducted by an experiment using a lab scale steam power plant with a maximum output power capacity of 5-kW. The steam leakage is simulated by discharging steam systematically at a selected pipe location within the steam circuit of the plant. The results show that every one percent increase in steam leakage may increase the heat rate by as high as six percent.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Sulaiman, Shaharin Anwar
Choi , Yee Xiong
Chin, Yee Sing
Ahmad Majdi , Abdul Rani
author_facet Sulaiman, Shaharin Anwar
Choi , Yee Xiong
Chin, Yee Sing
Ahmad Majdi , Abdul Rani
author_sort Sulaiman, Shaharin Anwar
title 2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering
title_short 2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering
title_full 2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering
title_fullStr 2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering
title_full_unstemmed 2nd Engineering Conference on Sustainable Engineering
title_sort 2nd engineering conference on sustainable engineering
publishDate 2008
url http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4013/1/EnCon_SAS_Steam_123.pdf
http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4013/
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