Course Content
Training course attendees will learn about plant efficiency through class room delivery, covering the following topics:
- What is efficiency?
- Why is efficiency important?
- What makes a Combined Cycle more efficient?
- How to go about improving efficiency
- Efficiency of the gas turbine
- Compressor efficiency
- Combustion efficiency
- Turbine efficiency
- Turbine overall efficiency
- Overall efficiency of the gas turbine
- Improving performance
- Compressor inlet pressure drop
- Firing temperature optimisation
- The efficiency of the steam cycle
- Heat supplied to each boiler
- What is heat rate?
- Back pressure loss
- What are the problems with air cooled condensers?
- What are the problems with water cooled condensers?
- Make-up loss
- Final steam temperature
- CO2 in flue gas
- Works power
- Costs of losses from target