9HX237380-003-001 - GED 20MW Process Description REV B PDF
9HX237380-003-001 - GED 20MW Process Description REV B PDF
9HX237380-003-001 - GED 20MW Process Description REV B PDF
POWER PLANT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Clause
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2.1
2.2
Design Life
2.3
Plant Operation
3.
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3.1
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3.1.1
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3.1.2
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3.1.3
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3.1.4
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3.1.5
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3.2.1
Boiler
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3.2.2
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3.2.3
Steam Turbine
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3.2.4
Steam Admission
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3.2.5
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3.2.6
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3.2
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3.3.1
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3.3.2
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3.4.1
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3.4.2
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3.4.3
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3.4.4
Condensate System
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3.4.5
Feedwater System
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3.4.6
Feedwater Deaeration
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3.4.7
Feedwater Pumps
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3.4.8
Blowdown
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3.5
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3.6
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3.7
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3.8
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3.9
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3.10
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3.10.1
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3.10.2
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3.3
3.4
3.7.1
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3.12
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3.13
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3.14
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3.14.1
General Description
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3.14.2
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The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the conceptual design of power
plant and description of process including functionality of major subsystems and the major
components utilized within the power plant.
This document does not intend to give a detailed technical description of all components within
the power plant with their design features and design considerations. For this level of detail we
refer to the individual design documents and calculations which will be issued throughout the
design phase of the power plants.
This document to reference with process flow diagram document No. 9HX237380-000-001
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Gulf Energy Development (GED) is planned to construct a 20 MW (net) power plant in Songkla
province of Thailand. The Power Plant shall produce net 20 MW electricity which will be
supplied under the SPP guidelines to the PEA Grid.
The Plant design is based on a configuration of one boiler, one steam turbine generator and
associated balance of plant. The following systems, major equipment and facilities are
envisaged:
Boiler.
Condensate System.
Electrostatic Precipitators.
Fuel receiving, processing, storage and fuel feeding system including mobile
equipment for fuel handling.
Raw Water System including River Intake System and Raw Water Pipeline.
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2.1
a)
Ambient Pressure
1,009
mbar
b)
32.8
deg C
c)
78
(2)
Ambient Temperature
a)
38.2
deg C
b)
19.7
deg C
c)
32.8
deg C
(3)
Relative Humidity
a)
90
b)
65
c)
77
(4)
Rainfall
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Annual Rainfall
1685
mm
b)
1 Hour Rainfall
85
mm
c)
15 Minute Rainfall
145
mm
(5)
38
m/s
(6)
Air Quality
Slightly saline
(7)
Site Level
TBA
(8)
Seismic Condition
(9)
Noise Level
(10)
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DPT.1302-52 and
ASCE7-05
< 85dB(A) at 1m from the
equipment
a)
Frequency
50
b)
Range of Frequency
-1 % to +1 %
c)
Motor power
(=> 200kW)
d)
Motor power
(< 200kW)
400/230 V, 3-phase
e)
Lighting
230 V, 1-phase
f)
Instrumentation
230 V, 1-phase
g)
(11)
a)
Hz
220 V DC
Motor
Protection Degree, Motor and Junction Box
IP 54 for Indoor
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IP 55 for outdoor
b)
Winding Insulation
Class F
c)
Temperature Rise
Class B
The Plant shall be designed for the full range of the ambient air conditions presented in this
table.
2.2
Design Life
Plant Operation
Overall, the operational strategy is to design and construct the Works for continuous operation.
During the normal operation, the plant is running mainly at base load in peak period and at
about 65% in off peak period (night time).
The works shall be designed for operation in excess of 8000 hours per year (availability
guarantee is given separately).
Even the works is expected to operate mainly on maximum load; it shall be possible to operate
the works continuously in all load points of the capacity between the minimum and maximum
loads.
During the design lifetime (200,000 hours), the works shall be designed to safe and efficient
start-up from hot, warm and cold conditions without exceeding permissible levels of stress
within components.
It is of utmost importance that the technical solutions used in the process shall secure energy
production in an environmentally safe way and with highest possible thermal efficiency.
The works shall be suitable for remote automatic /manual operation from a control room by
means of a proven microprocessor based, functionally grouped and hierarchically structured
control and information system (DCS). Full sequence control shall be provided to facilitate
automatic start up and shut down of the units and their auxiliary systems with minimum plant
attendance.
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Rubber wood stumps will be transported from the areas of plantation by trucks (provided by
others) to the site.
3.1.1
3.1.2
Each truck shall be weighed before and after the wood is unloaded.
It is expected that approximately 50 trucks will deliver fuel each day.
The facility will be open to accept deliveries seven days a week between the hours of 7
am and 7 pm.
Each truck can carry up to 20 metric tons of wood.
The facility shall suit weighing and unloading from a trailer truck.
Fuel Unloading and Storage
The fuel yard will be located within the Plants security fence with dedicated access. The wood
from the trucks shall be unloaded from trucks and stored in the open yard using mobile
equipment. The unloading and storage facility shall be purpose-built to suit the following
criteria:
3.1.3
The fuel yard shall be sized to hold the fuel required for 14 days with the boiler operating
at Maximum Continuous Rating.
The wood shall be stacked in a way that would allow natural drying.
The ground storing the tree stumps will be asphaltic concrete 50 mm thk. pavement.
The stock-piling arrangement will facilitate easy loading of stumps for cleaning.
The mobile equipment used for stacking and un-stacking will be fit for the requirements
stated above.
This facility will receive wood from the open storage yard and clean and process the wood to
produce chips meeting the fuel size specification. Stumps will be picked using mobile
equipment and be cut in smaller size before chipping. Raw wood will be fed by passing
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through disc screen to remove sand /stone before chipper. Then wood chipper will cut the raw
wood into specific chip size as processed wood chip and forwarded to processed fuel storage
area. Fuel processing facility shall be concrete pavement with roof shed at wood chipper to
protect from rain.
3.1.4
The processed fuel storage building shall be sized to hold a 3 days fuel supply to the boiler.
The wood chip will be stored in enclosed building to prevent contamination of fuel with soil,
rock or stones and rain. The building includes with natural roof ventilation for wood
dehumidification and prevents dust hazards. This area will be sized to contain fuel
requirements of the boil at MCR condition. This area may be divided into two sections to allow
storage and reclaiming simultaneously.
3.1.5
The wood chips will be reclaimed from the storage area and transferred to a reclaiming hopper
pit. The fuel hopper will be suitable for receiving wood chips from self-unloading trailers, dump
trucks, front-end loaders or conveyors. The fuel feeding system will be equipped with tramp
metal separators.
The wood chips from the reclaiming hopper will be conveyed to a surge silo from which wood
chips will be conveyed to a day bin which can store 6-hour fuel requirements of the boiler at
MCR conditions. The wood chips from the day bin will be metered and fed to the boiler by
screw feeders.
3.2
The entire system process flow is a complete system of water and steam recirculation
process.
The super-heated steam from boiler after heat exchanging enters into steam turbine to drive
turbine and generator to generate power. The steam after driving turbine will be cooled down
into water in the condenser. The feed water will enter into boilers economizers for heating up
through feed water pump. The high temperature water after heating up economizer. Feed
water then mixes with the saturated liquid in the steam drum and the steam/water mixture
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rising from the generating circuits and enters into the steam turbines. Consumed water can be
made up by the demineralized water from demineralizer at circulation process.
3.2.1
Boiler
Boilers are pressure vessels designed to produce high pressure steam in which water under
pressure is transformed into steam by the application of heat. In the boiler furnace, the
chemical energy in the fuel is converted into heat, and it is the function of the boiler to transfer
this heat to the contained water in the most efficient manner.
A boiler to absorb the maximum amount of heat released in the process of combustion. This
heat is transferred to the boiler water through radiation, conduction and convection.
The rubber wood fuel is transferred into the combustion system by biomass feeding. From the
combustion system the hot gasses pass through the boiler and super heater for heat energy
transfer.
Steam is fed form the collecting steam drum to the steam turbine generator. The turbine turns
a generator through a reduction gear set. Exhaust steam is condensed and routed through the
boiler feed water systems and then pumped to the economizer.
Refer to Technical Specification for Rubber Wood Fired Boiler.
3.2.2
From the boilers, the main steam with the main steam supply will go through the main steam
pipe and the main steam stop valve, and the governor main valve before entering the steam
turbine.
In order to achieve convenient normal operation and emergency start and stop there is a main
steam bypass system and piping. When the pressure exceeds the settling value of the main
steam governor valve, it will automatically open partly and the excessive steam can directly
enter into the main condenser, to keep the pressure of turbine inlet constantly. After the Desuperheater the steam pipe is connected to the condenser.
3.2.3
Steam Turbine
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Steam Admission
The HP steam enters the HP turbine by one HP Steam inlet line. At the inlet of the steam
turbine a main stream stop valve is installed to interrupt the steam supply in case of a steam
turbine trip.
3.2.5
For sealing purposes of the steam turbine, HP steam from the common HP steam line is
supplied to the steam turbine glands during start-up/shut-down. During low load operation the
sealing steam is supplied by the steam turbine bleed (extraction) steam system. The sealing
steam is controlled at a slight over-pressure by a pressure reducing control valve. The vacuum
side of the steam turbine glands is kept at a pressure below atmospheric by one (1) 100%
ejector steam condenser. The gland steam is condensed in the ejector steam condenser by
the main condensate water and the drain is fed to condenser hot well.
3.2.6
The vacuum in the condenser is being established and maintained by the ejector steam
system. The initial vacuum is being established by the startup ejector. After initial vacuum the
normal ejector will take over and will establish the operational vacuum pressure.
3.2.7
The condenser is horizontally arranged water cooled surface type to transfer heat from ST
Exhaust steam to the cooling water to condensate the steam coming out of the steam turbine.
Also steam turbine bypass valves lines are connected to exhaust transmission duct between
ST exhaust and condenser to condense the steam in the condenser during start up, shutdown
and emergency case. A condenser LP flash box to collect ST starting drains is installed. A
condensate water recirculation pipe to keep minimum flow rate through the condensate
extraction pumps is connected to the condenser.
A demin water make-up line is connected to the condenser hot well to make up for the losses
of the water/steam cycle. These losses consist of start-up losses, Boiler blowdown losses or
export steam condensate return losses in case the export steam condensate is off
specification.
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A steam turbine bypass system is incorporated in the design to maximize operation and start
up flexibility of the plant. The proposed capacity of the turbine bypass valve is 60% of the main
steam flow at the boilers maximum continuous rating. The bypass system will be operated in
the following cases:
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Start-up and shutdown after vacuum has been established in the steam turbine
condenser.
High pressure at the inlet of the steam turbine in the steam lines.
Each individual bypass system consists of a steam stop valve, a pressure reducing station and
spray water control valve and spray station (integrated in the pressure control valve).
Downstream of the spray station a temperature transmitter is installed to alarm in case of
malfunction of the spray station. The water for the spray station is taken from the main
condensate line, immediately downstream of the condensate pumps.
3.3.2
When the power plant is started from cold conditions no vacuum can be established in the
system turbine condenser. In order to assure steam flow through the Boiler systems and
prevent overheating of the boiler tubes, a HP start up vent valve is installed in the HP steam
lines. The start-up vent valves will be used during initial warm up and these valves will control
the pressurization of the Boiler HP systems until the steam turbine condenser has established
vacuum and the bypass stations have been released for control. When the bypass stations
have been released for control, the start-up vent vales will be closed and the bypass station
takes over the pressurization of the boiler systems.
3.4
The overall objective of boiler feed water treatment is generally to reduce the hardness, the
silica or the total dissolved salts concentration in the feed water. Because the processes that
achieve this, (for example ion exchange) can themselves be fouled by some raw water
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contaminants, it is normally also necessary to pre-treat the raw water before it enters the boiler
feed water treatment system. Typically, the treatment processes are required to remove the
following types of contaminants:
The water treatment plant consists of pre-treatment and a demineralization plant to treat raw
water to the quality required by the boiler.
Raw water first flows into conventional clarifiers. The clarified water will be stored in a clarified
water tank and will be used as process water and feed to the demineralization plant. For the
production of demineralization water, the clarified water will be pumped to a sand filter for
removal of residual suspended solids and to the granular activated carbon filter for removal of
organic constituents.
Dissolved solids are removed by the demineralization plant. Demineralization plant consists of
cationic and anionic exchangers. Demineralized water is further polished by mixed bed
exchangers before been stored in the demineralized water storage tank. The consumers of the
demin water are:
-The condenser for cycle make-up.
-Deaerator.
-Boiler chemical dosing skid.
-Closed cooling water head tank for CCW system.
-Laboratory and regen water by demineralized water pumps.
The regular consumer is the condenser make up system where the steam cycle losses adding
demin water to the condenser. Other consumers are minor.
3.4.1
Raw water is drawn from the river situated from the plant.
2x100% raw water intake pumps are provided to extract the water from the river to a raw water
pond via a pipeline. The raw water is pumped into clarifier from the raw water pond. Raw water
is used for firefighting. Fire water pumps discharge raw water to the firewater ring main.
3.4.2
A service water distribution system is provided in the Plant. Water from the raw water pretreatment plant is used for service water. The output of the pre-treatment plant is stored in the
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service water tank 2 x 100% Service water pumps supply service water for washing and
cleaning purposes in the plant. 2 x 100% Make-up water pumps supply make-up water to the
cooling tower.
3.4.3
A potable water system is provided to supply water for drinking and eye wash showers. The
principal methods of disinfection are irradiation by ultra-violet light. Ultraviolet (UV) light kills
micro-organisms by short-wave light that destroys their molecular structure.
3.4.4
Condensate System
The turbine exhaust steam flows to a shell and tube condenser vessel where heat is rejected
via cooling water flowing through the tubes. Condensing steam collects in the bottom of the
condenser vessel the hotwell. The Condenser hotwell forms a reservoir for the condensate
extraction pumps. Various flows from the steam and water circuit (e.g. gland steam, turbine
drains, CEP min flow, etc) are returned to the condenser to conserve heat and prevent water
leakage from the system. No condenser tube cleaning system is proposed as the cooling
water is clarified river water and is chemically dosed to prevent biological growth and scaling.
Condensate is pumped from the Condenser to the Deaerator by 2 x 100% Condensate
Extraction Pumps, via a Gland Steam Condenser and Low Pressure Heater. The LP Heater is
a shell and tube heat exchanger which obtains steam from the steam turbine. The condensate
from the LP Heater is drained to the Condenser. The gland steam condenser is a shell and
tube heat exchanger which collects and condenses the gland steam from the turbine seals.
A vacuum skid extracts air from the condenser during start-up, and helps to maintain
condenser vacuum during operation. The vacuum in the condenser is established and
maintained by the steam ejectors.
3.4.5
Feedwater System
3.4.6
Feedwater Deaeration
The system consists of a feedwater deaerator and feedwater tank. It has the following tasks:
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Buffer tank for compensating the relatively short-time mass flow fluctuations between
feed water demand and condensate return flow (start-up of the plant or steam turbine
trip, process condensate losses),
Deaeration of the returned condensate and make-up feedwater, i.e. expulsion of
entrapped oxygen and other non-condensable gases,
Feedwater heating.
The water level in the deaerator is automatically regulated by the plant control system.
The design uses sprays of steam and bubbles of steam in the water to extend the steam water
interface and achieve the necessary steam/water contact. Steam is supplied from the turbine
bleed while condensate is supplied from the steam turbine condenser via the LP feedwater
heaters.
3.4.7
Feedwater Pumps
The feedwater pump extracts the deaerated feedwater from the feedwater storage tank and
feeds it to the economiser. A minimum flow device is provided to ensure a minimum flow
through the pump under conditions of minimum or no-flow of feedwater to the boiler.
The drum level of the boiler is kept at a constant value by the feedwater control valve ahead of
the boiler inlet by three-element control.
The multi-stage boiler feed pumps (2 x 100%) complete with leak-off valves, gauges, guards
and couplings will be supplied. Each pump will be provided with a constant speed electric
drive. The pumps are of horizontal, multistage, segment casing design held together by high
tensile tie-bolts.
3.4.8
Blowdown
Boiler water quality is maintained by operation of the continuous and intermittent blowdown
valves. A Blowdown Vessel is provided to receive continuous blowdown. Also, all boiler drains
are connected to blow down tank.
3.5
Electrostatic Precipitators are proposed for fly ash extraction. The gases enter the ESP
horizontally via the inlet, where the gas velocity is evened out over the whole ESP section by
means of a gas distribution system. The ID fan is installed after the ESP.
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On the application of high current, the dust particles are separated on the collecting plate
when passing through the inter electrode spacings.
Both the electrode and the discharge electrode system are cleaned by mechanical, electricmotor driven rapping devices and thus kept clean. By means of these periodically operating
rapping devices, which are freely programmable for each field with regard to operating and
interval time, the dust is hence loosened due to the shearing forces and falls into the hopper.
3.6
Handling of ash is basically divided into wet bottom ash, dry fly ash. Bottom ash is the material
that is collected beneath the furnace or combustion chamber while fly ash is typically fine dry
ash particles that are suspended in the flue gas and collected at various points downstream of
combustion flue gas path.
The furnace ash handling is a wet system while ash and dust from the economiser/airheater
and emission control is handled by a dry system. Furnace bottom ash falls into the waste
water pit bottom onto a water submerged conveyor that continuously discharges the ash form
the furnace.
A submerged conveyor in circulating water is used to:
-
Provide an air-tight seal in the furnace that protects the furnace from air infiltration
Lower the temperature of wet ash for convenient disposal external to the boiler
Whilst the dust from the air heater, economiser and ESPs is chain or belt conveyed to an ash
storage silo for disposal by a truck.
3.7
3.7.1
One high pressure chemical dosing unit is included, for the intermittent injection of scale
inhibitor chemical to the steam drum, and two low pressure pumps for dosing oxygen
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scavenger and ammonia. The dosing system includes pumps, mixing tank (or bulky bins),
agitator, instruments and associated valves.
3.8
The dosing system for the circulating water consists of hypochlorate dosing for preventing
biological growth and Acid pH Control.
3.9
The compressed air system comprises of an instrument air system and service air system.
2x100% capacity compressors (1 x duty, 1 x standby) supply air to one air receivers operating
in parallel, sized for a five minutes uninterrupted supply of instrument air.
Compressed air from the air receivers passes through two sets of coarse filters meeting the
required service air quality. A common air header from the air receivers supplies air to both the
instrument air header and the service air header.
Service air is taken directly from the common air header with an actuated isolation valve to
isolate the service air header from the instrument air header in event of pressure drop or
fluctuation.
Instrument air only is then passed through the refrigerant type air dryer and two sets of
secondary (fine) filters to remove any condensed liquids, particulates and oil vapours to
ensure air provided is of instrument air quality.
3.10
3.10.1
The cooling water system is delivering the cooling water to turbine condenser to cool down the
exhaust steam into condensate water, the system is a closed circuit system, the cold water
from goes to the condenser, after cooling process the water is going back to the cooling tower
after temperature rise, where the temperature of the hot water is cooled down to certain level
for continuing the process. Cooling tower water source is taking from raw water pre-treatment
system.
An induced-draught mechanical wet cooling tower system transfers the waste heat of the
water-steam cycle to the atmosphere. The cooling tower consists of two (2) separate cells.
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Two (2) x 50% main cooling water pumps supply the cold water from the cooling tower water
basin to main condenser.
The cooling water quality is controlled by water blowdown through the cooling tower blow
down valve. In the main cooling water supply line a pH and a conductivity analyzer are
installed for on line monitoring of the cooling water quality. The conductivity measurement is
used for the control of the cooling water blow down valve against the conductivity setpoint
given by the operator. The pH meter is used for the control loop for dosing acid to control the
pH value of the Main Cooling Water.
3.10.2
The main circulating water pumps direct the cooling water to the condenser and the auxiliary
coolers. 2X100% Auxiliary Cooling Water Pumps operate in closed cycle supplying clean,
treated cooling water to the following auxiliary equipment. The auxiliary cooling water pumps
work in a so called duty/standby arrangement. The stand-by pump will start in case of
electrical failures or cooling water pump outlet pressure decreases to certain level.
As the name the closed cooling water system is a separated closed loop system.
The closed cooling water (CCW) system is cooling the following components:
3.11
Waste water from the demineralization plant is combined with drain from boiler blowdown tank
before being routed to a waste water pond.
Within the power plant a 313.2 m3/day waste water pond has been constructed.
This pond collects all waste water streams. These streams are:
- Waste water from Demin plant neutralization basin.
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The power plant is equipped with a fire fighting system. For safety and reliable this system
necessary to have the fire water pumps which the purpose. The following pumps have been
installed within the power plant:
- 1 x 100% jockey pump to maintain the pressure in the system.
- 1 x 100% electric motor driven fire water pump.
- 1 x 100% diesel engine driven fire water pump.
The pumps draw their water directly from the raw water pond which sufficient to serve the
highest fire scenario according NFPA 850(highest water demand volume plus 1 set hydrant
operating)
The firefighting water is distributed over the power plant through a ring main pipe distribution
network to the outdoor hydrant stations, the deluge water spray system shall be provide for
main transformers switch yard area , Auxiliary Transformer ,Steam Bearing and fuel oil tank
respectively. The fire hose cabinet shall be provided for indoor building. The firefighting system
is monitored by link the signal from each local panel of fire pump via to the Main Fire Alarm
Control Panel (FACP) which is installed in the control room. The FACP also monitors the
smoke and heat detectors installed at different locations and alarms when a detector is
activated.
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To ensure the safe and economic operation of biomass boilers and steam turbine generators
and to monitor and control the waste gas, waste water. A testing laboratory shall be set up in
the plant for chemical analysis and a steam-water online analysis sampling device shall also
be set up. All online analysis devices can convert measured data into 4-20mA standard
signals which shall be sent to the computers in central control room, to facilitate operators'
routing inspection and recording & printing.
The chemical condition of the steam and feedwater system is monitored on-line by means of
the following samples:
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General Description
The plant control system operates under all conditions such as normal power operation, cold
and warm start-up, load rejection, island operation, and shutdown in automatic mode or
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manually controlled by the operators at operator workstations in the Central Control Room
(CCR).
All open loop and closed loop control systems or process control stations are based on
distributed digital control with built-in redundancy and interconnected via a redundant high
speed bus system(s).
A redundancy provides for the process and/or instrumentation is considered in DCS to further
improve overall system availability.
The single failure criteria are applied. This means that a single failure in any part of the DCS is
not lead to a trip of a plant main component, e.g. GT or ST or Generator, etc. or the plant itself.
Closed loop and open loop controls, as well as protective interlocks of all Power Plant
equipment is implemented in the Distributed Control System (DCS) and in the specific
packaged plant control system.
Exhaust stack emissions are monitored through EPA/CARB certified continuous emissions
monitoring system (CEMS). Emissions monitored include: Sulfur dioxide (SO2), Oxides of
Nitrogen (NOx), Oxygen (O2), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Carbon dioxide (CO2), opacity and
Particulates.
3.14.2
Overall Distributed Control System DCS for the whole power producing process
including its sub-systems.
Providing all data required for operation, maintenance, and performance optimization.
Start-up and shut-down of the plant in automatic sequence (unit controller). The unit
controller allows an automatic start-up/shut-down of the plant by means of sequencers.
The sequencer monitor all of "permissive to start parameters" to allow the plant startup. These "ready for start-up conditions" include appropriate feedbacks yielded with
some manual operations executed locally and with equipment in service to permit its
automatic start-up. Some mode selections made on VDU screens prior to plant start-up
(i.e. automatic or parallel with electric grid, cold or warm start-up, etc.) to activate the
type of start-up sequence (manual, semi-auto with operator consents to proceed or
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fully automatically).
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Functional groups i.e. sequence control for Steam turbine, Boiler, Water/Steam-Cycle,
Balance of Plant and Electrical Equipment, etc.
Plant coordination level (droop/isochronous mode, load rejection recover, island mode,
etc.).
Process control level (level control, temperature control, pressure control, etc.).
Single control valve 1drive level (position control, speed control, etc.).