Thermal Power Plant Designs

Designs for conventional power plants Design for SMRs

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Standard coal power plant design

1. Cooling Tower 2. Cooling water pump 3. Three-phase transmission line 4. Step-up Transformer 5. Electrical generator 6. Low pressure steam turbine 7. Condensate pump 8. Surface condenser 9. Intermediate pressure steam turbine 10. Steam control valve 11. High pressure steam turbine 12. Deaerator 13. Feedwater heater 14. Coal conveyor 15. Coal hopper/silo 16. Coal pulverizer 17. Boiler steam drum 18. Bottom ash hopper 19. Superheater 20. Forced draft fan 21. Reheater 22. Combustion air intake 23. Economiser 24. Air preheater 25. Precipitator 26. Induced draft fan 27. Flue gas stack

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Coal power plant boiler

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Gas turbine combined cycle

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Detailed gas turbine combined cycle

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Hydropower

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Diesel engine power plant

20MW unit

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The largest Diesel engine in the world

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What is the power of this engine ? 50MWe

Nuclear Power Plant

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Small Modular Reactors (SMR)

125MWe reactor

Babcock and Wilcox design

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Los Alamos National Lab SMR Design

Lifetime 10 years. Coolant PbBi

50M$ 70MW (25MWe)

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Quiz 8: Question 1
What AC currents correspond to the position of the magnetic field in this three phase generator ? A. B. C. D. E.
Magnetic field I

A B C D E
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Quiz 8: Question 2
A 100% efficient transformer has a turn ratio N1/N2=50. The primary current is 100A. How much current is in the secondary circuit? A. B. C. D. E. 2A 500A 10A 3kA 5kA

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Quiz 8: Question 3
A PV cell has an area of 100 cm2. The solar power it receives is 400 W/m2. The photon conversion efficiency is 25%. The PV cell temperature is 40C. The PV voltage Vd is 740 mV. The diode leakage current I0 is 1pA. Find the output power of the PV cell ?

A. B. C. D. E.
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114 mW 214 mW 314 mW 414 mW 514 mW

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Quiz 8: Question 4
A PV cell has an area of 100 cm2. The solar power it receives is 400 W/m2. The PV voltage Vd is 740 mV. The output current of the PV cell is 559 mA. What is the PV cell total efficiency ?

A. B. C. D. E.
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9.3% 10.3% 11.3% 12.3% 13.3%

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