Chapter 5

Conclusion
-The standard efficiency of Bahri thermal power plant is in the range between
33% and 36%. Based on the calculations made taking into account PH2 data,
the efficiency of the steam unit was 29.368 %. Its obvious that the actual
efficiency is less than the standard one due to the old plant service life
-Referring to para. 4.1.3 its found that heat soaking used the firing in the lowest
Rate is better than the on/off method because of avoiding the thermal shock
stresses.

-when speaking of plant efficiency, we must be aware of two things:
1. Trade off: is increasing the efficiency of an equipment inside the steam station
on the expense of efficiency of another equipment. For example, in the boiler
when the excess air is significantly increased, it will lead to higher steam
temperature exiting the boiler to the turbine, resulting in increasing the turbine
cycle efficiency, but it will reduce the boiler efficiency.
2. Cascade effect: when theres insufficient heating in last FWH , this will result
in cooler FW entering the boiler and that way comes the need to fire harder to
bring the water to its boiling temperature which leads to flue gases temperature
rise and increase the attemperation rate which will affect the both turbine and
boiler efficiency.
-We conclude that when improving of steam unit efficiency we should take into
consideration the trade off and the cascade effect. In other words, the efficiency
improvement of an equipment should be in the range where it doesnt affect other
equipments efficiencies.

Challenges that facing improvement opportunities:
1. Difficulty to make changes or improvement in a running plant.
2. Need to take shutdown of the plant.
3. Performance improvement techniques requires skilled persons.
4. Efficient improvement tools are very costly and requires 1 to 2 years to cover
their price.
5. its a lengthy process requires more time for installation of the performance
and efficiency system.