Steam Production in Fossil Fuel Power Plants

Performance Test Codes for Engineers Worldwide

ASME PTC 4
ASME PTC 4.3
ASME PTC 11

ASME PTC 4.2

ASME PTC 12.1

These Performance Test Codes are critical in determining the

performance of equipment associated with the production of steam
in a power plant, providing valuable assistance for contractual
agreements.
A major component of a fossil fuel power plant is the steam
generator.
PTC 4, Fired Steam Generators is used to determine performance
characteristics of a steam generator. These characteristics include
efficiency, output, capacity, exit flue gas and entering air
temperature, excess air, calcium-to-sulfur molar ratio, fuel, air, and
flue gas flow rates, unburned carbon and unburned carbon loss.
Determining these performance characteristics are important,
because actual performance can be compared to guaranteed
performance, comparing different conditions or methods of
operation, determining the specific performance of individual parts
or components, comparing performance when firing an alternate
fuel, and determining the effects of equipment modifications. The
current edition was published 2008 and a revision is in the works.
The auxiliary equipment in a steam generator fossil fuel plant
includes, air heaters, fans, coal pulverizers and feedwater heaters.
These components are important in ensuring the operation of the
steam generators.
PTC 4.3, Air Heaters applies to all air heaters used in industrial
applications, such as steam generators and industrial furnaces. It
specifically includes combustion gas-to-air heat exchanger,
including air heaters with multi-section air streams, and air
preheater coils utilizing non-condensing (single phase) steam,
water, or other hot fluids.

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ASME PTC 4-2008, Fired Steam Generators

ISBN: 9780791831380
No. pages: 292
Price: $240.00 USD
Digital (PDF) / Order No.: C0250Q
Print-Book / Order No.: C02508

ASME PTC 4.3-1968, Air Heaters

No. pages: 31
Price: $50.00 USD
Digital (PDF) / Order No.: D0003Q

ASME PTC 11-2008, Fans

ISBN: 9780791831526
No. pages: 176
Price: $125.00 USD
Digital (PDF) / Order No.: C0520Q
Print-Book / Order No.: C05208

ASME PTC 4.2-1969, Coal Pulverizers

No. pages: 26
Price: $80.00 USD
Digital (PDF) / Order No.: C0000Q

ASME PTC 12.1-2000, Closed Feedwater Heaters

ISBN: 0791826422
No. pages: 92
Price: $150.00 USD
Digital (PDF) / Order No.: C0130P
Print-Book / Order No.: C01300

PTC 4.3, Air Heaters (contd)

This Test Code on air heaters and preheaters provides procedures
for conducting performance tests to determine the air heater exitgas temperature, air-to-gas leakage, fluid pressure losses, and fluid
temperatures. It also provides procedures to determine the heat
capacity ratio [X-Ratio] and any or all of the performance results
specified above that may be necessary for checking actual
performance against specified performance, comparing changes in
performance over time with specified performance, comparing
performance under various operating conditions, and determining
the effect of changes in equipment.
PTC 11, Fans is primarily used to test fans after they have been
installed in the systems for which they were intended. The types of
fans include centrifugal, axial, and mixed flow types. This Test
Code provides the rules for testing fans to determine performance
under actual operating conditions, provides additional rules for
converting measured performance to that which would prevail under
specified operating conditions, and provides methods for comparing
measured or converted performance to specified performance. It is
used to determine fan mass flow rate, or alternatively, fan volume
flow rate, fan-specific energy, or alternatively, fan pressure, and fan
input power. This Test Code can also be used to determine gas
properties at the fan inlet, fan speed, fan output power,
compressibility coefficient, fan efficiency, and inlet flow conditions.
PTC 4.2, Coal Pulverizors establishes procedures for conducting
performance tests of coal pulverizers to determine capacity,
fineness of product, and raw coal feed, including grindability,
moisture, and mixing. This Test Code applies to the pulverizing
system as a whole, including all the component parts necessary to
take the raw coal, hot air and tempering air at the system inlet, and
deliver pulverized coal in proper mixture with air and/or flue gas at
the desired temperature at the outlet of the system. It applies to the
two most commonly used systems: Direct Fired System and
Storage System.
PTC 12.1, Closed Feedwater Heaters provides procedures,
direction, and guidance for determining the performance of a closed
feedwater heater with regard to terminal temperature difference;
drain cooler approach; temperature; tube side (feedwater) pressure
loss through the heater; shell-side pressure loss through the
desuperheating zone, and through the drain cooling zone. This
Test Code applies to all horizontal and vertical heaters except those
with partial pass drain cooling zones. A feedwater heater is
designed to accomplish heat transfer between fluids. The heater
design is based on a specific operating condition that includes flow,
temperature, and pressure. This specific condition constitutes the
design point that is found on the manufacturer's feedwater heater
specification sheet. It is not feasible to expect that the test will be
conducted at the design point. Therefore, it is necessary to predict
the heater performance by adjusting the design parameters for the
test conditions. Methods of calculating the predicted heater
performance are presented in this Test Code. These predicted
values shall then be compared to corresponding measured.
Intended for equipment and systems test engineers, instrument
engineers, industrial and power plant engineers, manufacturers of
boilers, coal pulverizers, fans, and feedwater heaters, instrument
manufacturers, A/E firms, and third-party testing agencies.

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