Experiment No -1 Power Plants

Name: _ Abdul Fatir Khan _ Regd. No._ 2015-ME-93 __ Date: _ 29/01/2019 _

Objective:

Visit to Mini Steam Turbine Power Plant (Model PC-TMS-400A)

Theory:

Fig.1: Block Diagram of Mini Steam Turbine Power Plant

There are a multiple of components attached to the whole system of steam turbine power plant. A
few of them have been explained in the section below:

1. Boiler:
It is a vessel in which fuels are burnt to convert water or any other type of liquid into
superheated steam or vapours respectively. Primarily it can be divided into two types which
is the fire tube and water tube boilers. This classification is utterly based on the medium
present inside the tubes of boiler. It utilizes both latent and sensible heat content. One can
say that without a boiler, a thermal power plant can not exist at the first place.

2. Calorimeter:
This instrument functions to determine the amount of heat involved in a particular process.
In the power plant mentioned above, a throttling calorimeter is used. This type of
calorimeter consists of an orifice. When steam passes through the condenser and heat
 exchanger components, the pressure and temperature are measured by thermometer and
pressure gauge.

3. Superheater:
The primary purpose of this device is to generate dry steam from wet steam. It provides
further heat to the steam in order to make it superheated. It utilizes only the sensible heat
content for increase in temperature.

4. Condenser:
Under the norms of the subject of heat transfer, a condenser is a device that converts matter
from gaseous state to liquid state. It functions with the extraction of latent heat from the
gaseous.matter.

5. Generator Turbine Mechanism:

This mechanism will convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with the help of
mechanical drives that consist of a generator and turbine. A pump is placed at the end of
the condenser to suck the steam that was used to drive the mechanical drive back to the
boiler.

Rankine Cycle:
Fig.2 Components of Rankine Cycle

Fig.3: Rankine Cycle Illstration