Digital prototyping and simulation of DG boiler feedwater pump

Author(s):  
Guijun Wu ◽  
Xiuli Guo
JTAM ROTARY ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Yanuar Iswahyudi

Pada Desember 2016 hingga Januari 2017, terjadi penurunan kinerja PLTU Asam Asam Unit 3 yang signifikan dalam penyediaan tenaga listrik. Hal ini dikarenakan adanya permasalahan pada Boiler Feedwater Pump (BFP) 3B. Kemudian masalah harus diselesaikan oleh Turbin dan Kru Pemeliharaan Tambahan dengan beberapa perbaikan. Perbaikan BFP 3B berada pada masalah jarak jalan internal dan masalah poros tekuk. Setelah diperbaiki, data perhitungan menunjukkan bahwa efisiensi total pompa meningkat sebesar 10%, dan zona getaran berpindah dari zona D (berbahaya) ke zona A (aman untuk pengoperasian berkelanjutan). In December 2016 until January 2017, there was a significant decreasing performance of Unit 3 PLTU Asam Asam in supplying electric power. This was because of some problems in Boiler Feedwater Pump (BFP) 3B. Then the problems have to be solved by the Turbine and Auxiliary Maintenance Crew by some repairs. The repair of BFP 3B are in the internal running clearance problem and bending shaft problem. After the repair of them, calculation data show that the pump total efficiency increasing by 10 %, and the vibration zone move from D zone (dangerous) to A zone (safe for continuous operation).


Author(s):  
Pieter Teesink ◽  
Frank Visser ◽  
Jeroen Jochems

Environmental impact of electricity production has come under increasing international scrutiny over the last few decades. In particular, fossil fuel-fired power plants constitute a significant portion of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. One of the main internal energy-consuming components in a thermal power plant is the main boiler feedwater pump, and its efficiency is a contributor to overall plant efficiency. This paper reports the design optimization of a 30 MW multistage, double-case, volute pump in order to increase overall efficiency by at least three percentage points. The six stage barrel pump produces 3865 m (12680 ft) of head at a capacity of 2750 m3/hr (12100 USGPM) at a speed of 4665 RPM. The machine is installed at the coal-fired supercritical Nuon Hemweg 8 power station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as the main boiler feedwater pump. The design study employed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to identify energy losses and evaluate design iterations. This paper describes the optimization of several individual components, including volutes, short and long crossovers, suction box and final discharge. Scaled model tests were conducted on series stages to validate the CFD results. Additional design constraint that had to be taken into account was that new hardware had to be installed within the limits of the existing pressure boundary components, sealing device and bearing design, which confines the design space considerably. Hardware has, at the time of writing this paper, entered production and is planned to be installed during a May 2013 plant outage.


Author(s):  
Selcuk Selimli ◽  
Savas Sunay

The low-pressure steam requirement in the iron and steel production plant is obtained through pressure reduction stations with unrestrained expansion. In this study, the feasibility of obtaining the low-pressure steam that is needed in the plant in a backpressure turbine instead of pressure reduction stations has been studied. In this way, it is foreseen that a significant amount of wasted energy during the unrestrained expansion in pressure reduction stations, can be recovered as shaft work during the expansion process performed in the turbine. The obtained shaft work is planned to be used in the boiler feedwater pump drive. It is aimed to increase the efficiency of the system by the deactivation of boiler feedwater pump electric motors and as well as bringing the energy that is lost during the unrestrained expansion of the superheated steam to the system through the pump drive. The estimated size of energy saving of the system could be reached to 33.74%. The annual size of achievable saving has been determined by approximately 8,094,810 kWh and economically $509,973. The payback period of the estimated $683,079 investment is 1.34 years. A determined amount of saving is also equivalent to the reduction of 7,285,329 kg CO2 emission, annually.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Marchi ◽  
R. Frank Bush

Abstract The high-energy boiler feedwater pump is the heart of the steam-generation cycle in modern high-pressure boiler systems. These multi-stage centrifugal pumps are engineered to produce system pressures from 12 MPa (1800 lb/in2) to 45 MPa (6500 lb/in2) at temperatures ranging from 150°C (300°F) to 312°C (600°F). To optimize pump hydraulic performance, pump designers have focused on impeller and diffuser vane angles, hydraulic passageway shapes and minimized impeller-to-diffuser vane clearances to maximize performance within a narrow range of operation. This was the approach that had been applied successfully on lower energy pump design of an earlier era. However, in the mid-1980s, in response to market forces, operators began to cycle and operate plants over a wide range of loads, which was contrary to the original plant designs. This new operating paradigm has resulted in unacceptable vibration and acoustic emissions that are often attributable to impeller-to-diffuser vane interaction (a result of the minimized clearances referenced previously). Efforts to reduce these emissions by changing the design must always be balanced with the potential impact on hydraulic performance. This paper uses operating field data taken from boiler feedwater pumps to prove that by: • optimizing hydraulic passageways and • changing the internal geometry, specifically, impeller-to-diffuser vane combinations, vibration and acoustic emissions are reduced without compromising hydraulic performance.


2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 1598-1608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoshih Ma ◽  
Chunkuan Shih ◽  
Yngruey Yuann
Keyword(s):  

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Sudadiyo

Nowadays, pumps are being widely used in the thermal power generation including nuclear power plants. Reaktor Daya Eksperimental (RDE) is a proposed nuclear reactor concept for the type of nuclear power plant in Indonesia. This RDE has thermal power 10 MWth, and uses a feedwater pump within its steam cycle. The performance of feedwater pump depends on size and geometry of impeller model, such as the number of blades and the blade angle. The purpose of this study is to perform a preliminary design on an impeller of feedwater pump for RDE and to simulate its performance characteristics. The Fortran code is used as an aid in data calculation in order to rapidly compute the blade shape of feedwater pump impeller, particularly for a RDE case. The calculations analyses is solved by utilizing empirical correlations, which are related to size and geometry of a pump impeller model, while performance characteristics analysis is done based on velocity triangle diagram. The effect of leakage, pass through the impeller due to the required clearances between the feedwater pump impeller and the volute channel, is also considered. Comparison between the feedwater pump of HTR-10 and of RDE shows similarity in the trend line of curve shape. These characteristics curves will be very useful for the values prediction of performance of a RDE feedwater pump. Preliminary design of feedwater pump provides the size and geometry of impeller blade model with 5-blades, inlet angle 14.5 degrees, exit angle 25 degrees, inside diameter 81.3 mm, exit diameter 275.2 mm, thickness 4.7 mm, and height 14.1 mm. In addition, the optimal values of performance characteristics were obtained when flow capacity was 4.8 kg/s, fluid head was 29.1 m, shaft mechanical power was 2.64 kW, and efficiency was 52 % at rotational speed 1750 rpm.Keywords: Blade, impeller, pump, RDEDESAIN AWAL IMPELER POMPA AIR UMPAN RDE. Saat ini, pompa digunakan secara luas dalam pembangkit tenaga termal termasuk pembangkit listrik tenaga nuklir. Reaktor Daya Eksperimental (RDE) merupakan konsep reaktor nuklir yang diusulkan untuk tipe PLTN di Indonesia. RDE ini memiliki daya termal 10 MWth, dan menggunakan pompa air umpan dalam siklus uapnya. Kinerja pompa air umpan bergantung pada ukuran dan geometri model impeller, seperti jumlah sudu dan sudut sudu. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk membuat rancangan awal impeller pompa air umpan untuk RDE dan untuk mensimulasikan karakteristik kinerjanya. Kode Fortran digunakan sebagai bantuan dalam penghitungan data untuk untuk mengkalkulasi secara cepat bentuk sudu impeller pompa air umpan, terutama pada kasus RDE. Analisis perhitungan dipecahkan menggunakan korelasi empiris yang terkait dengan ukuran dan geometri model impeller pompa, sedangkan analisis karakteristik kinerja dilakukan berdasarkan diagram segitiga kecepatan. Pengaruh bocoran, melalui impeler akibat celah yang diperlukan antara impeller pompa air umpan dan saluran volute, juga dipertimbangkan. Perbandingan antara pompa air umpan HTR-10 dan RDE menunjukkan kemiripan dalam garis tren bentuk kurva. Kurva karakteristik ini akan sangat berguna untuk perkiraan nilai kinerja pompa air umpan RDE. Desain awal pompa air umpan memberikan ukuran dan geometri model sudu impeller dengan 5-sudu, sudut masuk 14,5 derajat, sudut keluar 25 derajat, diameter dalam 81,3 mm, diameter luar 275,2 mm, ketebalan 4,7 mm, dan tinggi 14,1 mm. Selain itu, nilai optimal karakteristik kinerja diperoleh ketika kapasitas aliran 4,8 kg/s, head fluida 29,1 m, tenaga mekanik poros 2,64 kW, dan efisiensi 52 % pada kecepatan putaran 1750 rpm.Kata kunci: Sudu, impeler, pompa, RDE


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. Goodling

Dynamic transients such as steam hammer or water hammer in power plant or process piping can generate high destructive reactions if rigid restraints or snubbers are used in an attempt to exert total control of pipe response. However, where some movement can be tolerated, adequate control can be maintained with much lower resulting loads in the restraining structures and components. The disk spring restraint has been demonstrated to be a practical device for controlling piping movements caused by typical dynamic upset conditions in steam and boiler feedwater piping and in drain lines carrying mixed phase (water and vapor) flow. This paper discusses the simplified mathematics used in estimating loads to design disk spring restraints for such applications.


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