scholarly journals Evaluation of the relationship between the uses of safety procedures in the rate of human error in Yazd Combined Cycle Power Plant

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Boghri ◽  
H Baghaeikhah ◽  
F Madadizadeh ◽  
GH Halvani
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Safety Analysis ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Wilcoxon Test ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Combined Cycle Power Plant ◽  
Generator Operation ◽  
Job Safety ◽  
Safety Procedures

Introduction: About 60 to 90 percent of an accident in the industry is caused by human error. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of safety procedures in reducing human error in Yazd Combined Cycle Power Plant employees.   Materials and Methods: The present study is a quasi-experimental intervention that was conducted aimed to measure the human error of 121 employees of Yazd Combined Cycle Power Plant in 5 occupational groups (safety and firefighting, generator operation, generator operation, chemical refinery, warehouse keeping, and generator repair) in 2020. First, job safety analysis (JSA) was performed. Safety procedures related to each job were prepared, and with the help of their items and observing the process of doing work, the percentage of human error before and after the investigation was calculated. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical indicators including mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range, frequency and frequency percentage, and Wilcoxon nonparametric test by SPSS software version 24. The significance level was considered 0.05.   Results: A study on five main jobs, according to Wilcoxon test results showed, the highest and lowest human error percent before the intervention was related to generator repair occupational groups (58.59%) and warehouse keeping (4.16%). A significant difference was between human error percent before (433.41 ± 35.14) and after (440.21 ± 29.29) the intervention (p <0.001).   Conclusion: This study showed that performing job safety analysis and implementing safety procedures related to each job will decrease people's human error percent. Therefore, the implementation of safety procedures related to each job was suggested to the industry. This procedure must be obtained by careful job analysis, and an appropriate procedure should be developed using a panel of experts.

scholarly journals Solvent Screening and Feasible Study of Retrofitting CO2 Capture System for Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 2394-2401
Author(s):  
Satoshi Saito ◽  
Norihide Egami ◽  
Toshihisa Kiyokuni ◽  
Mitsuru Udatsu ◽  
Hideo Kitamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Combined Cycle Power Plant ◽  
Natural Gas Combined Cycle ◽  
Feasible Study

Simulation and Optimization of Combined Cycle Power Cycles Through HRSG’s Heat Exchangers Arrangement and Parameters for Exergy and Cost

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravin G. Naik ◽  
Chirayu M. Shah ◽  
Arvind S. Mohite
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Steam Generator ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Heat Recovery ◽  
Second Law Of Thermodynamics ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Heat Recovery Steam Generator ◽  
Exergetic Efficiency ◽  
Power Cycles ◽  
Combined Cycle Power Plant

To produce the power with higher overall efficiency and reasonable cost is ultimate aim for the power industries in the power deficient scenario. Though combined cycle power plant is most efficient way to produce the power in today’s world, rapidly increasing fuel prices motivates to define a strategy for cost-effective optimization of this system. The heat recovery steam generator is one of the equipment which is custom made for combined cycle power plant. So, here the particular interest is to optimize the combined power cycle performance through optimum design of heat recovery steam generator. The case of combined cycle power plant re-powered from the existing Rankine cycle based power plant is considered to be simulated and optimized. Various possible configuration and arrangements for heat recovery steam generator has been examined to produce the steam for steam turbine. Arrangement of heat exchangers of heat recovery steam generator is optimized for bottoming cycle’s power through what-if analysis. Steady state model has been developed using heat and mass balance equations for various subsystems to simulate the performance of combined power cycles. To evaluate the performance of combined power cycles and its subsystems in the view of second law of thermodynamics, exergy analysis has been performed and exergetic efficiency has been determined. Exergy concepts provide the deep insight into the losses through subsystems and actual performance. If the sole objective of optimization of heat recovery steam generator is to increase the exergetic efficiency or minimizing the exergy losses then it leads to the very high cost of power which is not acceptable. The exergo-economic analysis has been carried to find the cost flow from each subsystem involved to the combined power cycles. Thus the second law of thermodynamics combined with economics represents a very powerful tool for the systematic study and optimization of combined power cycles. Optimization studies have been carried out to evaluate the values of decision parameters of heat recovery steam generator for optimum exergetic efficiency and product cost. Genetic algorithm has been utilized for multi-objective optimization of this complex and nonlinear system. Pareto fronts generated by this study represent the set of best solutions and thus providing a support to the decision-making.

Steam Turbine Driving Compressor for Gas-Steam Combined Cycle Power Plant

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wancai Liu ◽  
Hui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Thermodynamic Process ◽  
Combined Cycle Power Plant ◽  
Steam Cycle

Gas turbine is widely applied in power-generation field, especially combined gas-steam cycle. In this paper, the new scheme of steam turbine driving compressor is investigated aiming at the gas-steam combined cycle power plant. Under calculating the thermodynamic process, the new scheme is compared with the scheme of conventional gas-steam combined cycle, pointing its main merits and shortcomings. At the same time, two improved schemes of steam turbine driving compressor are discussed.

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