scholarly journals Health-safety and environmental risk assessment of power plants using multi criteria decision making method

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Jozi ◽  
Alsadat Pouriyeh

Growing importance of environmental issues at global and regional levels including pollution of water, air etc. as well as the outcomes such as global warming and climate change has led to being considered environmental aspects as effective factors for power generation. Study ahead, aims at examination of risks resulting from activities of Yazd Combined Cycle Power Plant located in Iran. Method applied in the research is analytical hierarchy process. After identification of factors causing risk, the analytical hierarchy structure of the power plant risks were designed and weight of the criteria and sub-criteria were calculated by intensity probability product using Eigenvector Method and EXPERT CHOICE Software as well. Results indicate that in technological, health-safety, biophysical and socio economic sections of the power plant, factors influenced by the power plant activities like fire and explosion, hearing loss, quantity of groundwater, power generation are among the most important factors causing risk in the power plant. The drop in underground water levels is the most important natural consequence influenced on Yazd Combined Cycle Power Plant.

Author(s):  
Wancai Liu ◽  
Hui Zhang

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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 533 ◽  
pp. 354-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Qiang Sun

Under the general policy of the national energy-saving emission reduction and sustainable development, the domestic iron and steel enterprises surge in the by-product gas power generation project. There exist many dangerous and harmful factors in by-product steel gas power generation process and which easily caused casualties and the pollution of the environment. The study on risk analysis and evaluation are still relatively dearth about the by-product gas generating process of domestic steel enterprises. The boiler system on a Combined Cycle Power Plant was analyzed and evaluation by ICI/MOND fire and explosion toxicity index method and the method of fault tree analysis, which combined with the actual situation of steel plant Combined Cycle Power Plant. The results show that the combustion system is more dangerous, and the hazard index levels are reduced to lower level after safety compensatory measures except the unit toxicity index higher. The shielding device or gas alarm failure was the main cause of gas poisoning. According to the analysis some feasible measures was put forward. The study has positive guiding significance for risk management and safety administration decision of the Combined Cycle Power Plant.


Author(s):  
Rolf H. Kehlhofer

In the past 15 years the combined-cycle (gas/steam turbine) power plant has come into its own in the power generation market. Today, approximately 30 000 MW of power are already installed or being built as combined-cycle units. Combined-cycle plants are therefore a proven technology, showing not only impressive thermal efficiency ratings of up to 50 percent in theory, but also proving them in practice and everyday operation (1) (2). Combined-cycle installations can be used for many purposes. They range from power plants for power generation only, to cogeneration plants for district heating or combined cycles with maximum additional firing (3). The main obstacle to further expansion of the combined cycle principle is its lack of fuel flexibility. To this day, gas turbines are still limited to gaseous or liquid fuels. This paper shows a viable way to add a cheap solid fuel, coal, to the list. The plant system in question is a 2 × 150 MW combined-cycle plant of BBC Brown Boveri with integrated coal gasification plant of British Gas/Lurgi. The main point of interest is that all the individual components of the power plant described in this paper have proven their worth commercially. It is therefore not a pilot plant but a viable commercial proposition.


2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Pelster ◽  
D. Favrat ◽  
M. R. von Spakovsky

Combined cycle power plants are currently one of the most important options for the construction of new generating capacity as well as for the replacement and repowering of existing units. Due to the complexity and the large number of options and parameters available to such plants, finding optimized solutions for system synthesis, design, and operation is very difficult if not impossible with these traditional methods such as case and parametric tradeoff studies. This is especially true when advanced options as well as thermodynamic, economic, and environmental criteria are considered. A thermoeconomic environomic methodology to deal with these difficulties is presented here. Results for the application of this methodology to a 50 MW cogeneration combined cycle power plant are presented and discussed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 4607-4614
Author(s):  
M. Nematollahi ◽  
M. Rezaeian

Flow-induced corrosion is one of the most prevalent tube damage mechanisms in steam generators of power plants. In this study, tube failure of a steam generator in Fars Combined Cycle Power Plant is evaluated. In addition to analysis of the measured tube thicknesses and the failure statistics data, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) methods are used to simulate flow distribution inside and outside of the tubes in one header of the low pressure circuit of the plant steam generator. The results show that regarding the created two-phase flow pattern inside the tubes, the droplet impingement erosion is the main source of tube failures in the bending areas where the extrados surface of the tubes are partially prone to the droplets. The results are useful for modifying the design of the steam generator from different viewpoints such as, optimal design for appropriate configuration of downcomer, header and footer and tube bending. Also, selecting suitable material for the steam generator tubes and implementation of protective coating in risky areas would benefit from the present results.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hashmi SAM ◽  

The main idea of this research paper is to provide an innovative way of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a coal powered power plant. This research paper discusses the design and modeling of a carbon capturing membrane which is being used in an IGCC power plant to capture carbon dioxide from its exhaust gases. The modeling and design of the membrane is done using CFD software namely Ansys workbench. The design and modeling is done using two simulations, one describes the design and structure and the second one demonstrates the working mechanism of the membrane. This paper also briefly discusses IGCC which is environmentally benign compared to traditional pulverized coal-fired power plants, and economically feasible compared to the Natural Gas Combine Cycle (NGCC). IGCC power plant is more diverse and offers flexibility in fuel utility. This paper also incorporates a PFD of integrated gasification power plant with the carbon capturing membrane unit integrated in it. Index Terms: Integrated gasification combined cycle power plant, Carbon capture and storage, Gas permeating membrane, CFD based design of gas permeating membrane.


Author(s):  
Emad Hamid ◽  
Mike Newby ◽  
Pericles Pilidis

The high thermal efficiency and the use of low carbon content fuel (e.g., natural gas) have made the Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) one of the best choices for power generation due to its benefits associate with low cost and low environmental impact. The performance of Unfired Steam Cycle (USC) as a part of the CCPP has significant impact on the performance of the whole power plant as it provides the CCPP with around one third of the total useful power. An accurate performance simulation of the USC is therefore necessary to analyze the effects of various operating parameters on the performance of combined cycle power plant. In this paper, a performance simulation approach for an unfired steam cycle using single and dual pressure-level of an OTSG is presented. The developed modeling method has been applied to the performance simulation of an existing unfired steam cycle power generation unit installed at Manx Electricity Authority and the results are promising. A comparison between simulated and actual performance at design and off design operating conditions of the same USC has shown a remarkable agreement with errors values below 1%.


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