What Attendees Will Learn:

This 11/2-day course will equip attendees with a basic knowledge of fossil power plants, their major components and, the power production process.

Attendees will learn the following:

 

• Fundamental principles and concepts of fossil power plant production
• Major components in fossil power plants, their relative importance and how they work
• Energy conversion and the power generation process
• How the heat source (boiler) converts the chemical energy in the fuel to steam
• How the prime mover (turbine) converts the steam (working fluid) from the boiler to mechanical work (shaft output)
• How the prime mover (generator) converts the turbine shaft output to electrical energy
• Why the heat sink (condenser and auxiliaries) is necessary and how it is used for condensing exhaust steam from the turbine and maintaining vacuum
• The purpose of regenerative equipment for heating condensate/feedwater on its way to the heat source (boiler) from the heat sink (condenser)
• Pumping equipment necessary for raising the pressure of the condensate, feedwater and drains

• Day 1
  • Overview of Fossil Power Plants
  • Energy Conversion Process
  • The Heat Source (Boiler)
  • The Prime Mover (Steam Turbine)
  • Converting Mechanical Energy to Electrical Energy (Generator)
  • Regeneration (Feedwater Heaters, Heat Exchangers)
• Day 2
  • Heat Sink (Condenser and Auxiliaries)
  • Pumping Equipment

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Mr. Sunder Raj has thirty-eight years experience in the power industry and has specialized in power plant design, performance, economic studies, analyses and evaluations and project engineering/management activities. He has held responsible positions with major engineering companies such as Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Burns & Roe, Inc. and Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, Inc. He served as Director of Project Engineering at the New York Power Authority and was responsible for project engineering/management activities on the Indian Point 3 Power Plant. He is the author/developer of the PERFORM^™ software which was developed for power plant design, performance analysis, troubleshooting and training. Mr. Sunder Raj has presented several papers (ASME, EPRI), prepared several books, reports and user manuals in support of the training, software development and consulting activities. He is a committee member of ASME PTC-PM Performance Monitoring Guidelines and ASME Plant Operations Committee.