Assessing and improving the efficiencies of a steam power plant using exergy analysis. Part 1: assessment Online publication date: Tue, 11-Jul-2006
by Marc A. Rosen, Raymond Tang
International Journal of Exergy (IJEX), Vol. 3, No. 4, 2006
Abstract: Energy and exergy analyses are used to examine the performance of a coal-fired steam power plant and to identify and evaluate possible modifications to improve the efficiency of the plant. The exergy analysis provides a detailed breakdown of the exergy losses (including waste exergy emissions and internal irreversibilities) for the overall plant and its components. The results show that irreversibilities are the largest source of exergy loss for the plant and that the irreversibility rate in the steam generator is much larger than that in the other plant components.
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Exergy (IJEX):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:
Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.
If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com