STEAM POWER PLANT OVERVIEW: COMPONENTS, APPLICATION AND DESIGN

AUTHORS: Thembah Seven

ABSTRACT:The world utilizes energy from various sources of energy such as fossil fuels, wind, solar, wind hydroelectric and tidal energy. The market demand of energy and high competitiveness of energy producers requires strategic power plants and systems which are efficient. Steam power plant is a low-cost power plant which generates power continuously and respond rapidly to changing loads whilst meeting high energy demands. The location and design of a steam power plant requires minimum space and can be located near the load center whilst reducing transmission losses. The steam power plant contains multivariable and interactive process and boiler technology is one of the processes which requires a well-designed system. The boiler working fluid absorbs the heat of combustion from the burning of coal and converts the water into steam. This article provides an overview of steam power plant which is a fossil-fuel power plant whilst focusing on application design and configuration of steam power plant