James1030bruce,
I have wanted something like this for many years, my application measuring the wetness fraction of steam leaving the LP turbine, in order to get a grip on turbine efficiency. The only thing I have come accross is EPRI reference 1004051 Demonstration of EPRI STEEM Optical probe...
Blouwa,
Provided everything were properly "mothballed" when they were taken out of service I would not be too worried. Thus the key questions you need to ask are the following:
1) How were they stored, specifically with respect to the following:
a) Moisture - there has to be some measurement...
Peregrino7,
In a fossil fired power station environment, the induced draught (ID) fans are usually around 1.5 times cost of the forced draught (FD) fans. In addition they use substantially more power. Larger motors also have major downstream effects e.g. switchgear, transformers etc. The...
This makes me think of a joke I heard many years ago...
In Heaven:
Lovers are Italian
Engineers are German
Cooks are French
Money is handled by the Swiss
and everything is organised by the Brittish
In Hell:
Lovers are Brittish
Engineers are Frech
Cooks are German
Money is handled by the...
Firstly define what the Wilson Zone is - From EPRI TR-108943:
Spontaneous condensation to relieve supersaturation (historically referred to as the Wilson line or
zone) has not been seen in operating turbines, although it can be and has been observed in Laval and other nozzle tests. As a result...
Generally, the only good ways are the following:
1. Helium/ SF6 gas testing. In the old days we were able to use Freon - till the greenies complained about the ozone layer. This method works well, but takes a long time to complete.
2. Flood testing. During an outage, fill the condenser with...
We recently discovered cracking in our LP turbine last stage blades (L-0). These blades have a finger attachement system. From a previous unit, we have seen that it is possible that these fingers can crack off - although this is after many years of faithful operation. Unfortunately, due to...
1. Thermal newsletter- illustrating the goals for this function and ways to help product development
Just keep it fun, and be wary of going too technical. Most engineers don't understand entropy, thus don't go confusing others with it. Lots on pictures, few words...
If there is already a site...
You did say visualise...
Subcritical is your wife's reaction when you return home "late from work" smelling of beer. The phase change happens over time as she has gradually figures out that you have been out with the boys.
Supercritical phase change is your wife's reaction when you return...
The answer is that you need to show your work to be worth real money. If you can't do that, then probably you should not be doing it in the first place. (The typical management answer...) What I have found over the past 10 years, being both on the engineering and management side of the table...
There are a number of software packages out there. Some examples are PEPSE (pepse.scientech.us), Gatecycle (www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/ plant_perf_software/en/gatecycle/index.htm) and Thermoflow products (http://www.thermoflow.com/Products_FullyFlexible.htm). The trick is to figure out...
