Live support chatA Concise Guide To Combined Cycle Power Plants
In A Concise Guide To Combined Cycle Power Plants, you'll learn ...
- The operating principle of a combined cycle power plant
- The evolution, configuration, and advantages of combined cycle power plants compared with other electric power generation technologies
- Combined cycle power plant conceptual design, selection of gas turbines, general review of power block arrangements, and control philosophy
- Environmental emissions issues associated with combined cycle power plants
Overview
Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 33 pages
Gas-fired combined cycle power plants are presently dominating the utility scale electricity generation market in the U.S., steadily filling the void resulting from non-use and/or phasing out of coal-fired power plants due to environmental concerns and other issues.
This course begins with an explanation of combined cycle power plants, and then goes on to review their evolution, configuration, and advantages over other electric power generation technologies. The thermodynamic principles of combined cycle power plants and their performance variation with ambient conditions are reviewed. The major equipment of a combined cycle power plant is discussed, followed by a plant design section covering conceptual design, selection of gas turbines, general review of power block arrangements, control philosophy and environmental emissions, concluding with the salient features of a few recent installations of high efficiency advanced combined cycle power plants.
This course will be interesting and instructive to all Mechanical Engineers in general, and in particular to engineers of any discipline associated with the electric power generation.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Definition of a combined cycle power plant
- The present dominant role of combined cycle technology in the utility scale electricity generation in the U.S.A.
- The historical evolution of the combined cycle technology to its present form of advanced combined cycle power plant
- Configuration of a combined cycle power plant and its advantages over other electricity-producing technologies
- Thermodynamic principles of the combined cycle technology and its higher thermal efficiency compared to other currently available technologies
- Variation of the performance of gas turbines and combined cycle plants with ambient conditions
- Familiarity with the major equipment of a combined cycle power plant
- Combined cycle plant design—covering conceptual design, equipment selection, familiarity with power block arrangement, control philosophy
- Environmental emission issues of combined cycle power plants
- Salient features of some recent installations of advanced combined cycle power plants
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 33 pages
