Internal Technical Report, Software Requirements and Design Guide for the 5MW(e) Raft River Pilot Plant
The 5MW(e) electrical generating plant is a demonstrational unit intended to provide engineering data basic to improvement of geothermal-electric technology. It is anticipated that the plant will operate on a production basis after initial testing, and that periodic re-testing will be done to measure the effects of fouling in heat exchanges and aging generally. The initial tests will confirm engineering estimates of performance, and will identify optimum feasible operatinq conditions and maximum power generating capacity. They will also identify any anomalous plant behavior not foreseen. Several tests will lead to quantification of constant and variable terms used in thermodynamic relationships descriptive of plant and subsystem behavior. Because the product of the testing will be confirmatory engineering data heretofore unavailable, the plant has been carefully instrumented, with either explicit or implicit instrumentation redundancy for most parameters to be measured. The 5MW(e) data system collects the data directly from the instrumentation. Enhancements such as on-line analytical routines may be added later, but initially, data capture shall be the sole activity of the data system. The 5MW(e) plant converts the energy of geothermally heated water to electrical energy conforming to 60 Hz commercial power standards. The plant capacity is sufficiently large to be useful in a demonstrational sense, but is limited to a capacity conservative of the geothermal energy resource, which hasn't been fully explored. The 5MW(e) plant will continue on a regular production basis after completion of the testing. Additional production units may be added at a later time.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), Idaho Falls, ID
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 896033
- Report Number(s):
- IS-M-80-100; EGG/ITR-80-03; TRN: US200703%%788
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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