Proceedings: 1989 EPRI heat-rate improvement conference

Conference · Sat Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6587556

EPRI, in conjunction with ASME, conducted a three-day conference, September 26--28, 1989, in Knoxville, Tennessee. This conference, hosted by TVA, attracted more than 400 utility representative, manufactures, and architect/engineering firms for presentations of 50 papers on specific aspects of heat-rate improvement. Special discussions addressed retrofit and advanced design considerations, and individual working groups investigated recent developments in performance monitoring and instrumentation, computer applications, and coal quality measurement. Presentations encompassed total plant analysis, as well as more detailed system and component analysis. Overall, performance modeling and system monitoring yield improved heat rate and unit availability. The conference covered a wide range of equipment improvements, including retractable turbine packing rings, boiler heat distribution measurement techniques, ash analysis techniques, turbine monitoring software, and methods of minimizing acid condensation as well as fouling of regenerative air preheaters. Individual projects are processed separately for the databases.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Plant Performance, Knoxville, TN (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: EPRI
• OSTI ID: 6587556
• Report Number(s): EPRI-GS-6985; CONF-8909143--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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