srano17 Steam Turbine Etfclancy - Turbines Info Turbines info All about turbines Steam Turbine Efficiency © August 7, 2011 & Posted by Turbinesinfo 221 Me 14Cos? ar, Reaction Turbine __> Impulse Turbine Cosa, Cos a, Tweet 6H The efficiency of any turbine or engine can be defined as its ability to convert the input energy into useful output energy which is expressed in the form of the following equation. Efficiency (n) = Output / Input ‘An ideal turbine with 100% efficiency is the one which converts all its input energ) without dissipating energy in the form of heat or any other form. But in the real world, itis not possible to build a turbine with 100% efficiency because of friction in the parts of turbines, heat loss, and other such losses. In the case of steam turbines following factors decides the overall efficiency f the turbine. = Velocity of input steam (which in turn depends on the temperature and pressure of steam) hpi turinesinfo\comisteam-turine-eficiency! a0somo ‘Steam Turbine Etfcency - Turbines ro = Angle of guiding vanes = Blade angle on the rotor = Radius of rotor The electrical generating efficiency of standard steam turbine power plants varies from a high of 37% HHV4 for large, electric utility plants designed for the highest practical annual capacity factor, to under 10% HHV for small, simple plants which make electricity as a byproduct of delivering steam to processes or district heating systems. There are two types of steam turbines; impulse turbine and reaction turbine. Both types of steam turbines have different efficiency due to their different working principles but the efficiency of both types of steam turbines is expressed by the following equation Efficiency (n) = Work Done / Input Kinetic Energy Here input kinetic energy totally depends on the absolute velocity of the steam at the inlet of steam turbine but work done depends on lots of factors including drop in heat content of steam within the turbine, the angle of guide vanes especially at the inlet of turbines, blade angles, relative velocity of steam in the turbine, etc. Itis fairly difficult to calculate work done by turbine because of all these factors and in some cases itis not possible to accurately calculate certain factors like velocity, temperature, or pressure of steam. There are two ways of calculating steam efficiency. These methods referred as blade efficiency (nb) and stage efficiency (ns). Blade efficiency is calculated using the velocity of the steam while stage efficiency is calculated by measuring changes in the enthalpy of the steam. Enthalpy is referred to the heat content of the steam. In both cases the angle of guide vanes at the inlet plays an important role which is represented by al. The cosine of this angle plays the central role in defining the efficiency of both impulse and reaction steam turbine. The following figure 1s showing the graph of blade efficiency for both types of steam turbines. This figure is indicating that reaction turbine is more efficient than impulse turbine. hpi turinesinfo\comisteam-turine-eficiency! 20sora Steam Turbine Etfclancy - Turbines Info Ab Reaction Turbine > Impulse Turbine Cosa, Cosa, psu 2 Mi Figure 1: Blade efficiency of impulse and reaction steam turbine The maximum efficiency of impulse steam turbine is achieved at zero degrees angle of inlet blades because this angle keeps the friction at the minimum by reducing the surface area of the blade. It is also possible to Link several turbines in series to utilize maximum energy from steam before sending it back to the condenser. In this type of arrangement stage efficiency calculation method works best. ‘An important point to note here is that all this discussion did not include the energy loss in heating water and condensing steam. Commercial industries also calculate efficiencies of these operations to find out the overall efficiency of the entire setup. Different Efficiencies of Steam Turbines Isentropic Efficiency: This is the efficiency which compares the actual output with the ideal isentropic ‘output to measure the effectiveness of extracted work. CHP Electrical Efficiency. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) electrical efficiency measures the amount of boiler fuel converted into electrical energy or electricity. It can be calculated by following equation CHP electrical efficiency = Net electricity generated/Total fvel into boiler Total CHP Efficiency: This efficiency measures total output including electricity and steam energy by the boiler fuel. It is calculated by following formula. Total CHP efficiency = (Net electricity generated + Net steam to process)/Total fuel into boiler Effective Electrical Efficiency: This efficiency is calculated by the formula hpi turinesinfo\comisteam-turine-eficiency! a0sora Steam Turbine Etfclancy - Turbines Info (Steam turbine electric power output) / (Total fuel into boiler - (steam to process/boiler efficiency) Ieis equivalent to 3,412 Btu/KWh/Net Heat Rate and Net Heat Rate = (total fuel input to the boiler — the fuel that would required to generate the steam to process assuming the same boiler efficiency/steam turbine electric output (kW) Heat or power ratio is also an important factor in this discussion and it can be calculated by the formula Power/Heat Ratio = CHP electrical power output (Btu)/ useful heat output (Btu) Following table 1 is showing the list of different performance characteristics f various commercial steam turbines. This table is for classic steamn/boiler CHP system with the capacities of SOOKW, 3MW, and 1SMW. Cost & Performance Characteristios ‘System 1 System 2 Systems Steam Turbine Parameters [_ Nominal: ¢ Capacity (EW) 500 3,000 15,000 Turbine Type Back Presswe | Back Presswe | Back Pressime Equipment Cost SAW)” S40 208 Total Installed Cost SW) 318 349 ‘Turbine Isentropic Efficiency (%s)* 50% 70% 30% "Generator/Gearbox Efficiency (0) 34% 24% 97% Steam Flow. (Ihs/ir) il 126.000. 450.000, “Inlet Pressure (psig) 700 t re ~ 650 2 —————————— 150 Outlet Temperature (° Falirenlieit) 366 CHP System Parameters Boiler Efficiency 0), HHV. 30% 809 CHP Electric Efficiency (°0). Hiv 65% 9.3% Fuel Input (MMBtwhr)? 74 $49.0 1070 386.6 Steam to Process (kW) 31.352 “Total CHP Efiiciency (0), HH 79.5% ‘Powei/Heat Ratio 0.10 ‘Net Heat Rate (Bru/k Wh) 4568 75.180 Boiler Steam Turbine CHP System Cost and Performance Characteristics Performance characteristics of typical steam/boiler CHP system OD steam Turbines (1 boiler, CHP, CHP systems, Efficiency, gearbox, generator, Steam Turbine, thermodynamic efficiency, Turbine « Innovative Wind Turbines Introduction of Gas Turbines » hpi turinesinfo\comisteam-turine-eficiency! anosora Steam Turbine Etfclancy - Turbines Info 21 thoughts on “Steam Turbine Efficiency” mahesh babu says: December 30, 2012 at 7:36 pm turbine efficiency methods and bland efficiency Reply ALLG says! May 8, 2013 at 5:45 pm. isentropic method Reply Jyotirmaya Nayak says: January 5, 2013 at 6:18 pm. |am a young promoter and entrepreneur of biomass to energy plants. | want to build 2 500Kw of biomass gasification based steam power plant. | want to know steam conditions / boiler specifications for 500Kw turbine. | would be waiting for your reply. Thanking you Regards Reply Pravinkumar Wankhade says: February 13, 2013 at 1:09 pm | have worked considerable experimentation on biomass gasification and would like to be associated with you and share technical knowhow Reply Ravishankar says: January 17, 2013 at 10:40 am Dear Mr. Nayak, Assuming you are able to generate your biogas on a continuous basis, a steam condition of 10 bar and 150 deg C should be adequate to generate the 500 kW of power you are Looking for. Normally the biogas generation poses difficulty in terms of 1. Source of raw material 2. Consistent quality of fuel 3. Your ability to remove Carbondi Oxide and sulphur compounds hpi turinesinfo\comisteam-turine-eficiency! 510szreoi7 ‘Steam Turbine Etfcency - Turbines ro There is a company by name Mizun Consultants and Engineers, India who claim they have both boilers and steam turbines for a wide range particularly in the lower range. Hope that helps. Regards, Ravi Reply bhesania ramesh says: April 6, 2013 at 2:41 pm. 500kw cost is 989usd is a lowest prise to get our owen power need to get heat energy from agricalture waste Reply Sofia says: December 30, 2014 at 3:25 pm Hi. I'ma final year student, majoring in electrical power. I'm doing a final year project on generating electricity using biomass in palm oil mill and | am required to calculate the like how much steam will produce how much kW.. It’s a bit complicated as at first | wanted to ignore the mechanical side such 8 calculating the steam and the calorific value and so on as I should be completing the electrical side. But my supervisor is asking me to find the calculation on the steam turbine which makes me a bit confused. Can you please help me and reply this message soon ? Thanks Reply Mahesh Khot says: February 11, 2015 at 9:03 am Hil am a PG student. Will you please help me in optimizing the turbine blade parameters for obtaining the maximum efficiency.? Please reply. Thanks Reply Nithya R Menon says: June 19, 2015 at 12:57 am Ifthe size of turbine directly proportional to its speed? Reply ee Carlos Barrera says: ~ July 25, 2015 at 2:01 am State of the Art — Novel InFlow Tech ~ Featured Project Development; / 1; Rotary-Turbo-InFlow Tech / — GEARTURBINE PROJECT Have the similar basic system of the Aeolipilie Heron Steam Turbine device from Alexandria 10-70 AD * With Retrodynamic = DextroRPM VS LevoinFlow = Ying Yang Way Power Type - Non Waste Looses *8X/Y Thermodynamic CYCLE Way Steps. Higher efficient percent. 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Reply Ugur says: December 22, 2015 at 6:33 am When you need to produce electricty as well as steam for some process, backpressure turbine is a choice because you can use the same steam at low pressure after turbine which requires high pressure of steam to produce shaft work. Reply maqbool says: December 16, 2015 at 10:52 am very nice Reply gary says: April, 2016 at 4:27 am Hi guys, can anyone provide potential causes for reduced efficiency in smaller turbines? I understand that often small turbines operate at a lower pressure and temperature which inherently affects the thermal efficiency. However, if hypothetically, one was to develop a turbine with capacity of say 5MWe with the same steam operating conditions as a 200MWe turbine. Why would it experience a lower efficiency? Is there specific loss mechanisms that do not scale linearly with turbine size? 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