PPCYCLE

Steam Cycle Analysis and System Design of Utility Thermal Power Plants

The PPCYCLE, an Expert System Software which will perform both the system design and performance calculation of the Utility Thermal Power Plants of sizes above 60 MW to 1000 MW firing Coal, Lignite, Oil and Natural Gas as fuel.

This Expert System designs entire Power Plant System including Boiler, Turbine, Turbine Driven/Motor Driven Boiler Feed Pumps, Deaerator, HP and LP Heaters, Condenser, CEP, Cooling Tower, CW System, ACW System, Plant Water System, Fuel Handling Plant, Ash Handling Plant, Air Conditioning and Ventilation System, Compressed Air System, Fire Fighting System, and Plant Power & Utility Piping System.

Boiler and Auxiliaries	Desalination Plant	Heat Balance Diagram
Steam Turbine and Auxiliaries	DM Plant	Water Balance Diagram
Feed Heating System	Cooling Tower	Plant Auxiliary Power
Deaerator	Fuel & Ash Handling System	Plant Performance
Surface Condenser	HVAC System	Equipment List
CW System	Fire Fighting System	Electric Motor List
ACW System	Compressed Air System	Project Cost Estimation
Raw Water System	Power Piping System	Cost of Generation

This Expert System Software is capable of designing of SUB-CRITICAL as well SUPER-CRITICAL Thermal Utility Power Plants.

It gives sizing details like capacity etc., with basic parameters for selection of the equipment for the Utility Power Plant.

It optimizes the Plant Economics by calculating Cost of Generation and Project Cost Estimation. It computes the Heat Rate and Auxiliary Power consumption of the Power Plant.

The important feature of this software is that it performs OFF-DESIGN performance of the power plant and the behaviour of the plant for different operating conditions can be stimulated by varying parameters.

The Output documents are

	Heat Balance Diagram for DESIGN mode
	Heat Balance Diagram for OFF-DESIGN mode
	System Design
	Boiler Performance
	Condenser Performance
	Deaerator/ Drum Calculation
	Design Parameters
	Process Flow Diagrams
	Piping Design Calculations
	Natural Draft / Induced Draft Cooling Tower Performance
	Equipment List
	Motor List
	Cost Estimation Sheet

The Heat Balance Diagram depicts the Power Plant configuration and also gives performance details like Heat-Rate, Gross Power, Auxiliary Power Consumption, Net Power, and Plant Efficiency.

The System Design sheet performs number of basic calculations and integrates all the components of the Power Plant System.

The unique feature of this software is that it will calculate the effect of grid frequency variation on Power Plant Performance, which is the unique problem of the Indian sub-continent.

This software is basically a worksheet module with build-in programs developed using Visual Basic Application Tools, which can be customized easily to specific requirements.

Mail your enquires to -

Aravinthraajan Energy Systems

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