Power Plant Control And Instrumentation
Schematic Symbols – Abbreviations and Terms Used in This Book – Basic Generation and Use of Steam – Why You Need to Understand Steam – Boiling: State Transition from Water to Steam – Nature of Steam – Thermal Efficiency – Combined Cycle Gas Turbines and Power Plants – Executive Summary – Water and Steam Cycles – Steam Generation and Utilization – Steam Turbines – Condensate System and Feed Water – Pumps and Feed Valves – Water Cycles and HRSG Steam Systems – Summary – Furnace – Air and Gas Systems – Fuel Systems – Ignition Systems – Burner Management Systems – Gas Turbines in Combined Cycle Applications -Summary – Definition of Needs for steam generators – Type of demand – Demand definition for power plant applications – Main demand in power plant applications – Load demand in combined heat and power plants – Waste treatment of power plants – Summary – Combustion and train control – Principles of combustion control – Multi-fuel operation – Coal mill control – Train control – System combustion control concepts – Summary – Feedwater control and -instrumentation – feedwater control principles – one, two and three component controls – drum level measurement and display.