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Samsudin, Salmi
(2017)
Effects of sub-bituminous coal on boiler performance.
Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Abstract
In Malaysia, coal-fired generation represents about one-third of the installed power
generation capacity and accounted for nearly 43% of the electricity produced in 2014.
Due to low cost in power generation, most of the developing countries use coal as the
main fuel at power generation plants. During commissioning stage, boiler operation
will be designed and tuned as per coal specification and environmental requirement
factors. With limited source of coal for sub-critical boiler, this study measure the
available coal that can be used. However, coal with different characteristic will affect
the boiler performance and parameters. The objective of the study is to analyze the
boiler operation performance, boiler efficiency, energy losses which is accomplished
during combustion process which used from sub-bituminous coal as the main fuel.
The best coal will be determined during the study and can be chosen to replace the
existing coal by considering the results. The study was performing at a thermal coal
power plant which has sub-critical boiler, reheat and coal fired boilers with a nominal
rated power output of 700MW. The technical specification of the boiler includes the
specification of main-steam piping, cold reheat steam piping and hot reheat steam
piping. The boiler concepts are two-pass type boiler and drum with control circulation.
During the study, numerical plant performance data was extracted from the data
logging system for the whole period and presented in graphical view showing the
pattern. Boiler efficiency was measured using direct method and indirect method, was
found that coal with different Calorific Value (CV) and properties give different
efficiency values to the boiler. The results show the sub-bituminous coal with CV
5013 kcal/kg similarly perform similar to designated coal with CV 4852 kcal/kg.
Besides that, the superheated steam and reheater steam for coal CV 5013kcal/kg
perform at normal value which is close to 540°C setting point. The desuperheater
spray water flows operate between 18-25 t/h with minimal operational to achieve the
target value, 540°C. The metal temperatures for superheated and reheater tube still
within limit value, 550°C. In addition, the results convey the properties of coal
contribute to the major energy losses during the combustion process in the furnace.
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