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A techno-economic analysis of partial repowering of a 210 MW coal fired power plant

  • Samanta, Samiran (Department of Automobile Engineering, MCKV Institute of Engineering) ;
  • Ghosh, Sudip (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2015.06.26
  • Accepted : 2015.09.21
  • Published : 2015.09.25
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Abstract

This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of a partial repowering scheme for an existing 210 MW coal fired power plant by integrating a gas turbine and by employing waste heat recovery. In this repowering scheme, one of the four operating coal mills is taken out and a new natural gas fired gas turbine (GT) block is considered to be integrated, whose exhaust is fed to the furnace of the existing boiler. Feedwater heating is proposed through the utilization of waste heat of the boiler exhaust gas. From the thermodynamic analysis it is seen that the proposed repowering scheme helps to increase the plant capacity by about 28% and the overall efficiency by 27%. It also results in 21% reduction in the plant heat rate and 29% reduction in the specific $CO_2$ emissions. The economic analysis reveals that the partial repowering scheme is cost effective resulting in a reduction of the unit cost of electricity (UCOE) by 8.4%. The economic analysis further shows that the UCOE of the repowered plant is lower than that of a new green-field power plant of similar capacity.

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