Operation and Maintenance of Thermal Power Stations: Best Practices and Health Monitoring [Hardcover]

This book illustrates operation and maintenance practices/guidelinesfor economic generation and managing health of a thermal power generator beyondits regulatory life. The book provides knowledge for professionals managing powerstation operations, through its unique approach to chemical analysis of water, steam,oil etc. to identify malfunctioning/defects in equipment/systems much before thephysical manifestation of the problem. The book also contains a detailed procedurefor conducting performance evaluation tests on different equipment, and for analyzingtest results for predicting maintenance requirements, which has lent a new dimensionto power systems operation and maintenance practices. A number of real life casestudies also enrich the book. This book will prove particularly useful to powersystems operations professionals in the developing economies, and also to researchersand students involved in studying power systems operations and control. 

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter2. Performance Parameters of Power Stations of Global/Indian Scenario.- Chapter3. Residual Life Assessment.- Chapter 4. Coal Fired Unit- Operation Guidelines.-Chapter 5. Managing Thermal Stress.- Chapter 6. Chemical Health of Thermal PowerUnit.- Chapter 7. Maintenance Practice.- Chapter 8. Outage Minimization.-Chapter 9. Managing Efficiency.- Chapter 10. Best Practices.- Annexures: ImportantOperation Guidelines/Operation Directives.

Dr.Pradip Chanda, has more than 34 years of experience as a power plantprofessional in various capacities at the National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC), India. Starting his career as a commissioning engineer of 200 MW and500 MW thermal sets, has given him exposure to the intricacies of behaviour of equipmentand subsystems of thermal power plants. Working as a shift-charge engineer in a1600 MW super thermal power station and heading the efficiency department of athermal power station for molCB