International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Priority of any power generation plant is reduction in heat rate, improved conversion of low grade energy into high grade energy and increased thermal efficiencies. Increase in coal costs, Green environment protection and related global regulations led the researchers to invent new ways to improve the efficiency of power plants. This technical study aims at optimizing the various technical parameters for the selected 600MW Rankine cycle based Ultra Supercritical (USC) power plant. The energy and exergy destructions and efficiencies would be estimated by varying the number of feedwater heaters, bled steam pressures and deaerator pressures of power plant. Also aimed to optimize the number of feedwater heaters during this study. While carrying out this study, the operational constraints of the individual thermal equipment’s are taken into consideration.