New 215 MWel CFB Power Units for Estonian Oil Shale

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju¨ri Loosaar ◽  
Hendrik Arro ◽  
Teet Parve ◽  
To˜nu Pihu ◽  
Arvi Prikk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Shale ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Operational Reliability ◽  
Thermal Capacity ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Pulverized Firing ◽  
Basic Power

Estonian basic power supply is over 90% covered by oil shale fired thermal power plants. Total installed thermal capacity of the boilers is 10.7 GWth and every year about 11 millions tons of oil shale is fired. Two different combustion technologies, the old pulverized oil shale firing and the new CFB technology are used at the moment. The new CFB units totaling 430 MWel delivered by Foster Wheeler Energia started operation in 2003–2004. The very first operational experience of CFB units are very promising and all basic problems of oil shale pulverized firing like high air emissions (SO2 — 820–1360 mg/MJ; NOx — 90–110 mg/MJ), fouling and corrosion of heating surfaces, low efficiency and low operational reliability seemed to be solved. Oil shale CFB firing at much lower temperatures (∼800°C) than pulverized firing (∼1400°C) results only partial decomposition of oil shale contained carbonates, meaning lower specific fuel consumption values and decreased CO2 emissions. Also fly ash composition and properties has been changed, which results in different new prospectives of ash utilization possibilities, but also some additional ash land filling problems. The paper analyses the first data of Estonian oil shale industrial CFB firing in the light of almost 40 year experience of Estonian oil shale use in power production.

scholarly journals Comparison of the most likely low-emission electricity production systems in Estonia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachariah Baird ◽  
Dmitri Neshumayev ◽  
Oliver Järvik ◽  
Kody M. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Oil Shale ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Levelized Cost Of Electricity ◽  
Low Emission

To meet targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, many countries, including Estonia, must transition to low-emission electricity sources. Based on current circumstances, the most likely options in Estonia are renewables with energy storage, oil shale power plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS), or the combination of renewables and either oil shale or nuclear power plants. Here we compare these different scenarios to help determine which would be the most promising based on current information. For the comparison we performed simulations to assess how various systems meet the electricity demand in Estonia and at what cost.Based on our simulation results and literature data, combining wind turbines with thermal power plants would provide grid stability at a more affordable cost. Using nuclear power to compliment wind turbines would lead to an overall levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) in the range of 68 to 150 EUR/MWh (median of 103 EUR/MWh). Using oil shale power plants with CCS would give a cost between 91 and 163 EUR/MWh (median of 118 EUR/MWh). By comparison, using only renewables and energy storage would have an LCOE of 106 to 241 EUR/MWh (median of 153 EUR/MWh).

scholarly journals Digitalizing the Process of Tracking Technical Condition of the Main Equipment of Energy Providing Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 01020
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Plotnikova ◽  
Artem Bainov ◽  
Yulia Torkunova ◽  
Maria Nadezhdina
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Condition Index ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Repair Work ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Low Efficiency

The existing power facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan face a number of disadvantages related to the system for recording data on the technical condition of boiler and turbine equipment: manual calculation of the parameters of equipment operation, lack of direct access to complete information on the condition of equipment and, as a result, low efficiency in identifying malfunctions, deviations in the operation of equipment, carrying out repair work. Hence, the need for digitalization of the system for recording data on the technical condition of equipment was formed, in response to which software was developed for automating the data recording system and visualizing the technical parameters of reliability at thermal power plants. This proposal is distinguished by the introduction of digital technologies in the process of recording data on the technical condition of equipment, where for the first time the software includes a method for automatically calculating the technical condition index of boiler units. The results of the work will reduce the likelihood of an emergency state of power plant equipment.

scholarly journals State of open wagon body when loading on a rotary car dumper

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (06) ◽  
pp. 1667-1676
Author(s):  
Ilya V. Chepurchenko ◽  
Svetlana V. Korkina
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Safety Margin ◽  
Operational Reliability ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Load Bearing ◽  
Modern Computer ◽  
New Generation

The use of modern means of mechanization of loading and unloading operations in places of mass processing of bulky loads in railway and water connection allows to increase the efficiency and productivity of various types of transport, to ensure the safety of load and rolling stock. The most common method of unloading open wagons in ports, mining enterprises, thermal power plants, etc. is the use of special rotary car dumpers. However, it should be noted that unloading on the car dumpers leads to damage of the carriages structural elements. The article presents the results of strength calculations of the car dumper body under the influence of specified dynamic loads from the expiring cargo. They show that the safety margin of the load-bearing elements of the car body is not enough at critical corners of rotation of the car dumper rotor. The studies were carried out using modern computer modeling methods used in the development of new-generation freight car designs. The software package took into account the effects of dynamic loading as external factors that occur at different corners of the car dumper rotor. The implementation of the results obtained at the design stage of innovative structures of open wagon car bodies will allow predicting the operational parameters of load-bearing structures. The presented studies are aimed at improving the safety and operational reliability of the cargo car fleet.

scholarly journals Comparison of the most likely low-emission electricity production systems in Estonia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261780
Author(s):  
Zachariah Steven Baird ◽  
Dmitri Neshumayev ◽  
Oliver Järvik ◽  
Kody M. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Oil Shale ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Levelized Cost Of Electricity ◽  
Low Emission

To meet targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, many countries, including Estonia, must transition to low-emission electricity sources. Based on current circumstances, the most likely options in Estonia are renewables with energy storage, oil shale power plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS), or the combination of renewables and either oil shale or nuclear power plants. Here we compare these different scenarios to help determine which would be the most promising based on current information. For the comparison we performed simulations to assess how various systems meet the electricity demand in Estonia and at what cost. Based on our simulation results and literature data, combining wind turbines with thermal power plants would provide grid stability at a more affordable cost. Using nuclear power to compliment wind turbines would lead to an overall levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) in the range of 68 to 150 EUR/MWh (median of 103 EUR/MWh). Using oil shale power plants with CCS would give a cost between 91 and 163 EUR/MWh (median of 118 EUR/MWh). By comparison, using only renewables and energy storage would have an LCOE of 106 to 241 EUR/MWh (median of 153 EUR/MWh).

scholarly journals FBC utilization prospects in decentralized cogeneration units in Caucasus region countries

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
George Skodras ◽  
Panayiotis Amarantos ◽  
Emmanuel Kakaras
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Fluidised Bed ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Performance Results

Great differences are encountered among Caucasus region countries with respect to energy resources reserves and economic conditions. Thermal power plants consist of obsolete and inefficient units, while the Soviet-type large heating systems in the area collapsed after 1992 and their reconstruction is considered uneconomic. Renovation needs of the power and heat sector, and the potential of Fluidised Bed Combustion implementations in decentralized cogeneration units were investigated, since operating oil and gas power plants exhibit high fuel consumption, low efficiency and poor environmental performance. Results showed significant prospects of Fluidised Bed Combustion utilization in decentralized cogeneration units in the Caucausus region heat and power sector. Their introduction constitutes an economically attractive way to cover power and heat demands and promotes utilization of domestic energy resources in all of three countries, provided that financial difficulties could be confronted.

scholarly journals Concentrating solar thermal power

2013 ◽  
Vol 371 (1996) ◽  
pp. 20110433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Müller-Steinhagen
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Operating Experience ◽  
Solar Thermal ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Thermal Power Plants ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Solar Thermal Power ◽  
Advanced Planning

In addition to wind and photovoltaic power, concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) will make a major contribution to electricity provision from renewable energies. Drawing on almost 30 years of operational experience in the multi-megawatt range, CSP is now a proven technology with a reliable cost and performance record. In conjunction with thermal energy storage, electricity can be provided according to demand. To date, solar thermal power plants with a total capacity of 1.3 GW are in operation worldwide, with an additional 2.3 GW under construction and 31.7 GW in advanced planning stage. Depending on the concentration factors, temperatures up to 1000 ° C can be reached to produce saturated or superheated steam for steam turbine cycles or compressed hot gas for gas turbine cycles. The heat rejected from these thermodynamic cycles can be used for sea water desalination, process heat and centralized provision of chilled water. While electricity generation from CSP plants is still more expensive than from wind turbines or photovoltaic panels, its independence from fluctuations and daily variation of wind speed and solar radiation provides it with a higher value. To become competitive with mid-load electricity from conventional power plants within the next 10–15 years, mass production of components, increased plant size and planning/operating experience will be accompanied by technological innovations. On 30 October 2009, a number of major industrial companies joined forces to establish the so-called DESERTEC Industry Initiative, which aims at providing by 2050 15 per cent of European electricity from renewable energy sources in North Africa, while at the same time securing energy, water, income and employment for this region. Solar thermal power plants are in the heart of this concept.

scholarly journals Improvement of environmental aspects of thermal power plant operation by advanced control concepts

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mikulandric ◽  
Drazen Loncar ◽  
Dejan Cvetinovic ◽  
Gabriel Spiridon ◽  
Daniel Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power Plant ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Thermal Power Plants ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Advanced Control ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
And Control ◽  
Plant Components

The necessity of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as formulated in the Kyoto Protocol, imposes the need for improving environmental aspects of existing thermal power plants operation. Improvements can be reached either by efficiency increment or by implementation of emission reduction measures. Investments in refurbishment of existing plant components or in plant upgrading by flue gas desulphurization, by primary and secondary measures of nitrogen oxides reduction, or by biomass co-firing, are usually accompanied by modernisation of thermal power plant instrumentation and control system including sensors, equipment diagnostics and advanced controls. Impact of advanced control solutions implementation depends on technical characteristics and status of existing instrumentation and control systems as well as on design characteristics and actual conditions of installed plant components. Evaluation of adequacy of implementation of advanced control concepts is especially important in Western Balkan region where thermal power plants portfolio is rather diversified in terms of size, type and commissioning year and where generally poor maintenance and lack of investments in power generation sector resulted in high greenhouse gases emissions and low efficiency of plants in operation. This paper is intended to present possibilities of implementation of advanced control concepts, and particularly those based on artificial intelligence, in selected thermal power plants in order to increase plant efficiency and to lower pollutants emissions and to comply with environmental quality standards prescribed in large combustion plant directive.

scholarly journals Waste Co-Combustion with a Conventional Fossil Fuel on Power Plants

2020 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 03081
Author(s):  
Roman Bezuglov ◽  
Vladimir Papin ◽  
Evgeniy Dyakonov ◽  
Elena Veselovskaya ◽  
Vladimir Filimonov
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Organic Waste ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Thermal Capacity ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
The Right ◽  
Shed Light

The paper has to shed light into understanding the waste useful and it has an aim to review about possibilities how to using different types of waste to generate energy. The paper highlighted the terms, that renewables it isn’t energy of the future but waste is – at least the future for the next hundred years. It’s very important to use waste by the right way, because of some current methods waste using have a low efficiency. There are several ways of using waste with pretreatment. Nowadays pretreatment includes torrefaction, pelletization, torrefaction of pellets (TOP) and wide spread around the world. It is necessary to compare economic indicators when you want to using some scenario. Using of waste can help us to reduce the pollutions and decrease load to an ambient. There are some advantages to using organic waste to generate energy – it can be considered as a fuel. But it also consists some negatives aspects such as low efficiency due to low thermal values (i.e. specific thermal capacity). Hence, waste using not so unequivocally as it seems at first sight. Thus, here is our understanding for this problem.

scholarly journals Technical efficiency of thermal power units through a stochastic frontier

DYNA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (191) ◽  
pp. 63-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Antonio Marmolejo-Saucedo ◽  
Román Rodríguez-Aguilar ◽  
Miguel Gastón Cedillo-Campos ◽  
María Soledad Salazar-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Thermal Generation ◽  
Electricity System ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Production Function ◽  
Generation Company ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Frontier Production Function

<p class="ADYNAAbstrac"><span lang="EN-US">This work presents a model to obtain a stochastic frontier production function of a Mexican power generation company. The stochastic frontier allows us to evaluate the technical efficiency of an energy producer according of the level of inputs. Electricity generation based on thermal generation is highly expensive due to operational inefficiency of thermal power plants. At the moment, in Mexico, technical efficiency of thermal power units has not been studied for the national electricity system. Therefore, in order to know the productivity levels of thermal generation, an empirical application of the stochastic frontier model is obtained using a panel data of thermoelectric units from the Mexican electricity system for the 2009-2013 period.</span></p>

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