Most electric power is produced by steam turbines. This is because the steam cycle is well suited to the conversion of heat to work and steam turbines can be built in a wide range of capacities up to about 1500 MW. Steam turbines are basically very simple having fixed blades to accelerate the steam and moving blades to absorb the resulting kinetic energy. The moving blades are mounted on a rota...

In steam power plants, any improvement in the cooling towers thermal performance will cause the condenser's temperature to decrease; which in turn enhances the power plant's efficiency. Due to water shortage, many power plants all around the world rely on natural draft dry cooling towers (Heller type). In these cooling towers, condenser's exit hot water is pumped to vertical or horizontal finne...

Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is one efficient and mature technology for recovering heavy oil bitumen resources. The key underlying mechanism the growth of steam chamber after injecting steam. However, due to complex geological environment, thief zones exist have a prejudicial effect on development chamber, thus impacting ultimate heavy-oil recovery. In this work, our objective investi...

Due to the importance of problems implementing energy-saving technologies in modern conditions, one promising areas is use gas turbines for combined heat and power generation. One effective development technical re-equipment widespread highly economical steam plants turbines. The operation turbine unit “Aquarius” SE NPCG “Zorya-Mashproekt” with injection into combustion chamber, which operates ...