Title: Steam Surface Condensers : Basic Principles, Performance Monitoring, and Maintenance Author: Richard E. Putman ISBN: 0791801519 / 9780791801512 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 284 Publisher: ASME Year: 2001 Availability: In Stock
Description
Contents
This volume is a comprehensive presentation of analytical theory and real-world practical solutions. It clearly illustrates updated approaches that plant managers and performance engineers can use in judging condenser performance and in making maintenance decisions. The author examines current methods for modeling, diagnosing and improving condenser performance. He describes how to calculate heat transfer coefficients, provides details of the recent ASME Power Test Code PTC 12.2-1998, and explains the significance of heat transfer coefficients in measuring the overall performance of an operating condenser. Further discussion includes condenser cleaning schedules that save money and reduce CO2 emissions, diagnostic methods that help unit operators pinpoint problem areas, monitoring techniques that help predict the onset of tube fouling and deposit accumulation, and proper methods of tube plugging. New topic areas are also explored: assigning a dollar amount and excess carbon emissions to condenser fouling; methods for estimating cooling water flow rate;and performance analysis for multicompartment condensers.
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Nomenclature
Chapter 1 : Basic Heat Transfer Principles Chapter 2 : Condenser Performance Monitoring Chapter 3 : Condenser Performance Modeling Chapter 4 : Model of Turbine Low-Pressure Stage and Estimation of Condenser Duty Chapter 5 : Interactive Model of Condenser and Low-Pressure Turbine Stage Chapter 6 : Case Studies Chapter 7 : Optimization of Condenser Cleaning Schedules Chapter 8 : Economic Importance of Managed Condenser Maintenance Chapter 9 : Unit Operator Diagnostics Chapter 10 : Fouling, Corrosion, and Water Contamination Chapter 11 : On-Site Mechanical Cleaning of Condenser Tubes Chapter 12 : Air and Water Inleakage Detection and Eddy-Current Testing Chapter 13 : Performance Monitoring of Power-Plant Heat Exchangers
Appendix A : Mathematical Procedures
Appendix B : Properties of Saline Water
References
Index