
Energy and exergy analysis of a coal based thermal power plant
Process Description Coal fired thermal power plant generally operates on Rankine cycle [11] The schematic arrangement of equipments of this power plant is shown in Fig 1 The major components of the plant are high, intermediate and differential low pressure turbines (HPT, IPT and DFLP), boiler (B), pumps (P), deaerator (D), generator (G), condenser (C), low and high pressure feed water