Machines. Technologies. Materials.
Vol. 19 (2025), Issue 11, pg(s) 424-427

MACHINES

Isentropic analysis of 320 MW steam turbine cylinders and segments

  • 1 Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia
  • 2 Department of maritime sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia

Abstract

In this paper are presented results of the isentropic analysis related to the cylinders, segments and whole three cylinder steam turbine from the conventional power plant. In the analyzed steam turbine Low Pressure Cylinder (LPC) is the dominant mechanical power producer of all cylinders – it produces 130.16 MW of mechanical power in the real expansion process and it can produce 142.80 MW of mechanical power if the expansion conditions are ideal. The satisfactory isentropic performance of the whole High Pressure Cylinder (HPC) is a combination of two segment’s isentropic performance – one of these segments show extremely good isentropic performance (Seg2), but another segment (Seg1) shows very poor isentropic performance. Both Intermediate Pressure Cylinder (IPC) segments (Seg3 and Seg4) show similar isentropic performance, what result with the balanced IPC operation. LPC has an isentropic efficiency of 91.15%, what is the highest isentropic efficiency of all cylinders from the observed steam turbine. Whole observed steam turbine has an isentropic efficiency of 88.42% what is better isentropic performance in comparison to similar steam turbines from conventional power plants.

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