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THIS SITE

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Here is a turbine engineer web site.

While dealing with the Cocohouse web site I built a bit of web design skills.

Internet is a great thing that made our world smaller and all the human kind closer to each other.  As turbine people around the world are also some kind of humans the internet made us closer either. 🙂

Hence I decided to put online some of my turbine  and control expertise gained through a lifetime of hands-on experience in the power engineering.  It is to be used by turbine engineers or anybody who wants to become one.

This site contains some of my papers and applications that are available for your non-commercial use.  The applications are listed and briefly explained below:

  • Steam Turbine Thermodynamic
    A simplified core steam turbine design.  The calculus is based on input steam parameters and design conditions.  It predicts the design operating point and the expected output. It also calculates any off- design operating point and predicted output in a case of inlet pressure deviates from the rated one. This kind of assessment is particularly required in geothermal engineering world.
  • ThreeP (bang-bang)
    A time simulation with a bang-bang loop controlling the water level in a vessel.  Was taught this type of bang-bang loop by my teacher prof Sherman back than at the university.  Believe it is quite superior to whatever I’ve seen around since. This application allows you to tune the whole thing, play with it and understand how ThreeP works.
  • TMC Playground
    TMC stands for Turbo Machinery Controls.  This application demonstrate some basic TMC features. It simulates two turbo-generators that can operate in all kind of real life scenarios.  Also demonstrates some advanced load sharing features that I developed through the years of dealing with the matter. Its User Manuals explain well how to go around the playground.
  • Synch Playground
    This application simulates synchronizing generator to grid in a manual mode as it ones used to be.  These days AutoSynch unit does it all by itself.  The simulation gives operators and engineers idea of what is actually happening during synchronizing process. It has its User’s Manual as well.
  • Turbine Dynamic Simulators
    Stand alone C# developed software package that mimic dynamic behavior of various turbo-machines. It creates reliable and robust closed loop environment that can be integrated in all kind of applications.

There is also a part here called Linear Control Theory. That part was put together by prof. Šerman with me just shaping it up for the web publishing. Had a privilege to be prof. Šerman university student and later on worked together through some tough projects.

Originally we had a commenting option enabled for this site. However, spammers were keep flooding us with things so the comments are disabled for now.  If you have any comment or question regarding the contents here please forward it to perica.skoric@arirang.hr

 

THE TURBINE BOOK

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Kostjuh-Frolov

A.Kostyuk and V.Frolov, STEAM AND GAS TURBINES

At university they taught us the turbine theory and practice using this book.

It was also used as guidance to my older colleagues when they were establishing  Jugoturbina turbine design practice.

This is “the” book for learning turbines if you are limited to the English language as myself.

The steam turbine section has a lot of details, numbers, examples.  Following those you would be able design a turbine for real.

The gas turbine section presents you with the basics that can be easily extrapolated to wherever are your needs.

Drop mi a line if you are interested in *.pdf

GEOTHERMAL INTEGRATED CONTROL

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I haven’t been involved with geothermal power field since year 2000.

Here is what we did for the Wayang Windu project in Indonesia.

Geotherml paper

At the time Fuji Electric installed there the largest geothermal steam turbine ever, though it might not be the largest any more.

We implemented a concept not previously used in geothermal plant control.  Used “turbine follow” approach, used normally in conventional and nuclear plants.  Worked well at the end.

Like all new ideas it was not accepted without some resistance.

I gave the technology and supervised the engineering. however, there were many others pushing it through. Some of them are in the paper authors list.

In the meantime Fuji Electric installed another unit there.  Guess they extended the integrated concept further.  Would like to hear from my Fuji Electric friends how that all went through.

 

 

HOW FAST NEEDS TO BE TURBINE PLC GOVERNOR?

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( A STUDY BASED ON TURBINE OVERSPEED PROTECTION )

INTRODUCTION

Virtually all turbines are required to operate either at a fixed speed or over a range of fix speeds. Operating speed can range from less than 100 RPM for low head hydro turbines to up to 500,000 RPM for some micro gas turbines. The operating speed is held constant by ensuring that the input power matches the power needed by the driven machine. That balance is maintained by control system usually called the “governor”.

Relying on the governor only is not sufficient to guarantee safe turbine operation. Since the early turbine designs there have always been two independent systems responsible for keeping turbine within the safe operating speed range, they are governor and overspeed protection.

The first governors and overspeed units were mechanical devices. Further on hydraulics took over,  later on to be replaced by analog electronic.  However, these days governors and overspeed units are normally PLC devices driven by a specially designed software.

Since PLC took over turbine control there is always a discussion on how fast the PLC needs to be to do the job.

This paper is dealing with the same issue. It is trying to quantify overspeed protection requirements for prompt reaction. It is done by combining real world data with dynamic modelling and simulating.
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