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Regenerative Plant
Prepared by Dr. Assim Adaraje
Regenerative Plant

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T
The feed water is
1 heated by steam
bleeding out from
6 1 steam turbine. The
average temperature

5 of heat absorption
4
1 process increases
3 2
then.
s

The flow of steam bleeding out from the turbine

 100%
The flow of steam entering the turbine
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Steam turbine

b
a
boiler
2

7
5 condenser
6
3
Feed water pump drainage pump
Feed water heater 4

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 Differentiate Between Open and Closed Feed
Water Heater
Open feed water heater Closed feed water heater
Open and simple More complex in design
Good heat transfer characteristics Less effective heat transfer
Direct mixing extraction steam and feed In-direct mixing feed water and steam in a
water temperature in a pressure vessel shell and tube type heat exchanger.
Closed feed water pumps don’t require
Pump is required to transfer the water into pump and can operate with the pressure
next stage in the cycle. difference between the various heaters in
the cycle.
Requires more area Requires less area
Less expansive More expensive

All Modern day power plants are employing the

combination of open and closed feed water heaters to
maximise the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
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 The more stages of bleeding steam, the higher
efficiency the cycle has
T

1
1
7

2
6

4 5
1  1   2
3 2

s
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 The efficiency of regenerative Cycle
As to a two stages regenerative cycle, the properties:
p1, t1 , pa , pb , p2 are available. If neglect the pump
work, the T-s diagram should be as following.

qin  h1  h6
T 1

1 a

6 1 qexhaust  (h2  h3 )(1  1   2 )

b
2
4
5

1  1   2
w  qin  qexhaust
qin  qexhaust

3 2

s qin
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 As to the 1st stage heater
1 and  2 1 ha

h6 h5

1  1

According to the first law of thermodynamics

h6  h5 (1  1 )  1ha
h6  h5
1 
ha  h5 9
 As to the 2nd stage heater
2 hb

h4
h5

1  1 1  1 -  2
According to the first law of thermodynamics

h5 (1  1 )  h4 (1  1   2 )   2 hb
(1  1 )(h5  h4 )
2 
hb  h4 10
Closed Feed Water Heater (Pumped Condensate)
Closed Feed Water Heater (Throttled Condensate)
Closed Feed Water Heater (Expanded
Condensate)
EX. 1: A closed feed heater is supplied with
condensate (states (6)) at 0.1 bar. The bled steam is
taken from the turbine (state (3))at 30 bar and 0.95 dry.
Calculate the flow rate of bled steam needed to just
produce saturated water at feed heater outlets (states
(7).

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