Saturday, March 23, 2013

Calculate Specific Speed,Submergence and Overall Efficiency of Pumped Storage Plant

A new software to calculate Specific Speed,Submergence and Overall Efficiency of Pumped Storage Plant was developed.

The software can help students,researchers,engineers to calculate the specific speed,submergence,Potential of Cavitation in the flow and efficiency of pumped storage plants along with the L/h ratio to find the economic requirements of the plant if Normal Speed,Generation and Pump Efficiency,frequency factor,gross head are known.


The Software can calculate :

Specific Speed from Normal Speed,Discharge and Gross Head

Submergence from Specific Speed and head
Overall Efficiency of Pumped Storage Plant from Generator and Pump Efficiency,k value,Gross Head and Discharge.
Potential of Cavitation is estimated from Critical Cavitation,Effective,Suction and Barometric head of water.
The economic requirements of the pumped storage plant can be estimated from dividing Length of Tail Race by Effective Head.Lesser is the ration more economical will be the Pump Storage Plant.

Calculate

Friday, March 15, 2013

Load,Utilization,Capacity,Diversity Factors

These factors can help in analyzing the performance of a power plant and the impact of varying demand upon and requirements to satisfy the same.How much resource the power plant is utilizing,what is the average load,how much the plant is satisfying the demand etc. can be described by various factors widely applied throughout the world to know the "features of the electrical load"

The factors which are mainly utilized to analyze the features of the electrical load are :

Load Factor : Daily,Monthly,Annual;
Capacity Factor,
Utilization Factor,
Diversity Factor and
Firm Power