PLANT DESCRIPTION

GENERAL
The plant is located at Tanir Bavi, on the bank of Gurupur river near Mangalore, Karnataka, India. The Tanir Bavi barge mounted Combined Cycle power project consists of four (4) gas turbines, four (4) once through steam generators and one (1) steam turbine. The grid requirements and the load dispatch advise by the KPTCL load dispatch instructions decide the operation patterns of the facility. Primarily the plant is designed to operate as base load plant. The plant generates net output of 220MW electric power for the grid.

Description of Major Components and Systems

1) GAS TURBINE Four (4) LM6000PC gas turbine and generators. The generators are completely enclosed, synchronous type, air cooled type two (2) pole, 3000 rpm, three (3) phase, 50Hz, and rated voltage of 11kV. LM6000PC gas turbine and speed reduction gear box (RGB) is packaged in the enclosure. The generator is coupled with gas turbine with RGB on the front of gas turbine (air intake side of gas turbine). The LM6000PC gas turbine consists of 5-stage low pressure compressor (LPC), 14-stage variable geometry high pressure compressor(HPC), an annular combustor, 2-stage high pressure turbine (HPT), 5stage low pressure turbine(LPT), an accessory drive gearbox(ADG) and accessories.

2) Once Through Steam Generator (OTSG) Four (4) duel pressure, once through, heat recovery steam generator. The OTSG produces superheated HP-steam and LP-steam. The OTSG uses no supplementary firing. Titanium alloy tubes designed for dry run and no bypass stack.

3) Steam Turbine One (1) ABB single casing and dual pressure (HP & LP), condensing steam turbine and one (1) water to air cooled generator. The steam turbine has no steam extraction. 1) Condenser Divided water box, titanium tube, axial type deaerating condenser cooled by sea water 2) Steam Turbine Bypasses Two (2) HP and two (2) LP pneumatic actuated steam turbine bypass system. The HP and LP steam bypass is designed for 100% mass flow at 100% pressure. The steam bypasses are used for start-up, shut-down, load rejection of the steam turbine and also for dumping the steam into the condenser in case of a steam turbine trip.

1) Circulating Water System (CWS)

The circulating water system is a once through type sea water cooling system. Four (4 x 33.3%) circulating water pumps at onshore supply the sea water to the deaerating condenser, G/T inlet air chiller, and closed cooling water coolers. Transformers Each of two gas turbine and steam turbine generator has its own generator step-up transformers, 11 kV / 220 kV, to evacuate the energy to the grid. Gas turbine step-up transformers are consisted of three windings each of which is connected to each gas turbine.

Operating Modes

The gas turbine can operate in different modes: l Simple Cycle Mode The simple cycle operation mode is considered on the basis of the dry running of OTSG. l Combine Cycle Mode The normal operating mode with GT and ST in operation. l Combined Cycle Mode with Steam Bypass Operation The GT, OTSG, water/steam cycle and cooling water system are in operation without the ST. This operation mode occurs after a ST trip during start up and shut down