BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19451014T230000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0630 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 TZNAME:IST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180503T000000Z UID:C45971B0-3A18-4CC4-B2E1-DE42002D2F53 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20180218T104600 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20180219T104600 DESCRIPTION:With an aim to go beyond academics Matrusri Engineering College and the IEEE MEC student branch organized an industrial visit to Vijayawa da Thermal Power Station (VTPS) also known Dr Narla Tata Rao Thermal Power . It was developed under 4 stages\, with the project cost of Rs 193 Crores and Rs 511 Crores respectively. Again with an investment of RS 840 Crores 2 units were commissioned under III Stage. The seventh unit of 500 MW was commissioned in 2009. The station stood first in country during 94-95\, 9 5-96\, 96-97\, 97-98 and 2001-02 by achieving the highest plant load facto r.\n\n45 students of sixth semester Electrical and Electronics Engineering branch who were accompanied by 5 faculty members- Mr. Madhukar\, Mr. Kart heek\, Mr. Anil\, Mrs. Saritha and Mrs. Kalpana. took part in the visit. S tudents were first allowed to see the central control room\, where a clear explanation about the working of plant was given by the employees. Then u nder the guidance of the employees\, students were taken to different sect ions of the plant to observe diverse operations in a power plant. The stud ents were explained how the coal is powdered before feeding it to the boil ers. Different processes like water treatment for generation\, combustion process that includes the operation of diesel gun\, oil gun and powdered c oal\, the steam turbine operation etc.\, were thoroughly explained.\n\nThe objective of the visit is to give overview of the Thermal Power plant whi ch is a coal based power plant where coal is transported from coal mines t o the power plant by railway in wagons or in a merry-go-round system. We h ave seen that Coal is unloaded from the wagons using wagon tippler units\, to a moving underground conveyor belt. This coal from the mines is of no uniform size. So it is taken to the Crusher house and crushed to a size of 20mm. From the crusher house the coal is either stored in dead storage (g enerally 40 days coal supply) which serves as coal supply in case of coal supply bottleneck or to the live storage(8 hours coal supply) in the raw c oal bunker in the boiler house. Raw coal from the raw coal bunker is suppl ied to the Coal Mills by a Raw Coal Feeder. The Coal Mills or pulverizer p ulverizes the coal to 200 mesh size. The powdered coal from the coal mills is carried to the boiler in coal pipes by high pressure hot air. The pulv erized coal air mixture is burnt in the boiler in the combustion zone. Gen erally in modern boilers tangential\n\nfiring system is used i.e. the coal nozzles/ guns form tangent to a circle. The temperature in fire ball is o f the order of 1300˚C. The boiler is a water tube boiler hanging from the top. Water is converted to steam in the boiler and steam is separated fro m water in the boiler Drum. The saturated steam from the boiler drum is ta ken to the Low Temperature Superheater\, Platen Superheater and Final Supe rheater respectively for superheating. The superheated steam from the fina l superheater is taken to the High Pressure Steam Turbine (HPT). In the HP T the steam pressure is utilized to rotate the turbine and the resultant i s rotational energy. From the HPT the out coming steam is taken to the Reh eater in the boiler to increase its temperature as the steam becomes wet a t the HPT outlet. After reheating\, this steam is taken to the Intermediat e Pressure Turbine (IPT) and then to the Low Pressure Turbine (LPT). The o utlet of the LPT is sent to the condenser for condensing back to water by a cooling water system. This condensed water is collected in the Hotwell a nd is again sent to the boiler in a closed cycle. The rotational energy im parted to the turbine by high pressure steam is converted to electrical en ergy in the Generator.\n\nThe state of the art construction and technologi es awed the visiting delegation. The students had a great experience in vi siting the plant and got an insight of the actual working of the thermal p ower plant while enforcing their theoretical knowledge on Power Systems\, Switch-Gear and Protection\, Control Systems and Electrical Machines.\n\nC o-sponsored by: Matrusri Engineering College\n\nIbrahimpatnam Circle\,\, V ijayawada\, Andhra Pradesh 521456\, Vijayawada\, Andhra Pradesh\, India\, 521456 LOCATION:Ibrahimpatnam Circle\,\, Vijayawada\, Andhra Pradesh 521456\, Vija yawada\, Andhra Pradesh\, India\, 521456 ORGANIZER:ieeemecsb@gmail.com SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Industrial visit to Vijayawada Thermal Power Station\, India URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/172168 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>With an aim to go beyond academics Matrusr i Engineering College and the IEEE MEC student branch organized an industr ial visit to Vijayawada Thermal Power Station (VTPS) also known Dr Narla T ata Rao Thermal Power. It was developed under 4 stages\, with the project cost of Rs 193 Crores and Rs 511 Crores respectively. Again with an invest ment of RS 840 Crores 2 units were commissioned under III Stage. The seven th unit of 500 MW was commissioned in 2009. The station stood first in cou ntry during 94-95\, 95-96\, 96-97\, 97-98 and 2001-02 by achieving the hig hest plant load factor.</p>\n<p>45 students of sixth semester Electrical a nd Electronics Engineering branch who were accompanied by 5 faculty member s- Mr. Madhukar\, Mr. Kartheek\, Mr. Anil\, Mrs. Saritha and Mrs. Kalpana. took part in the visit. Students were first allowed to see the central co ntrol room\, where a clear explanation about the working of plant was give n by the employees. Then under the guidance of the employees\, students we re taken to different sections of the plant to observe diverse operations in a power plant. The students were explained how the coal is powdered bef ore feeding it to the boilers. Different processes like water treatment fo r generation\, combustion process that includes the operation of diesel gu n\, oil gun and powdered coal\, the steam turbine operation etc.\, were th oroughly explained.</p>\n<p>The objective of the visit is to give overview of &nbsp\;the Thermal Power plant which is a coal based power plant where coal is transported from coal mines to the power plant by railway in wago ns or in a merry-go-round system. We have seen that Coal is unloaded from the wagons using wagon tippler units\, to a moving underground conveyor be lt. This coal from the mines is of no uniform size. So it is taken to the Crusher house and crushed to a size of 20mm. From the crusher house the co al is either stored in dead storage (generally 40 days coal supply) which serves as coal supply in case of coal supply bottleneck or to the live sto rage(8 hours coal supply) in the raw coal bunker in the boiler house. Raw coal from the raw coal bunker is supplied to the Coal Mills by a Raw Coal Feeder. The Coal Mills or pulverizer pulverizes the coal to 200 mesh size. The powdered coal from the coal mills is carried to the boiler in coal pi pes by high pressure hot air. The pulverized coal air mixture is burnt in the boiler in the combustion zone. Generally in modern boilers tangential< /p>\n<p>firing system is used i.e. the coal nozzles/ guns form tangent to a circle. The temperature in fire ball is of the order of 1300˚C. The boi ler is a water tube boiler hanging from the top. Water is converted to ste am in the boiler and steam is separated from water in the boiler Drum. The saturated steam from the boiler drum is taken to the Low Temperature Supe rheater\, Platen Superheater and Final Superheater respectively for superh eating. The superheated steam from the final superheater is taken to the H igh Pressure Steam Turbine (HPT). In the HPT the steam pressure is utilize d to rotate the turbine and the resultant is rotational energy. From the H PT the out coming steam is taken to the Reheater in the boiler to increase its temperature as the steam becomes wet at the HPT outlet. After reheati ng\, this steam is taken to the Intermediate Pressure Turbine (IPT) and th en to the Low Pressure Turbine (LPT). The outlet of the LPT is sent to the condenser for condensing back to water by a cooling water system. This co ndensed water is collected in the Hotwell and is again sent to the boiler in a closed cycle. The rotational energy imparted to the turbine by high p ressure steam is converted to electrical energy in the Generator.</p>\n<p> The state of the art construction and technologies awed the visiting deleg ation. The students had a great experience in visiting the plant and got a n insight of the actual working of the thermal power plant while enforcing their theoretical knowledge on Power Systems\, Switch-Gear and Protection \, Control Systems and Electrical Machines.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR