Power Station Turbine Technology Q&A

Author: Kong Qingyuan Wang Yong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Chapter 1: Basic Thermodynamic Knowledge
1. What is temperature? How many common temperature units are there?
2. What is pressure? How many common pressure units are there? How to convert between them?
3. What are gauge pressure, absolute pressure, vacuum, and vacuum degree?
4. How to calculate the absolute pressure and vacuum degree inside a container?
5. What is working medium?
6. What are thermodynamic properties? How many common properties are there? How many basic properties are there?
7. What is specific volume and density? What is the relationship between them?
8. What is equilibrium state?
9. What is standard state?
10. What is thermal energy? What factors does it depend on?
11. What is heat?
12. What is mechanical energy?
13. What is a heat engine? What is an heat exchanger?
14. What is specific heat?
15. What is enthalpy?
16. What is entropy?
17. What is an ideal gas? What is a real gas?
18. What gases in a thermal power plant can be considered ideal gases? What gases can be considered real gases?
19. What is the ideal gas state equation?
20. What is the thermodynamic law? What is its expression?
21. What is an irreversible process?
22. Briefly describe the second law of thermodynamics.
23. What is a thermodynamic process? What are the typical thermodynamic processes?
24. What is a thermodynamic cycle?
25. What is the thermal efficiency of a thermodynamic cycle? What does it indicate?
26. What processes make up the Carnot cycle? How to calculate its thermal efficiency?
27. What is vaporization? How many forms does it take?
28. What is condensation? What are the characteristics of steam condensation?
29. What is dynamic equilibrium?
30. What are saturated water and saturated steam?
31. What are wet saturated steam, dry saturated steam, and superheated steam?
32. What is the critical point? What are the critical parameters of steam?
33. What is shaft work? What is expansion work?
34. What is a nozzle? What types of nozzles are commonly used in power plants?
35. What is the Rankine cycle?
36. How is the Rankine cycle implemented through thermodynamic equipment? What is the function of each equipment? Draw a system diagram of the thermodynamic equipment.
37. What is a reheat cycle?
38. What is the significance of adopting a reheat cycle?
39. What is a reheat cycle?
40. Why is an intermediate reheat cycle adopted?
41. What is a combined cycle? What are the different types?
42. How to apply a back-pressure steam turbine heating cycle? What are its characteristics?
43. How to apply a regulation extraction steam turbine heating cycle? What are its characteristics?
44. What is heat transfer? What are the basic forms of heat transfer?
45. What is flow rate?
46. What is average velocity? What is the difference between it and actual velocity?
47. What are the causes of thermal shock in steam turbines?
Chapter 2: Basic Concepts of Steam Turbines
Chapter 3: Main Equipment of Steam Turbines
Chapter 4: Steam Turbine Control and Protection Systems and Oil Systems
Chapter 5: Auxiliary Equipment of Steam Turbines
Chapter 6: Thermodynamic System Equipment
Chapter 7: Steam Turbine Startup
Chapter 8: Steam Turbine Shutdown
Chapter 9: Normal Operation and Maintenance of Steam Turbines
Chapter 10: Accident Handling of Steam Turbines
Chapter 11: Basic Knowledge of Generators