Cost of Steam Thermal Power Plant

A steam thermal power station is a power station in which heat energy is converted to electric power. In most of the places in the world the turbine is steam-driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. Certain thermal power stations also are designed to produce heat energy for industrial purposes, or district heating, or desalination of water, in addition to generating electrical power.

Knowing the correct cost of steam thermal power plant is important, thermal power plant cost contains equipment cost, cost of building up a civil structure for the power plant, fuel cost, salary of operator, maintenance cost, miscellaneous cost and so on.

Take an example of fuel costs, almost all coal, nuclear, geothermal, solar thermal electric, and waste incineration plants, as well as many natural gas power stations are thermal. Natural gas is frequently combusted in gas turbines as well as boilers. The waste heat from a gas turbine, in the form of hot exhaust gas, can be used to raise steam, by passing this gas through a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) the steam is then used to drive a steam turbine in a combined cycle plant that improves overall efficiency. In actual use, the power station is basically burning coal, fuel oil, natural gas or biomass. Therefore, the fuel cost is not the same because of different fuel.

It is not very to accurately calculating the cost of a power plant as the cost is directly proportional to the quality of equipment. Therefore, if you would like to get the exact cost of steam thermal power plant, please feel free to consult our online customer service.