Steam Power Stations for Electricity and Heat Generation

Abstract

Power plants produce electricity, process heat or district heating, according to their task (Stultz and Kitto 1992). Electric power is the only product of a condensation power plant and the main product of a power plant with extraction - condensation turbines, where extraction steam is a by-product. Power plants for process heat generation or combined heat and power (CHP) stations generate electrical power, steam and district heat as their main products. Simultaneous heat and/or steam utilisation, along with power generation, is an effective method to diminish waste heat losses at the cold end of the turbine. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.