Abstract: Many nuclear stations do not incorporate deaerators in their feedwater heating systems. To attain high turbine cycle performance without a deaerator, a drain pumping system is widely used for ...

Abstract: Power plant safety and relief value vent stacks have generally been sized according to the methods and design criteria published by Max W. Benjamin in the 1940s. Although the method might ...

Abstract: It has been known that drain pumps in nuclear power plants may suffer cavitation under transient turbine load reductions [1]. Although increasing the size and height of the drain tank can ...

Abstract: In a previous paper [1], the analysis of pump suction pressure decay utilizing the varying condensate temperature approach was first introduced. Although the paper provided power plant engineers ...

Abstract: In recent years, mechanical failure of trays and structural damage to steel members inside deaerating sections of power plant deaerators have been encountered during transient load operation of ...

Abstract: As steam-electric generating plant unit sizes increase, and as the capacities of the feedwater pumps increase, the design provision of an adequate suction for the safe operation of the feedwater ...