Author : Kiran Bala Sachdeva and Karun

This article aims to identify the magnitude, location and source of thermodynamic inefficiencies in thermal power plant. It is hoped that this examination as it includes both energy and exergy analysis will yield new insights in to the performance of steam power plant. Exergy analysis can be particularly effective in identifying ways to optimize the performance of existing operations and designing the plant while energy balance gives heat transfer between the system
and its surrounding.

Keywords: Exergy, Exergy efficiency, Energy losses, Exergy losses, irreversibility.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.2,No.3 (Sept- 2012)