Balancing economics and environmental friendliness - the challenge for supercritical coal-fired power plants with highest steam parameters in the future

Published By SIEMENS

• By Jens Rosenkranz, Dr. Andreas Wichtmann
• Published October 2006
• 15 Page(s)

Siemens has developed for the European power market a 600 MW single unit concept together with several partners. This plant concept fulfils the requirement to balance reliable power supply, sustainable use of existing resources and economic operation. The Reference Power Plant NRW (RPP NRW) is designed for an inland location and achieves a net efficiency of 46 %. This paper describes results of the turbine development. Some specials of the water steam cycle optimization of the concept study Reference Power Plant North Rhine-Westphalia will be given. Furthermore a view in the future of steam power plants will be given.