Ghorashal Power Plant
• Ghorasal Power Plant is one of the
largest power plants in Bangladesh.
• Established in 1974 North East of
Dhaka near to the Shitalakshya
River.
• Total install capacity of this plant is
1315 MW.
• Which is the 10% of total power of
national grid.
• It has total 7 units for power
generation.
• Now the present De-rated capacity
is 955 MW.
Unit no Installed De-rated Present Status
Capacity(MW) Capacity(MW)
Unit-1 55 40 Running
Unit-2 55 50 Running
Unit-3 210 170 Running
Unit-4 210 190 Overhauling
Unit-5 210 190 Running
Unit-6 210 Damaged
Unit-7 365 315 Running
Schematic Arrangement of Ghorashal power plant
• Water Treatment Plant
• Electrolyzer Plant
• Boiler
• Steam Turbine
• FD Fan
• ID Fan
• Generator
• Generator Protection System
Water Treatment Plant 4
• Important for production of steam and cooling of
used steam.
• The source of the raw water is Shitalakhya river.
• This raw water is purified and softened by
mechanical and chemical processes and produced
demi water.
Electrolyzer Plant
• Electrolyzer is used for electro-chemical
decomposition of water to obtain hydrogen and
oxygen.
• Produced hydrogen is used for generator cooling
and oxygen is released to the atmosphere.
• Electrolyzer has these headers: the upper one is
used for removal of gases and electrolyte and the
lower one serves for returning cooled electrolyte to
cells.
Boiler
Generator
Steam turbine
In Ghorashal
power plant
steam is used to
rotate steam
turbine.
• The steam turbines used have three different sections.
High pressure cylinder (HPC)
Intermediate pressure cylinder (IPC)
Low pressure cylinder (LPC)
FD Fan
• Forced draughtt fan is used to collect air from nature.
• In the steam power plant there are two forced draught
fans which are used to collect air.
ID Fan
• ID (Induced Draught) fan is always located between dust
collector and chimney.
• ID fan will take the hot flue gases from furnace via dust
collector (dust separation system or Fume Extraction
system) and will deliver to chimney.
• ID fan will produce the negative pressure in the furnace to
remove the flue gases from furnace via electrostatic
precipitators and to push the flue gases to chimney.
Arrangement of FD Fan & ID Fan
Ratings of 55 MW Generator
Type TB-60-2
KVA 68750
KW 55000
Power factor 0.80
Frequency 50 HZ
RPM 3000
Number of Phase 3
Phase connection Y(star)
Rotor voltage 400 V
Rotor current 1445 A
Stator voltage 11.5 KV
Stator current 2761 A
Rating of 210 MW Generator
Type TIB-200 MT3
KVA 247000
KW 210000
Power factor 0.85
Frequency 50 HZ
RPM 3000
Number of Phase 3
Phase connection Y(star)
Rotor voltage 430 V
Rotor current 1950 A
Stator voltage 15.75 KV
Stator current 7698 A
Cooling System
Water Cooling
Hydrogen Cooling
A control room or operation
center is a room serving as a
central space where a large
physical facility or
physically dispersed service
can be monitored and
controlled
Combined Cycle Power Plant in Ghorasal Power Plant (unit 7)
• A combined-cycle power plant uses both gas turbines and a
steam turbine together .
• It produce up to 50 percent more electricity from the same
fuel than a traditional simple-cycle plant.
• The waste heat from the gas turbine exhaust routed directly
to the heat recovery steam generator to produce steam.
• Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plant can achieve
thermal efficiency of around 54% in base-load operation.
• Combining two or more thermodynamic cycles result in
improved overall efficiency, reducing fuel costs.
Air Intake System
• The air is drawn through the large air inlet section where it is
cleaned cooled and controlled.
• Heavy duty gas turbine are able to operate successfully in a
wide variety of climates and environments due to inlet air
filtration
Gas Turbine
• A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of
internal combustion engine.
• It has an upstream rotating compressor coupled to a
downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in between.
Heat Recovery Steam Generators
• A heat recovery steam generator or HRSG is an energy
recovery heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas
stream normally from a Gas Turbine exhaust.
• Cooling system
• Chimney
• A chimney is a structure which provides ventilation
for hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler to outside
atmosphere.
Substations
Bus Bar
Power Transformer
Bushing
Cooling System of PT
Conservator
Dehydrating Breathers
Auxiliary Transformer
Current Transformer
Potential Transformer
Protective Devices of GPS
Bus Bar
• Bus bar is a copper wire which carries a
large amount of current in a very high
voltage.
• In the substation of GPS, there are 132 KV
and 230 KV bus bars.
• An electrical conductor that’s makes a
common connection between several
circuits .
Power Transformer
• Power transformers are the transformers which are used for changing the
voltage levels starting from kV to MV.
• Power transformer is the main apparatus of any sub-station of Bangladesh.
That’s why these sub-stations are known as transformer sub-station.
• In Ghorashal Power Plant the sub-station is also transformer sub-station.
• Bushing
• Bushing is a hollow insulator through which the conductors carrying
power from the alternator or from the grid are connected to the
transformer.
• Transformer high and low voltage side can be detected follow the
bushing .
• The sides which has high and wide bushing are high voltage side and
the side which has less number of bushing are low voltage side.
Cooling System of Power Transformer
• As the power transformer functions at high voltage so huge
amount of heat will be produced in the transformer.
• For primary cooling purpose a cooling fan at the bottom of the
power transformer is connected.
Conservator
• The transformer oil inside the transformer tank is heated due to
very high voltage.
• So this heat may cause expansion of the transformer oil.
• Conservator is used to stored the expansion of the oil.
Dehydrating Breathers
• A dehydrating breather removes most of the moisture from the
air, which is drawn into the conservator as the transformer
cools down.
Potential Transformer
• Protective Devices of Ghorasal Power Plant
• Lightning Arrester
• Lightning arrester is used at to protect the
equipments of substation from the lighting
surge.
• It has a high voltage terminal and a ground
terminal
• In Ghorasal power plant polymer metal
oxide and zinc oxide arresters are mainly
used.
Circuit Breaker
• Oil Circuit Breaker
• Air Blast Circuit Breaker
