Technologies of low-potential heat utilization on thermal power plants

In this article there are given results of possible efficiency enhancement on thermal power plants with low-potential heat utilization. Intensive usage and restricted stocks of organic fuel creates demand of methods reducing its consumption. Thus, on thermal power plants one of important tasks is increasing of primary energy resources efficiency usage. In the research different thermal schemes based on thermal pumps, thermotransformers and installations using detander-generating aggregates were designed and thermal efficiency of these schemes was determined. Schemes calculation was executed using << Thermoflow >> and << Gate Cycle >> software products. It is shown, that implementation of various low-potential heat utilization technologies at thermal power plants leads to fuel economy. There are presented financial and economic performance indicators for the researched schemes.