. A natural gas-fired furnace in a textile plant is used to provide steam at 130 o C. At times of…

. A natural gas-fired furnace in a textile plant is used to provide steam at 130oC. At times of high demand, the furnace supplies heat to the steam at a rate of 30 MW. The plant also uses up to 6 MW of electrical power purchased from the local power company. The plant management is considering converting the existing process plant into a cogeneration plant to meet both their process heat and power requirements. Your job is to come up with some designs. Designs based on a gas turbine or a steam turbine are to be considered. First decide whether a system based on a gas turbine or a steam

. A natural gas-fired furnace in a textile plant is used to provide steam at 130oC. At times of high demand, the furnace supplies heat to the steam at a rate of 30 MW. The plant also uses up to 6 MW of electrical power purchased from the local power company. The plant management is considering converting the existing process plant into a cogeneration plant to meet both their process heat and power requirements. Your job is to come up with some designs. Designs based on a gas turbine or a steam turbine are to be considered. First decide whether a system based on a gas turbine or a steam turbine will best serve the purpose, considering the cost and the complexity. Then propose your design for cogeneration plant complete with pressures and temperatures and the mass flow rates. Show that the proposed design meets the power and process heat requirements of the plant.