Electric Power ›› 2016, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (1): 33-36.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.2016.01.033.04

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Finite Element Analysis and Optimization on the Dynamic Stress of the High-Temperature High-Pressure Steam-Water Pipelines of Thermal Power Plants

ZHAO Xinghai, ZHAI Song   

  1. College of Energy and Power Engineering, Northeast Dianli University, Jilin 132012, China
  • Received:2015-05-08 Online:2016-01-18 Published:2016-02-04
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by the Education Department of Jilin Province Science and Technology Research Project of the12th Five-Year Plan (No. 2013109), the Education Department of Jilin Province Science and Technology Research Project of the11th Five-Year Plan (No. 2008050).

Abstract: To improve the security of the high-temperature high-pressure steam-water pipelines of thermal power plants, the theoretical study on the dynamic stress caused by vibrations and dynamic loads is conducted, and the spectrum analysis on the water hammer phenomenon is also studied to figure out the measures to decrease and optimize the dynamic stress. The water hammer phenomenon of the main steam pipe of a 600-MW power plant is used as the calculation object to compute the dynamic stress caused by the dynamic steam hammer loads through the establishment of the pipeline finite element model. The results show that the dynamic stress under dynamic steam hammer loads is much greater than the static stress of pipelines. The stress can be attenuated by controlling the pipeline vibrations actively, adding damper to decrease the effect of steam hammer and adjusting the inherent frequency of the pipelines to avoid the external excitation.

Key words: power plant, steam-water pipeline, dynamic stress, steam hammer

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