Design Optimization and Dynamic Simulation of Steam Cycle Power Plants ...
Introduction. Steam cycles have been used for electric power generation from coal since the early 1900's. These first coalfired power units featured outputs in the range 110 MW and the steam generator already included an economizer, an evaporator, and a superheater (Harvey et al., 2020).According to the same reference, the first steam cycle had an efficiency of only % while those ...