Compare the Calculations of Steam Extraction Efficiency of Power Plant Turbine by Simple Heat Balance Method and Equivalent Enthalpy Drop Method

At present, the calculation method of steam extraction efficiency of power plant turbine have five methods: heat balance method, equivalent enthalpy drop method, cyclicfunctional method, composite structure method and matrix method. In this paper, a 600MW grade subcritical thermal power plan is take as an examplefor comparing the calculation by the simple heat balance method and the equivalent enthalpy drop method. The result shows that the computational results of simple heat balance method agree with equivalent enthalpy drop method. So simple heat balance method can be used to replace equivalent enthalpy drop method in order to reduce calculation amount in practicalapplication.