Power Plant Trip..!!


yesterday.. me and my colleagues made a trip to a Power Plant somewhere in N.Sembilan.. heheh.. cannot mention where it is as it is sensitive.. anyway.. we are there to assess the noise climate there due to the operations of the Plant.. at the same time..we measured some noise data for noise model validation and some noise data for special machines and equipments for future use..

so i got to go into the power generation hall rather they call it turbine hall where u can see pwer generation machines that basically consists of a gas turbine, generator and some other assisting machines.. a little warm in the hall as the temperature is kinda high due to the heat generated by combustion of natural gas n the running of high speed machine.. this Power plant can generate up to 400 MW of electricity..

supposedly there are some issues between the Plant n the residents next to the boundary (like bout 5 metres away from the boundary) on noise issue.. hence we are brought in to do some assessment and then recommend some mitigation measures in order to solve the conflict.

in the pic is me.. the devil on the roof top of the turbine hall... behind me u can see there;s an exhaust stack (the red and white thing) where it channels exhaust from the turbine.. it is estimated that the heat energy from the exhaust can have energy of at least 50 to 70 MW per stack.. which can be very useful to generate steam for other usage such as generating power using steam turbine generators.. thus u can imagine how hot it is at the opening of the stack.. probably a bird that flies through will be cooked.. the wall of the stack is already damn hot.. thus i didnt want to climb up there to get the noise level.. but we will get the level from some other method.. ehehe.. trade secret..

and the white thing that looks like a mushroom is an exhaust fan to suck air from the turbine hall into the environment.. well as i mentioned earlier inside the hall is hot.. so these fans will exhaust the heat n keep the hall cool.. mayb not that cool.. ehehe.. standing near to the fan u can experience a combi of heat n high velocity wind.. and of course.. since i'm bout 10 - 15 meters above ground and close to the beach.. i'm taking in also strong breeze from the sea.. that;s made the whole experience interesting.. oh yea.. i was up there to take noise level of the exhaust fan n estimated value of the stack noise..

too bad forgot to take some pics on the gas turbine generators.. n the condition in the hall.. oh yea just to mention.. the exhaust duct at ground level is like 2 and a half times of my height.. there;s once in another plant it was like 4 or 5 times of me.. i had a pic some where but couldn;t locate it.. anyway.. it was really fun in this trip...

especially when my boss brought us to this restaurant called Seaview.. damn.. there;s this assam sambal fish on banana leaves and 'kam hiong' bamboo clams..oooh... sedap nya........ !!! gonna visit that place again lar.. too bad lar.. should ve taken the pics of the food.. i'm sure my friend like Jellyikan n Alicia would enjoy it.. hehehe...