Optimization of Balance of Plant Buildings through a Database of Building Components

Abstract

Power plants have structures such as storage sheds, pipe rack, service building, diesel generator building, electrical building, compressor building, and fire water pump house building. Selection of buildings required to maintain the balance of power plant has been done for study, as they are necessary in all power plant buildings for their proper and efficient functioning.

Power plant layout is generalized and if another plant of same capacity is to be constructed at a different location, then attempt is made that same layout can be used. As layout of the plant remains the same, the only change exists in structural configuration i.e. roof level, foundation level, bay width, etc. of various balance of plant buildings. Also the variation in topography, affects the design in respect of variation in seismic zone. The majority of balance of plant buildings are moment resisting framed structures; the combination of seismic load with dead load is governing, so here an attempt has been made to study effect of brick infills in framed structures. Here a comparison of bare frames and buildings with brick infills has been done, so as to develop template to start with preliminary design. Also push over analysis on 1 to 2 buildings will be performed to study the behavior of Balance of Plant buildings.

This report includes introduction to power plants, which further explains classification of power pants, different loading and design considerations. To understand behavior of different power plant buildings, a hypothetical building with various structural configuration and different seismic zone has been considered and has been modeled using SAP software. The push over analysis on 1 to 2 buildings has been done and its results are tabulated. Analysis and Design for various members of the building has been carried out using Indian Standards. In this piece of work, an attempt has been made to study the behavior of buildings with bare frames and with brick infills. The pushover analysis has been introduced in B.O.P. buildings. Also the results obtained by performing push over analysis have been presented.