ADVANTAGE OF DIESEL POWER PLANT
The advantages of diesel power plants are listed below.
1. Very simple design also simple installation.
2. Limited cooling water requirement.
3. Standby losses are less as compared to other Power plants.
4. Low fuel cost.
5. Quickly started and put on load.
6. Smaller storage is needed for the fuel.
7. Layout of power plant is quite simple.
8. There is no problem of ash handling.
9. Less supervision required.
10. For small capacity, diesel power plant is more efficient as compared to steam power plant.
11. They can respond to varying loads without any difficulty.
DISADVANTAGE OF DIESEL POWER PLANT
The disadvantages of diesel power plants are listed below.
1. High Maintenance and operating cost.
2. Fuel cost is more, since in India diesel is costly.
3. The plant cost per kW is comparatively more.
4. The life of diesel power plant is small due to high maintenance.
5. Noise is a serious problem in diesel power plant.
6. Diesel power plant cannot be constructed for large scale.
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