(i) The easier and simplest approach is to uprate the power
plant by rewinding the stators of 250 KW machines and
uprating them to 500 KWeach. Thus, enhancing the capacity
of plant to 2.5 MW.
(ii) The second approach is to install one generator-turbine set of
500 KW in the bay left (for reasons unknown) and thus
enhancing capacity to 3 MW.
(iii) Third option is to enhance the capacity to 5.5 MW with 4
machines of 1 MW each and 2 machines of 750 KW each.
However, the 3.0 MW and 5.5 MW options have been
weighed here economically. Additional generation in million
units (MU) has been computed by multiplying uprated capacity
by 8.760 and additional benefit by multiplying additional
generation(in KWh) by 4.00 as shown in Table 4
below: