SYLLABUS FOR SEMESTER - VIII ( POWER PLANT ENGG)

09ME802                          POWER PLANT ENGINEERING                  

OBJECTIVE:           

·         To understand the various components, operations and applications of different types of power plants.

1. STEAM POWER PLANT                                                                              

Layout of steam power plant – boilers - Modern high pressure and supercritical boilers -- Preparation and handling of coal - Pulverizer - Dust collector - Ash removal; Stokers - Different types - Pulverized fuel burning ; Draught - Different types - Chimney design - Selection of blowers, Cooling towers - Different types - Analysis of pollution from thermal power plants - Waste heat recovery, Fluidized bed boilers.

2. INSTRUMENTATION, TESTING OF BOILERS, POWER PLANT ECONOMICS       

CO2 recorders - Automatic controls for feed water, steam, fuel, air supply and combustion, Boiler testing and trails - Inspection and safety regulations. Economics of power plant - Actual load curves, fixed costs – Operating costs - Variable load operation.

3. HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER PLANT                                                                          

Layout of hydel power plant- classification –working – components – layout of pumped storage power plant. Solar power plant- classification – components –working principle.

4. DIESEL AND GAS POWER PLANT                                                                  

Layout of Diesel power plant- Important components – performance analysis – Layout of gas power plant – classification of gas turbine cycles – components – relative thermal efficiencies of different cycles. Wind mill: layout –components - working.

5. NUCLEAR, MHD POWER GENERATION AND WIND MILL                                Elementary treatment - Nuclear fission, chain reaction - Pressurized water reactors, boiling water reactors, gas cooled reactors - Fast breeder reactors, MHD power cycle principles

TEXT BOOKS

1. Arora, S.C and Domkundwar, S, “A Course in Power Plant Engineering”, Dhanpat Rai and Sons, TMH, 1998.
2. Nag P.K, “Power Plant Engineering”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1998.
3. Bernhardt G. Askrotzki and William A. Vopat, “Power Station Engineering and Economy”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1972.
4. Frederick T. Mores, “Power Plant Engineering”, Affiliated East-West Press Private Ltd., 1953.

REFERENCES

1. Nagpal, G.R, “Power Plant Engineering”,  Khanna Publishers, 1998.
2. Joel Weisman and Roy Eckart,  “Modern Power Plant Engineering”, Prentice Hall International Inc., 1985.