ME 8792- Power Plant Engineering (Class A)
Rankine cycle - improvisations, Layout of modern coal power plant, Super Critical Boilers, FBC Boilers, Turbines, Condensers, Steam & Heat rate, Subsystems of thermal power plants – Fuel and ash handling, Draught system, Feed water treatment. Binary Cycles and Cogeneration systems
Otto, Diesel, Dual & Brayton Cycle - Analysis & Optimisation. Components of Diesel and Gas Turbine power plants. Combined Cycle Power Plants. Integrated Gasifier based Combined Cycle systems
Basics of Nuclear Engineering, Layout and subsystems of Nuclear Power Plants, W orking of Nuclear Reactors : Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), Pressurized Water Reactor (PW R), CANada Deuterium- Uranium reactor (CANDU), Breeder, Gas Cooled and Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors. Safety measures for Nuclear Power plants
Hydro Electric Power Plants – Classification, Typical Layout and associated components including Turbines. Principle, Construction and working of W ind, Tidal, Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV), Solar Thermal, Geo Thermal, Biogas and Fuel Cell power systems
Power tariff types, Load distribution parameters, load curve, Comparison of site selection criteria, relative merits & demerits, Capital & Operating Cost of different power plants. Pollution control technologies including Waste Disposal Options for Coal and Nuclear Power Plants
Reference Book:
1. El-W akil. M.M., "Power Plant Technology", Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2010. 2. Godfrey Boyle, "Renewable energy", Open University, Oxford University Press in association with the Open University, 2004. 3. Thomas C. Elliott, Kao Chen and Robert C. Swanekamp, "Power Plant Engineering", Second Edition, Standard Handbook of McGraw – Hill, 1998
Text Book:
1. Nag. P.K., "Power Plant Engineering", Third Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2008
