POWER PLANT
ENGINEERING (A70353)
UNIT-I
Introduction
to the Sources of Energy
Resources and
Development of Power in India.
Steam Power
Plant:
Plant
Layout, Working of different Circuits, Fuel and handling equipments, types of
coals, coal handling, choice of handling equipment, coal storage, Ash handling
systems.
Combustion
Process:
Properties
of coal
Overfeed and
underfeed fuel beds, traveling grate stokers, spreader stokers, retort stokers,
pulverized fuel burning system and its components.
Combustion
needs and draught system,
Cyclone
furnace, design and construction,
Dust
collectors,
Cooling
towers and heat rejection.
Corrosion
and feed water treatment.
UNIT-II
Internal
Combustion Engine Plant:
DIESEL POWER
PLANT:
Introduction
IC Engines,
types, construction
Plant layout
with auxiliaries
Fuel supply
system, air starting equipment, lubrication and cooling system
Super
charging.
Gas Turbine
Plant:
Introduction
classification
Construction
- Layout with auxiliaries
Principles
of working of closed and open cycle gas turbines.
Combined
Cycle Power Plants and comparison.
Direct
Energy Conversion:
Solar
energy, Fuel cells, Thermo electric and Thermo ionic,
MHD
generation.
UNIT-Ill
Hydro
Electric Power Plant:
Water power
- Hydrological cycle / flow measurement
Drainage
area characteristics
Hydrographs
Storage afld
Pondage
Classification
of dams and spill ways.
Hydro
Projects And Plant:
Classification
Typical
layouts -plant auxiliaries
Plant
operation pumped storage plants.
Power From
Non-Conventional Sources:
Utilization
of Solar- Collectors-
Principle of
Working, Wind Energy-types
HAWT, VAWT
-Tidal Energy.
UNIT-IV
Nuclear
Power Station:
Nuclear fuel
- breeding and fertile materials
Nuclear
reactor - reactor operation.
Types of
Reactors:
Pressurized
water reactor
Boiling
water reactor
sodium-graphite
reactor
Fast Breeder
Reactor
I
tomogeneous Reactor
Gas cooled
Reactor
Radiation
hazards and shielding
Radioactive
waste disposal.
UNIT-V
Power Plant
Economics And Environmental Considerations:
Capital cost
Investment
of fixed charges
Operating
Cost
General
arrangement of power plant distribution
Load Curves,
Load duration curves
Definitions
of connected load
Maximum
demand, Demand factor
Average
load, Load Factor, diversity factor- related exercises
Effluents
from power plants and impact on environment
Pollution
and pollution standards
Methods of
pollution control