Monday, January 5, 2015

ME6701 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING

ME6701 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING syllabus-subject-notes-pevious-year-questions-papers-bank

OBJECTIVES:
 Providing an overview of Power Plants and detailing the role of Mechanical Engineers in their
operation and maintenance.

UNIT I COAL BASED THERMAL POWER PLANTS 10
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.

UNIT II DIESEL, GAS TURBINE AND COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS 10
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.

UNIT III NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS 7
Basics of Nuclear Engineering, Layout and subsystems of Nuclear Power Plants, Working of Nuclear
Reactors : Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), CANada Deuterium-
Uranium reactor (CANDU), Breeder, Gas Cooled and Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors. Safety measures for Nuclear Power plants.

UNIT IV POWER FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY 10
Hydro Electric Power Plants – Classification, Typical Layout and associated components including
Turbines. Principle, Construction and working of Wind, Tidal, Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV), Solar
Thermal, Geo Thermal, Biogas and Fuel Cell power systems.

UNIT V ENERGY, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES OF POWER PLANTS 8
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.

OUTCOMES:
 Upon completion of this course, the Students can able to understand different types of power
plant, and its functions and their flow lines and issues related to them.
 Analyse and solve energy and economic related issues in power sectors.

TEXT BOOK:
1. P.K. Nag, Power Plant Engineering, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., Third
Edition, 2008.

REFERENCES:
1. M.M. El-Wakil, Power Plant Technology, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2010.
2. Black & Veatch, Springer, Power Plant Engineering, 1996.
3. Thomas C. Elliott, Kao Chen and Robert C. Swanekamp, Standard Handbook of Power Plant
Engineering, Second Edition, McGraw – Hill, 1998.
4. Godfrey Boyle, Renewable energy, Open University, Oxford University Press in association with
the Open University, 2004.

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