AGNEL INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY AND
DESIGN
Course:
Class:
Course Instructor:
Year:
MECH. ENGG.
DEPT.
Schedule of Instruction
M.E. 8.2 Power Plant Engineering
Final Year Mechanical Engineering, Sem VIII
M. Prabhakaran / B. Mahalingesh, Asst. Prof. /Mech.
Jan-11-2016 to May-06-2016
Scheme of Instruction
Examination
Duration of Semester End Examination : 3 Hrs.
Teaching
Total no. of lectures per week : 03 hours
Maximum Marks for Semester End Examination : 100
Tutorial per week : 01 hour per Batch
Maximum Marks For Internal Assessment : 25
Internal Test 1 :
Internal Test 2 :
Total No. of Working Weeks: 18
Schedule of Instruction
MOD.
DESCRIPTION
SCHEDULED
MODULE 1
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.1.4
Factors affecting Selection of site,
Principal types of the power plants ,
Combustion of fuel
Schematic Diagrams and relative merits of
Steam power plant ,Gas Diesel power
plant
Schematic Diagrams and relative merits of
Hydro Power Plants, Present status of
Power generation in India.
11/01/16
12/01/16
14/01/16
15/01/16
1.2.1
Load curves, load duration curves
18/01/16
1.2.2
Connected load, maximum load , peak
load,
19/01/16
1.2.3
Base load, and peak load power plants
21/01/16
1.2.4
1.2.5
Load factor, plant capacity factor, plant
use factor, demand factor, diversity factor.
Performance at variable load of power
plants
22/01/16
25/01/16
1.2.6
heat rate and incremental heat rate curves
28//01/16
1.2.7
load sharing among generators and prime
movers,
29/01/16
ACHIEVED
REMARKS
1.2.8
load shading between power stations
01/02/16
1.2.9
Cost analysis
02/02/16
1.2.10
Selection of type of generation
04/02/16
1.2.11
Economics in plant selection
04/02/16
1.2.12
Economic load shearing.
04/02/16
MODULE 2
2.1.1.
2.1.2
2.1.3
Rankine cycle, Rankine Cycle with
Reheating
Rankine cycle, Rankine Cycle with
Regeneration, Binary Vapour Cycle
Steam Power Plants with Process
Heating , , cogeneration
05/02/16
08/02/16
09/02/16
2.1.4
Numericals
09/02/16
2.2.1
Introduction to thermal power plant
11/02/16
2.2.2
Detailed layout of thermal power plant
11/02/16
2.2.3
Fuel for thermal power plants
12/02/16
2.2.4
Selection of thermal power plants
12/02/16
2.2.5
Thermal power plants handling
15/02/16
2.2.6
Storage preparation
16/02/16
2.2.7
Feeding
18/02/16
2.2.8
Burning of fuels
19/02/16
2.2.9
Ash handling
26/02/16
2.2.10
Dust collection
26/02/16
2.2.11
Draught system
02/03/16
2.2.12
Principle of Fluidized bed combustion
03/03/16
MODULE 3
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.1.5
Nuclear Power Plants: Introduction
7/3/16
Classification, Site Selection and Working
of Various Components
Pressurized Water Reactor and Boiling
Water Reactor
Gas Cooled Reactor and Heavy Water
Reactor
10/3/16
Nuclear Power Plants in India
15/3/16
8/3/16
14/3/16
3.1.6
Nuclear Waste Disposal
17/3/16
3.2.1
Gas Turbine Power Plants: General
Aspects
21/3/16
3.2.2
Gas Turbine Fuels
22/3/16
3.2.3
Modified Gas Turbine Cycles
28/3/16
3.2.4
Combined Cycle Power Plant
29/3/16
3.2.5
Numericals
4.1.1
4.1.2
4.1.3
4.1.4
31/3/16 &
7/4/16
MODULE 4
Introduction, Wind Power Plants, Wind
11/4/16
Electricity Economics
Tidal Power Plants, Solar Power Plants
Geothermal Power plants, Biogas Power
Plants
Thermo electric Conversion Systems,
Thermoionic conversion systems
12/4/16
18/4/16
19/4/16
4.1.5
Photovoltaic Power System, MHD
21/4/16
4.1.6
Fuel Cells, Nuclear Batteries
25/4/16
4.2.1
4.2.2
Introduction, Pollution from Thermal
Power Plants, Gaseous Emissions and its
Control
Particulate Emission, Solid Waste
Disposal
26/4/16
28/4/16
4.2.3
Pollution from Nuclear Power Plants
2/5/16
4.2.4
Pollution from Hydro Electric Power
Plants
3/5/16
4.2.5
Solar Power Generating Stations
5/5/16
Text Books
1. Nag P.K.: Power Plant Engineering, TMH
2. Domkiundwar V.S.: Power Plant Engineering. Dhanpat Rai & Sons
3. Rao G.D.: Non Conventional Energy Sources. Dhanpat Rai & Sons.
Reference Books
1. Sukhatme S.P. Solar Energy, TMH
2. Leon Freris, David Infield, Renewable Energy in Power Systems. John Wiley
3. Power station Engineering and Economy by Bernhardt G.A. skrotzki and william A.Vopat Tata Mc
Graw Hill Publishing Campany Ltd., New Delhi
4.Power Plant Engg. : M.M. El-Wakil McGraw Hill 1985.