Course Code L T P C
POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
ME2V33 3 0 0 3
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The objective of this course is to enable the student,
• To study the coal based thermal power plants.
• To study the diesel, gas turbine and combined cycle power plants.
• To learn the basic of nuclear engineering and power plants.
• To learn the power from renewable energy
• To study energy, economic and environmental issues of power plants
UNIT I COAL BASED THERMAL POWER PLANTS 9
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 9
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 PLANT 9
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 9
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, Biagas and Fuel Cell power systems
UNIT V ENERGY, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES OF POWER PLANTS 9
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
TOTAL: 45 HOURS
COURSE OUTCOMES: On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
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CO1: Explain the layout, construction and working of the components inside a thermal
power plant.
CO2: Explain the layout, construction and working of the components inside a Diesel,
Gas and Combined cycle power plants
CO3: Explain the layout, construction and working of the components inside nuclear
power plants.
CO4: Explain the layout, construction and working of the components inside Renewable
energy power plants
CO5: Explain the applications of power plants while extend their knowledge to power
plant economics and environmental hazards and estimate the costs of electrical
energy production
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Nag. P.K., "Power Plant Engineering", Third Edition, Tata McGraw- Hill Publishing Company
Ltd., 2008.
2. A Textbook of Power Plant Engineering by R.K. Rajput 1 January 2016
REFERENCES:
1. EI-Wakil. M.M., "Power Plant Technology", Tata McGraw - Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2010.
2. Thomas C. Elliott, Kao Chen and Robert C. Swane kamp, "Power Plant Engineering", Second
Edition, Standard Handbook of McGraw - Hill, 1998.
3. Power Plant Engineering by B. Vijaya Ramnath C. Elanchezhian, L. Saravanakumar November
2019.
4. Power Plant Engineering, As per AICTE: Theory and Practice by Dipak Kumar Mandal,
Somnath Chakrabarti, et al. 11 January 201
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