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ME8792 Power Plant Engineering Syllabus

This document outlines the 2017 syllabus for the ME8792 Power Plant Engineering course at Grace College of Engineering. The course provides an overview of various power plants and the role of mechanical engineers in their operation and maintenance. It is divided into 5 units that cover topics such as coal-based thermal power plants, diesel and gas turbine power plants, nuclear power plants, renewable energy power plants, and the economics and environmental issues related to power generation. The course aims to explain the layout, construction and working of components within different power plant types and discuss applications to power plant design as well as economic and environmental factors.

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ME8792 Power Plant Engineering Syllabus

This document outlines the 2017 syllabus for the ME8792 Power Plant Engineering course at Grace College of Engineering. The course provides an overview of various power plants and the role of mechanical engineers in their operation and maintenance. It is divided into 5 units that cover topics such as coal-based thermal power plants, diesel and gas turbine power plants, nuclear power plants, renewable energy power plants, and the economics and environmental issues related to power generation. The course aims to explain the layout, construction and working of components within different power plant types and discuss applications to power plant design as well as economic and environmental factors.

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GRACE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ME8792 Power Plant Engineering

2017-Regulation Syllabus

OBJECTIVE:
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 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 PLANTS 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, Biogas 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 PERIODS

OUTCOMES: Upon the completion of this course the students will be able to
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 BOOK:
1. Nag. P.K., "Power Plant Engineering", Third Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing
Company Ltd., 2008.

REFERENCES:
1. El-Wakil. 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.

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