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Power Plant Engg.

This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in the course EME-801: Power Plant Engineering. The course covers various types of power plants including steam, diesel, gas turbine, nuclear, and hydroelectric power plants. Key topics that will be discussed include thermodynamic cycles, fuels and combustion, load estimation, power plant economics and selection, components and systems of different power plant types, operation and maintenance, heat balance and efficiency calculations, and site selection considerations for power plants. The course also addresses electrical systems, instrumentation, pollution control, and references key textbooks on power plant engineering.

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Power Plant Engg.

This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in the course EME-801: Power Plant Engineering. The course covers various types of power plants including steam, diesel, gas turbine, nuclear, and hydroelectric power plants. Key topics that will be discussed include thermodynamic cycles, fuels and combustion, load estimation, power plant economics and selection, components and systems of different power plant types, operation and maintenance, heat balance and efficiency calculations, and site selection considerations for power plants. The course also addresses electrical systems, instrumentation, pollution control, and references key textbooks on power plant engineering.

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EME-801 : POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Unit-I Introduction Power and energy, sources of energy, review of thermodynamic cycles related

to power plants, fuels and combustion calculations. 3 Load estimation, load curves, various terms and factors involved in power plant calculations. Effect of variable load on power plant operation, Selection of power plant units. 2 Power plant economics and selection Effect of plant type on costs, rates, fixed elements, energy elements, customer elements and investors profit; depreciation and replacement, theory of rates. Economics of plant selection, other considerations in plant selection. 3 Unit-II Steam power plant General layout of steam power plant, Power plant boilers including critical and super critical boilers. Fluidized bed boilers, boilers mountings and accessories, Different systems such as coal handling system, pulverizers and coal burners, combustion system, draft, ash handling system, Dust collection system, Feed water treatment and condenser and cooling towers and cooling ponds, Turbine auxiliary systems such as governing, feed heating, reheating , flange heating and gland leakage. Operation and maintenance of steam power plant, heat balance and efficiency, Site selection of a steam power plant. 8 Unit-III Diesel power plant General layout, Components of Diesel power plant, Performance of diesel power plant, fuel system, lubrication system, air intake and admission system, supercharging system, exhaust system, diesel plant operation and efficiency, heat balance, Site selection of diesel power plant, Comparative study of diesel power plant with steam power plant. 2 Gas turbine power plant Layout of gas turbine power plant, Elements of gas turbine power plants, Gas turbine fuels, cogeneration, auxiliary systems such as fuel, controls and lubrication, operation and maintenance, Combined cycle power plants, Site selection of gas turbine power plant 6

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Unit-IV Nuclear power plant Principles of nuclear energy, Lay out of nuclear power plant, Basic components of nuclear reactions, nuclear power station, Nuclear waste disposal, Site selection of nuclear power plants. 3 Hydro electric station Hydrology, Principles of working, applications, site selection, classification and arrangements, hydro-electric plants, run off size of plant and choice of units, operation and maintenance, hydro systems, interconnected systems. 4 Non Conventional Power Plants Introduction to non-conventional power plants (Solar, wind, geothermal, tidal)etc. 2 Unit-V Electrical system

Generators and generator cooling, transformers and their cooling, bus bar, etc. 2 Instrumentation Purpose, classification, selection and application, recorders and their use, listing of various control rooms. 3 Pollution Pollution due to power generation 2 References
1. Power Plant Engineering F.T. Morse, Affiliated East-West Press Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi/Madras. 2. Power Plant Engineering Mahesh Verma, Metropolitan Book Company Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi. 3. Power Plant Technology El-Vakil, McGraw Hill. 4. Power Plant Engineering by P.K. Nag, Tata McGraw Hill. 5. Steam & Gas Turbines & Power Plant Engineering by R.Yadav, Central Pub.House.

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