Power Plant Engineering

Introduction to Power Plants Introduction to the sources of energy: conventional and non-conventional; Principal types of power plants; Present status and future trends; Carbon credits. Thermal Power Plant General layout of modern thermal power plant, Review of Rankine and modified Rankine cycles, Power plant boilers including critical and super critical boilers. Fluidized bed boilers, boilers mountings and accessories. 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.

Hydroelectric Power Plant Hydro-electric plant, General arrangement of hydroelectric power plant, Plant layout, Penstock and water hammer, Specific speed and capacity calculations, Classification of hydro-plant, Low-, medium- and high-head plants, Pumped storage plant, Run-off river power plant, Surge tanks. 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, Integrated Gas fire based Combined Cycle (IGCC) systems. Controlling of air fuel ratio (AFR) in power plant.

Nuclear Power Plants Classification of nuclear reactors, Thermal fission reactors and power plant and their location, Pressurized water reactor, Boiling water reactor, CANDU heavy water reactor, Gas-cooled reactor, Fast breeder reactors, Organic substance cooled reactor, Reactor control, Radiation hazards, Radioactive waste disposal, Nuclear power generation in India. Solar Power Plant Solar energy collectors, Photovoltaic power system, Solar central receiver system, Solar thermal energy, types of solar thermal plant, typical layout and components, solar parabolic trough plants, solar tower power plants, and solar dish power plants. Working principle of concentrating solar thermal power plant and their applications.

Non-Conventional Power Plants Geothermal energy: Hydrothermal systems, Petro thermal systems, Hybrid geothermal fossil systems, Problems associated with geothermal conversion, Wind energy: Components of a wind generator, Horizontal and vertical axis wind mills, Aerodynamic considerations of wind mill design, Coefficient of performance of wind mill rotor, Availability of wind energy in India, Wind power by country. Tidal energy: The simple single pool tidal system, The modulated single pool tidal system, The two-pool tidal system, Ocean thermal energy conversion, Principle of working, Ocean temperature differences, The open or Claude cycle, The closed or Anderson OTEC cycle, Electricity generation from Fuel cells and city garbage.

Electrical system: Introduction to generator and exciters, Earthing of power systems, Power and unit transformer, Circuit breakers, Protective equipment, Switch gear. Power Plant Economics: Types of loads, Effect of variable load on power plant design and operation, Methods to meet variable load, Prediction of future loads, Terminology used in power supply, Cost of electrical energy, Depreciation, Energy rates (tariffs) for electrical energy, Factors affecting economics of generation and distribution of power Environmental Aspects of Power Station Environmental aspects, Different pollutants due to thermal power plant and their effect on human health, Thermal pollution of water and its control, Effluents from power plants and impact on environment, Radiation from nuclear power plant effluents, Methods of pollution mitigation and control.