Syllabus 21PME33 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING

 

VELAMMAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, MADURAI

(AUTONOMOUS)

Department of Mechanical Engineering

 

21PME33		POWER PLANT ENGINEERING	L	T	P		C
			3	0	0		3
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
·    To demonstrate the overview of thermal power plants ·    To illustrate diesel, gas turbine and combined cycle power plants. ·    To interpret nuclear power plant ·    To interpret various renewable energies ·    To calculate the power tariff and load factors
UNIT I	COAL BASED THERMAL POWER PLANTS					10
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					10
Otto, Diesel, Dual & Brayton Cycle - Analysis & Optimization. Components of Diesel and Gas Turbine power plants.  Combined Cycle Power Plants.  Integrated Gasifier  based Combined Cycle systems.
UNIT III	NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS					7
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					10
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					8
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
COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course, learners will be able to CO1: Examine the function and the parts of the coal based Thermal Power plant. CO2: Demonstrate the power plants based on gas power cycles. CO3: Examine the Nuclear Reactors in Nuclear power plant. CO4: Illustrate power from Renewable energy sources. CO5: Report the energy, economic and Environmental issues of power plant.

 

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B.E. – MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (I TO VIII SEMESTERS)                    BoS Chairman                        R-2021 (CBCS)

 

TEXT BOOKS:

1.   Nag. P.K., "Power Plant Engineering", 3rd   Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2008 2.   El-Wakil. M.M., "Power Plant Technology", 1st Edition Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2010. 3.   Arora and Domkundwar, “Power plant engineering” 8th Edition, Dhanpat rai & co. pvt. Ltd. 2016

REFERENCES:

1.   Black & Veatch, Springer, "Power Plant Engineering", 1st Edition,1996. 2.   Thomas C. Elliott, Kao Chen and Robert C. Swanekamp, "Power Plant Engineering", Second Edition, Standard Handbook of McGraw – Hill, 1998. 3.   Godfrey Boyle, "Renewable energy", Open University, Oxford University Press in association with the Open University, 2004.