Syllabus 21PME33 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
VELAMMAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, MADURAI
(AUTONOMOUS)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
21PME33 |
POWER PLANT ENGINEERING |
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COURSE
OBJECTIVES: |
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· 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 |
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UNIT I |
COAL BASED
THERMAL POWER PLANTS |
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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. |
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UNIT II |
DIESEL, GAS
TURBINE AND
COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS |
10 |
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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. |
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UNIT III |
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS |
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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. |
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UNIT IV |
POWER FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY |
10 |
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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. |
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UNIT V |
ENERGY, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES OF POWER PLANTS |
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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. |
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TOTAL: 45 PERIODS |
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COURSE
OUTCOMES: |
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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. |
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