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:

·    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.

 

 

 

 

 

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