ME6701 Power Plant Engineering - Syllabus-Semester VII-MECH-BE-Anna University

NotesKhan ME6701 Power Plant Engineering - Syllabus-Semester VII-MECH-BE-Anna University MECH SEM VII Syllabus, MECH SYLLABUS

 

 

 

ME6701                                      POWER PLANT ENGINEERING                                         L  T  P  C

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OBJECTIVES:

• Providing an overview of Power Plants and detailing the role of Mechanical Engineers in their operation and maintenance.

 

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 & Optimisation. 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

OUTCOMES:

• Upon completion of this course, the students can able to understand different types of power plant, and its functions and their flow lines and issues related to them.
• Analyse and solve energy and economic related issues in power sectors.

 

TEXT BOOK:

 

1. Nag. P.K., "Power Plant Engineering", Third Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company

Ltd., 2008.

 

REFERENCES:

1. El-Wakil. M.M., "Power Plant Technology", Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd.,

2010.

2. Black & Veatch, Springer, "Power Plant Engineering", 1996.
3. Thomas C. Elliott, Kao Chen and Robert C. Swanekamp, "Power Plant Engineering", Second

Edition, Standard Handbook of  McGraw – Hill, 1998.

4. Godfrey Boyle, "Renewable energy", Open University, Oxford University Press in association with the Open University, 2004.