Met63 Power Plant Engineering
Met63 Power Plant Engineering
Met63 Power Plant Engineering
Unit I
Rankine Cycle: Classification Reheat cycle Regenerative cycle Reheat
regenerative cycle. Binary vapour cycle. Steam generators: Classification modern
high pressure generators Accessories : Feed water Pump, feed water heaters
/economiser, air pre heaters, Super heaters, separators, Separator drums, scale
cleaners, soot blowers Fuels : method of firing Fluidised bed boilers. (12 hours)
Unit II
Air handling system:forced dranght fans, primary and secondary air system for solid
fuels flue gas path; method of producing draught : natural, induced draughts
induced draught fans flue gas treatment for pollution:cyclone separator, elec
troCstatic precipitator chimney calculation of chimney height C Bottom ash
handling system. Feed water treatment: demineralised water, treatment processes :
mechanical, chemical processes Duration fuel handling system: solid fuels
pulveriserd fuels, liquid and gaseous fuels supply system. (12 hours)
Unit III
Steam injectors steam nozzles flow through nozzles nozzle efficiency Effect
of super heating supersaturated (or) metastable expansion of steam
in a nozzle steam turbines classification velocity diagrams Compounding
impulse turbine Reaction turbine C Blade profiles of impulse and reaction turbines
Calculation of blade height, width leakage prevention. (12 hours)
Unit IV
Gas turbine plant cycle classification simple cycle regenerative cycle reheat
cycle regenerative reheat cycle interCcooling. Steam and gas turbine Power
plants cycle analysis. Nuclear fuels coolants moderators radiation s
hield Nuclear reactor: different types Nuclear Power Plant Layout Waste
disposal. (12 hours)
Unit V
Fluctuating loads terms and definitions, load curves, effect of variable load,
methods to meet variable load pea load plants: demand, requiremen
ts and load analysis. Power plant economics: Estimation of cost of electrical energy,
selection of type of generation and equipment, economic analysis of performance
and operating characteristics, methods of tariff for electrical energy.
(12 hours)
Text Books :
1. P.K.Nag, Power Plant Engineering, Tata McG
raw Hill, 2000.
2. P.C.Sharma, Power Plant Engineering, Dewan
Sanjeev Kumar Kataria, 1994.
Reference Books :
1. Frederick T.Morse, Power Plant Engineering
, Affiliated EastCwest Press Ltd., 1953.
2. William A.Vapert, Power Station Engineerin
g and Economy, Tata McGraw Hill, 1972.
3.
M.D.Burghardt, Engineering Thermodynamics with Appl