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    This document outlines the course details for an Advanced Power Plant Engineering elective course. The course aims to help students understand improvements to steam and gas turbines, advanced power cycles, advances in nuclear and MHD power plants, combining different power plant operations, and environmental and economic issues related to power plants. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics like Rankine and gas turbine cycles, binary and combined cycles, nuclear power plants, combining different power plant types, and load curves and power plant performance and costs. The course objectives are to provide an advanced understanding of modern power plant technologies and their analysis, optimization, and integration.

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    This document outlines the course details for an Advanced Power Plant Engineering elective course. The course aims to help students understand improvements to steam and gas turbines, advanced power cycles, advances in nuclear and MHD power plants, combining different power plant operations, and environmental and economic issues related to power plants. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics like Rankine and gas turbine cycles, binary and combined cycles, nuclear power plants, combining different power plant types, and load curves and power plant performance and costs. The course objectives are to provide an advanced understanding of modern power plant technologies and their analysis, optimization, and integration.

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    GVPCE(A) M.Tech.

    Thermal Engineering 2013


    ADVANCED POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
    (Elective – I)

    Course Code: 13ME2306 L P C


    4 0 3
    Pre requisites: Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering

    Course Educational Objectives:


    To make the student understand
    1. various improvements possible in steam and gas turbines
    2. advanced power cycles
    3. advances in nuclear and MHD power plants.
    4. combined operations of different power plants
    5. environmental issues related to the power plants.
    6. economic analysis of power plants

    Course Outcomes:
    The student will be able to
    1. suggest improvements possible in steam and gas turbines
    2. advanced power cycles
    3. explain advances in nuclear and MHD power plants
    4. explain how to combine different power plants
    5. handle issues related to the power plants
    6. explain economic analysis of power plants

    UNIT – I
    Rankine Cycle – performance – thermodynamic analysis of cycles, cycle
    improvements, super heaters, reheaters – condenser and feed water
    heaters – operation and performance – layouts, gas turbine cycles –
    optimization – thermodynamic analysis of cycles – cycle improvements
    – multi spool arrangement. intercoolers, reheaters, regenerators –
    operation and performance – layouts.

    UNIT- II
    Binary and combined cycle – coupled cycles – comparative analysis of
    combined heat and power cycles – IGCC – AFBC/PFBC cycles –
    thermionic steam power plant.

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    GVPCE(A) M.Tech. Thermal Engineering 2013

    UNIT- III
    Overview of Nuclear power plants – radioactivity – fission process –
    reaction rates –diffusion theory, elastic scattering and slowing down –
    criticality calculations – critical heat flux – power reactors – nuclear
    safety. MHD and MHD – steam power plants.

    UNIT- IV
    Advantages of combined working – load division between power
    stations – storage type hydro-electric plant in combination with steam
    plant – run of river plant in combination with steam plant – pump
    storage plant in combination with steam or nuclear power plant –
    coordination of hydro-electric and gas turbine stations – coordination of
    hydro-electric and nuclear power station – coordination of different
    types of power plants.
    Air and water pollution –acid rains – thermal pollution – radioactive
    pollution –standardization – methods of control.

    UNIT-V
    Load curves–effects of variable load on power plant design and
    operation–peak load plant– requirements of peak load plants–cost of
    electrical energy–selection of type of generation– selection of generating
    equipments–performance and operating characteristics of power plants.

    TEXT BOOKS:
    1. Nag, P.K., “Power Plant Engineering”, Tata Mcgraw Hill Publishing
    Co Ltd, New Delhi, 1998.
    2. Arora and Domkundwar, “A course in power Plant Engineering”,
    DhanpatRai and CO, 2004.

    REFERENCES:
    1. Haywood, R.W, “ Analysis of Engineering Cycles”, 4th Edition,
    Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1991.
    2. Wood, A.J., Wollenberg, B.F, “Power Generation, operation and
    control”, John Wiley, New York, 1984.
    3. Gill, A.B., “ Power Plant Performance”, Butterworths, 1984.
    4. Lamarsh, J.R., “Introduction to Nuclear”, Engg.2nd edition, Addison-
    Wesley, 1983.
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