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ME1506 Power Plant Engineering PDF

This document outlines the modules covered in the ME1506 Power Plant Engineering course. Module I discusses power plant economics, load factors, hydroelectric power plants, and site selection. Module II covers diesel and gas turbine power plants, including their components, starting methods, cycles, and combustion chambers. Module III examines steam power plants, including their layout, fuel handling, boilers, condensers, cooling systems, and environmental aspects. Module IV focuses on non-conventional energy sources such as solar, wind, biomass, ocean, geothermal, magnetohydrodynamic, fuel cells, and thermionic generation. The document lists several reference books for the course material.

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ME1506 Power Plant Engineering PDF

This document outlines the modules covered in the ME1506 Power Plant Engineering course. Module I discusses power plant economics, load factors, hydroelectric power plants, and site selection. Module II covers diesel and gas turbine power plants, including their components, starting methods, cycles, and combustion chambers. Module III examines steam power plants, including their layout, fuel handling, boilers, condensers, cooling systems, and environmental aspects. Module IV focuses on non-conventional energy sources such as solar, wind, biomass, ocean, geothermal, magnetohydrodynamic, fuel cells, and thermionic generation. The document lists several reference books for the course material.

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ME1506 Power Plant Engineering

Module I
Power plant economics base load and peak load power plants estimation of load load
curve load factor diversity factor capacity factor use factor selection of units
number and size scheduling operation cost of energy depreciation and replacement
economics of plant selection. Hydroelectric power plants general layout types of dams
penstock, draft tubes, surge tanks - power house equipments site selection
Module II
Diesel engine power plant Layout Components of a diesel power plant starting methods
Gas turbine open and closed cycles thermodynamics cycles regeneration reheating
intercooling efficiency and performance of gas turbines. combustion chambers of gas
turbines cylindrical annular and industrial type combustion chamber design combustion
efficiencyadvantages and disadvantages Gas Turbine power plants classification
elements of a Gas Turbine power plant
Module III
Steam power plants - General layout fuel handling systems types of furnaces stokers
burning systems types of firing : stokers, pulverized coal burners and fluidized bed
combustion - power plant boilers, mountings and accessories - dust and ash handling systems
draft and chimney calculations condensers cooling systems - Environmental aspects of
thermal power systems Nuclear power plants - Fundamentals of nuclear fission nuclear
power plants reactors classification components layout of simple plant nuclear power
safety and waste disposal.
Module IV
Non conventional energy sources solar radiation and its measurement Solar energy
collectors Applications of solar energy - Wind energy conversion site selection wind
energy collectors Energy from biomass -ocean energy possibilities and future scope
Ocean Thermal electric conversion(OTEC) Tidal energy - geothermal energy- Magneto
Hydro Dynamic (MHD) power Fuel cells - thermo electric power - thermionic generation.
Reference
1) E.I. Wakil, Power Plant Engineering, McGraw Hill
2) P.K. Nag, Power Plant Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill
3) Morse, Power Plant Engineering, Van Nostrand Co.
4) Lee J.F., Power Station Engineering and Economy, Tata McGraw Hill
5) Robert Loftness, Nuclear Power Plants, McGraw Hill
6) Verma Mahesh, Power Plant Engineering
7) Rai G D, Non Conventional Energy Sources
8) Power plant Engg Gas turbine theory : Cohen Cohen & Rogers

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