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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

POWER PLANT ENGIEERING


(Professional Elective –III)

IV-B.Tech-I-Sem. L T P C
Subject Code : 21L03701 3 0 0 3
Pre Requisite: Nil
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to
1. illustrate the concepts of energy sources, steam power plants and combustion process
2. explain the working principles of diesel and gas-turbine power plants
3. establish the hydro electric power plant with various layouts
4. outline the concepts of nuclear power plants
5. determine optimum parameters for power plants
Unit-I 10 hours
Introduction to the Sources of Energy: Resources and Development of Power in India.
Steam Power Plant: Plant Layout, Working of different Circuits, Fuel and handling equipment, types
of coals, coal handling, choice of handling equipment, coal storage, Ash handling systems.
Combustion Process: Properties of coal - overfeed and underfeed fuel beds, traveling grate stokers,
spreader stokers, retort stokers, pulverized fuel burning system and its components, combustion needs
and drought system, Fluidized Bed Combustion, cyclone furnace, design and construction, Dust
collectors, cooling towers and heat rejection.
Unit-II 09 hours
Diesel Power Plant: Introduction - IC Engines, types, construction - Plant layout with auxiliaries -
fuel supply system, engine starting equipment, lubrication and cooling system - super charging,
Turbocharging. Gas Turbine Plant: Introduction - classification - construction - Layout with
auxiliaries - Principles of working of closed and open cycle gas turbines. Combined cycle power
plants and comparison.
Unit-III 10 hours
Hydro Electric Power Plant: Water power-Hydro logical cycle / flow measurement, Hydro graphs,
storage and Poundage, classification of dams and spill ways.Hydro Projects and
Plant: Classification-Typical layouts, plant auxiliaries-plant operation pumped storage plants.
Unit-IV 09 hours
Nuclear Power Station: Nuclear fuel-breeding and fertile materials -Nuclear reactor - reactor
operation. Types of Reactors: Pressurized water reactor, Boiling water reactor, sodium-graphite
reactor, fast Breeder Reactor, homogeneous Reactor, Gas cooled Reactor, Radiation hazards and
shielding radioactive waste disposal.
Unit-V 10 hours
Power Plant Economics and Environmental Considerations: Capital cost, investment of fixed
charges, operating costs, general arrangement of power distribution, Load curves, load duration curve.
Definitions of connected load, Maximum demand, demand factor, average load, load factor, diversity
factor -related exercises.
Textbooks:
1. A Text Book of Power Plant Engineering / Rajput / Laxmi Publications.
2. Power Plant Engineering! P.C.Sharma / S.K.Kataria Pub.
3. A Course in Power Plant Engineering: Arora and S. Domkundwar.
References:
1. Power Plant Engineering: P.K.Nag, 2nd Edition, TMH.
Power plant Engg, Elanchezhian, I.K. International Pub.

Srinivasa Institute of Engineering and Technology (UGC –Autonomous) Page 26

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