Power Plant Engineering

syllabus for a Power Plant Engineering course:

Unit I: Coal-Based Thermal Power Plants

  • Rankine Cycle: Improvisations, layout of modern coal power plants
  • Boilers: Supercritical boilers, Fluidized Bed Combustion (FBC) boilers
  • Turbines and Condensers: Steam and heat rate
  • Subsystems: Fuel and ash handling, draught system, feed water treatment
  • Binary Cycles and Cogeneration Systems

Unit II: Diesel, Gas Turbine, and Combined Cycle Power Plants

  • Cycles: Otto, Diesel, Dual, and Brayton cycles
  • Components: Diesel and gas turbine power plants
  • Combined Cycle Power Plants: Integrated gasifier-based combined cycle systems

Unit III: Nuclear Power Plants

  • Basics of Nuclear Engineering
  • Reactor Types: 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

  • Hydro Electric Power Plants: Classification, layout, and components
  • Renewable Sources: Wind, tidal, solar photovoltaic (SPV), solar thermal, geothermal, biogas, and fuel cell power systems

Unit V: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Issues

This syllabus covers the fundamental aspects of power plant engineering, including various types of power plants, their components, and the economic and environmental considerations involved.

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