Thermal and Fired Equipment design detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of thermal and fired equipment design is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9
Principal equipment in Thermal Power Plant, Historical developments of Boiler, Utility, Industrial boilers, Morden trends in boiler design, Basic knowledge of different types of Thermal Fired Equipment, sub critical and super critical boilers – Coal , Oil ,Gas , Pulverised fuel cyclone, FBC, CFBC , MSW , and Stoker firing, Boiler efficiency , auxiliary power consumption , Performance data , Performance Correction Curves
Unit II
BASIS OF BOILERS AND DESIGN 9
Codes- Design and Construction, IBR, ISO, ASME, BS, Heat balance diagram, Boiler parameters, Fuel analysis and variations, Site conditions, Furnace heat loadings, FOT, Plan area loading, Volumetric loading Balanced Draft and Pressurised Furnace, Natural / Controlled Circulation, Constant and Sliding Pressure, Boiler heat transfer surfaces, Flue gas velocities, boiler auxiliaries, Boiler schemes, Boiler Layouts
Unit III
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Unit IV
PRESSURE PARTS AND DESIGN AND MATERIALS 9
Economiser, Drums , Water Walls , Headers , Links , Super Hater , Super Heaters , Reheaters, Tubes , Spiral Tubes , Surface area , Free Gas Area , Metal temperature , LMTD , Acid Due Point Temperature , Carbon steel , Low alloy steel , Titanium alloy steel
Unit V
BOILER AUXILIARIES 9
Air preheaters (APH) – bi sector APH , Tri sector APH, Cold PA System, Hot PA System, Tubular APH, Steam coil Air preheater , FANS – Axial, Radial, Performance curves, MILLS- Tube , Vertical mills , Air quality Control systems ,DustCollection System – Mechanical Precipitator, Electrostatic Precipitator, FGD , SCR , SNCR
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students would be able to
- Explain the concepts of thermal and fired equipment.
- Discuss the basis, design and construction of boilers.
- Describe of typical fuel firing systems in the boiler.
- Discuss the materials requirements for pressure parts.
- Discuss of various boiler auxiliaries system.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Elwakil M, Power Plant Technology, McGraw Hill, New York, 1964
- Steam Generators and Waste Heat Boilers: For Process and Plant Engineers (Mechanical Engineering) by V. Ganapathy
- Steam Generators: Description and Design by Donatello Annaratone
- An Introduction to Coal and Wood Firing Steam Generators (Power Plants Engineering) by J Paul Guyer
- Advances in Power Boilers (JSME Series in Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation) by Mamoru Ozawa and Hitoshi Asano | 28 January 2021
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