Power Plant Engineering detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering Sandwich (Mech Sandwich) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Mech Sandwich 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 Mechanical Engineering Sandwich 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Mech Sandwich 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VIII scheme and its subjects refer to Mech Sandwich Professional Elective-VIII syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of power plant engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
COAL BASED THERMAL POWER PLANTS 9
Rankine cycle – improvisations, Layout of modern coal power plant, Super Critical Boilers, FBC Boilers, Turbines, Condensers, Steam & Heat rate, Subsystems of thermal power plants – Fuel and ash handling, Draught system, Feed water treatment. Binary Cycles and Cogeneration systems.
Unit II
DIESEL, GAS TURBINE AND COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS 9
Otto, Diesel, Dual & Brayton Cycle – Analysis & Optimisation. Components of Diesel and Gas Turbine power plants. Combined Cycle Power Plants. Integrated Gasifier based Combined Cycle systems.
Unit III
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Unit IV
POWER FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY 9
Hydro Electric Power Plants – Classification, Typical Layout and associated components including Turbines. Principle, Construction and working of Wind, Tidal, Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV), Solar Thermal, Geo Thermal, Biogas and Fuel Cell power systems.
Unit V
ENERGY, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL 9
ISSUES OF POWER PLANTS
Power tariff types, Load distribution parameters, load curve, Comparison of site selection criteria, relative merits & demerits, Capital & Operating Cost of different power plants. Pollution control technologies including Waste Disposal Options for Coal and Nuclear Power Plants.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students would be able to
- Explain the layout, construction and working of the components inside a thermal power plant.
- Explain the layout, construction and working of the components inside a Diesel, Gas and Combined cycle power plants.
- Explain the layout, construction and working of the components inside nuclear power plants.
- Explain the layout, construction and working of the components inside Renewable energy power plants
- Explain the applications of power plants while extend their knowledge to power plant economics and environmental hazards and estimate the costs of electrical energy production.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- El-Wakil. M.M., “Power Plant Technology”, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2010.
- Godfrey Boyle, “Renewable energy”, Open University, Oxford University Press in association with the Open University, 2004.
- Thomas C. Elliott, Kao Chen and Robert C. Swanekamp, “Power Plant Engineering”, Second Edition, Standard Handbook of McGraw – Hill, 1998.
- Power Plant Engineeringby B. Vijaya Ramnath C. Elanchezhian, L. Saravanakumar | 1 November 2019
- Power Plant Engineering, As per AICTE: Theory and Practice by Dipak Kumar Mandal, Somnath Chakrabarti, et al. | 1 January 2019
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