Power Plant Engineering detail syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (ME), 2021-22 scheme is taken from AKTUs official website and presented for the AKTU B.Tech students. For the course code (KME076), exam duration, teaching hr/week, practical hr/week, total marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration, credits, and other details do visit complete semester subjects post given below.
For the ME 7th Sem Syllabus for AKTU B.Tech 2021-22 Scheme you can visit ME 7th Sem 2021-22 Scheme. For the Departmental Elective-5 scheme of ME 7th Sem 2021-22 regulation do refer to Departmental Elective-5 ME 7th Sem scheme. The detail syllabus for power plant engineering is as follows.
Course Outcomes:
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Unit I
Introduction to Power Plants Introduction to the sources of energy: conventional and non-conventional; Principal types of power plants; Present status and future trends; Carbon credits. Thermal Power Plant General layout of modern thermal power plant, Review of Rankine and modified Rankine cycles, Power plant boilers including critical and super critical boilers. Fluidized bed boilers, boilers mountings and accessories. Feed water treatment and condenser and cooling towers and cooling ponds, Turbine auxiliary systems such as governing, feed heating, reheating, flange heating and gland leakage. Operation and maintenance of steam power plant, heat balance and efficiency, Site selection of a steam power plant.
Unit II
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Unit III
Nuclear Power Plants Classification of nuclear reactors, Thermal fission reactors and power plant and their location, Pressurized water reactor, Boiling water reactor, CANDU heavy water reactor, Gas-cooled reactor, Fast breeder reactors, Organic substance cooled reactor, Reactor control, Radiation hazards, Radioactive waste disposal, Nuclear power generation in India. Solar Power Plant Solar energy collectors, Photovoltaic power system, Solar central receiver system, Solar thermal energy, types of solar thermal plant, typical layout and components, solar parabolic trough plants, solar tower power plants, and solar dish power plants. Working principle of concentrating solar thermal power plant and their applications.
Unit IV
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Unit V
Electrical system: Introduction to generator and exciters, Earthing of power systems, Power and unit transformer, Circuit breakers, Protective equipment, Switch gear. Power Plant Economics: Types of loads, Effect of variable load on power plant design and operation, Methods to meet variable load, Prediction of future loads, Terminology used in power supply, Cost of electrical energy, Depreciation, Energy rates (tariffs) for electrical energy, Factors affecting economics of generation and distribution of power Environmental Aspects of Power Station Environmental aspects, Different pollutants due to thermal power plant and their effect on human health, Thermal pollution of water and its control, Effluents from power plants and impact on environment, Radiation from nuclear power plant effluents, Methods of pollution mitigation and control. Books and References:
- Power Plant Engineering, by F.T. Morse, Affiliated East-West Press Pvt. Ltd.
- Power Plant Engineering by Hedge, Pearson India.
- Power Plant Technology, by Wakil, McGraw Hill.
- Power Plant Engineering by P.K. Nag, Tata McGraw Hill.
- Steam & Gas Turbines & Power Plant Engineering by R.Yadav, Central Pub.House.
- Power Plant Engineering by Gupta, PHI India.
- El Wakil M.M., Power Plant Technology, Tata McGraw Hill, 2010.
- Power Plant Engineering. Mahesh Verma, Metropolitan Book Company Pvt. Ltd.
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