Power Generation and Economics detail syllabus for Electrical Engineering (Eee), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17EE42), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other eee 4th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit EEE 4th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for power generation and economics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
- Explain the arrangement and operation of hydroelectric, steam, diesel, gas turbine and nuclear power plants and working of major equipment in the plants.
- Classification of substation and explain the operation of different substation equipment.
- Explain the importance of grounding and different grounding methods used in practice.
- Explain the economics of power generation and importance of power factor
Module 1
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Module 2
Steam Power Plants: Introduction,Efficiency of steam plants, Merits and demerits of plants, selection of site. Working of steam plant, Power plant equipment and layout, Steam turbines, Fuels and fuel handling, Fuel combustion and combustion equipment, Coal burners, Fluidized bed combustion, Combustion control, Ash handling, Dust collection, Draught systems, Feed water, Steam power plant controls, plant auxiliaries. Diesel Power Plant: Introduction, Merits and demerits, selection site, elements of diesel power plant, applications. Gas Turbine Power Plant: Introduction, Merits and demerits, selection site, Fuels for gas turbines, Elements of simple gas turbine power plant, Methods of improving thermal efficiency of a simple steam power plant, Closed cycle gas turbine power plants. Comparison of gas power plant with steam and diesel power plants
Module 3
Nuclear Power Plants: Introduction, Economics of nuclear plants, Merits and demerits, selection of site, Nuclear reaction, Nuclear fission process, Nuclear chain reaction, Nuclear energy, Nuclear fuels, Nuclear plant and layout, Nuclear reactor and its control, Classification of reactors, power reactors in use, Effects of nuclear plants, Disposal of nuclear waste and effluent, shielding.!
Module 4
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Module 5
Economics: Introduction, Effect of variable load on power system, classification of costs, Cost analysis. Interest and Depreciation, Methods of determination of depreciation, Economics of Power generation, different terms considered for power plants and their significance, load sharing. Choice of size and number of generating plants. Tariffs, objective, factors affecting the tariff, types. Types of consumers and their tariff. Power factor, disadvantages, causes, methods of improving power factor, Advantages of improved power factor, economics of power factor improvement and comparison of methods of improving the power factor. Choice of equipment.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Describe the working of hydroelectric, steam, nuclear power plants and state functions of major equipment of the power plants.
- Classify various substations and explain the importance ofgrounding.
- Understand the economic aspects of power system operation and its effects.
- Explain the importance of power factor improvement
Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):
- Engineering Knowledge,
- Problem analysis,
- Engineers and Society,
- Environment and Sustainability
Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- Each full question is for 16 marks.
- There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full question) from each module.
- Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
- Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from eachmodule
Text Books:
- Power Plant Engineering P.K. Nag McGrawHill 4th Edition, 2014
- Generation of Electrical Energy B.R.Gupta S. Chand 2015
- Electrical power Generation, Transmission and Distribution S.N. Singh PHI 2nd Edition, 2009
Reference Books:
- A Course in Power Systems J.B. Gupta Katson 2008
- Electrical Power Distribution Systems V. Kamaraju McGrawHill 1st Edition, 2009
- A Text Book on Power System Engineering A.Chakrabarti, et al DhanpathRai 2nd Edition, 20
- Electrical Distribution Engineering Anthony J. Pansini CRC Press 3rd Edition, 2006
- Electrical Distribution Systems Dale R PatrickEt al CRC Press 2nd Edition, 2009
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Eee, 2017 scheme do visit Eee 4th Sem syllabus for 2017 scheme.
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