CME392 Power Generation Equipment Design Syllabus:
CME392 Power Generation Equipment Design Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1 To introduce the power generation equipments types layouts working cycles.
2 To learn the fuels, combustion and burning methods of combustion system.
3 To study the various boilers and its boilers parts of steam power plant.
4 To study the basics of nuclear fuels and reactor classification.
5 To study of techno economics and operating cost and safety of power plant.
UNIT – I INTRODUCTION
Introduction to types, layouts and working cycles – Layouts of diesel-electric, hydro-electric, nuclear, gas turbine, steam, cogeneration, MHD and other power plants – Site selection – Reheat and regenerative steam cycles – Binary vapour cycle – Combined cycle – Topping cycle – Power plant instrumentation and control – air flow, furnace pressure, steam temperature control system – Governing system – Steam turbine.
UNIT – II COMBUSTION SYSTEM
Fuels, combustion and burning methods – Fuel classification – Solid, liquid and gaseous – Compositions and heating values – Classification of coal – Combustion process, atmosphere and control – ESP Furnace construction – Stokers – suspension firing – pulverised fuel firing – oil and gas burners and systems – Fuel control – Burner management system – FSSS – Ash handling system.
UNIT – III STEAM POWER PLANT
Steam generators – fire tube, water tube, forced circulation, once through, super charged, super critical, Lamont, Loeffler, Schmide, Hortmen and Velox boilers, Fluidised Bed & Circulated Fluidised Bed boilers – Natural, artificial, balanced and steam jet drafts – Simple problems – Functions of super heaters, economisers, air-heaters, deaerators, feed heaters, air ejectors – Feed pumps – Injectors – Feed water control- Condensers – Jet and surface type – Simple problems – Cooling towers.
UNIT – IV NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Nuclear power plant – Basics of nuclear fuels – Fission and chain reaction – Reactor classification – Boiling water, pressurised water, homogeneous, gas cooled breeding and metal cooled
UNIT – V TECHNO ECONOMICS OF POWER PLANT
Economics and safety – Actual load curves – Fixed and operating costs – Tariff methods for electrical energy – Peak load and variable load operations – Selection of generation type and general equipment. Introduction to safety aspects in power plants – Environmental impacts – assessment for thermal power plant.
TOTAL:45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course the students would be able to
1. Discuss the power generation equipments types layouts working cycles.
2. Explain the fuels, combustion and burning methods of combustion system.
3. Discuss the various boilers and its boilers parts of steam power plant.
4. Explain the basics of nuclear fuels and reactor classification.
5. Discuss of techno economics and operating cost and safety of power plant.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Power Plant Engineering – PK Nag
2. A Textbook of Power Plant Engineering – Rajput
REFERENCES:
1. Basics of Boiler and HRSG Design – Brad Buecker
2. Steam Plant Operation-Everett B. Woodruff,Herbert B. Lammers,Thomas F. Lammers
3. Nuclear Power Plant Design and Analysis Codes Development Validation and Application 2020 Edition by Jun Wang, Xin Li, Chris Allison, Judy Hohorst , Elsevier
4. A Techno-Economic Analysis of Solar Thermal Power Plant by Malik Monu and Saini R P | 8 November 2012
5. Power Plant Engineering by Dilip Vairagkar | 1 January 2019