CIC342 Thermal Power Plant Instrumentation Syllabus:
CIC342 Thermal Power Plant Instrumentation Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. Gain knowledge on different types of power plants.
2. Study about the important process variables and their measurements.
3. To understand the important control loops involved in thermal power plants.
4. To analyze the various parameters related to steam turbines.
UNIT I OVERVIEW OF POWER GENERATION
Survey of methods of power generation – hydro, thermal, nuclear, solar and wind power – Importance of instrumentation in power generation – Thermal power plant – Building blocks – Combined Cycle System – Combined Heat and Power System – sub critical and supercritical boilers.
UNIT II MEASUREMENTS IN POWER PLANTS
Measurement of feed water flow, air flow, steam flow and coal flow – Drum level measurement– Steam pressure and temperature measurement – Turbine speed and vibration measurement – Flue gas analyzer – Fuel composition analyzer.
UNIT III BOILER CONTROL – I
Combustion of fuel and excess air – Firing rate demand – Steam temperature control – Control of deaerator – Drum level control: Single, two and three element control – Furnace draft control – implosion and explosion – flue gas dew point control – Trimming of combustion air – Soot blowing.
UNIT IV BOILER CONTROL – II
Burners for liquid and solid fuels – Burner management – Furnace safety interlocks – Coal pulverizer control – Combustion control for liquid and solid fuel fired boilers – air/fuel ratio control– fluidized bed boiler – Cyclone furnace.
UNIT V TURBINE MONITORING AND CONTROL
Types of steam turbines – impulse and reaction turbines – compounding – Turbine governing system– Speed and Load control – Transient speed rise – Free governor mode operation – Automatic Load Frequency Control – Turbine oil system – Oil pressure drop relay – Oil cooling system– Turbine run up system
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
SKILL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES (Group Seminar/Mini Project/Assignment/Content Preparation / Quiz/ Surprise Test / Solving GATE questions/ etc)
1. A seminar on Role of control and instrumentation in thermal power plant.
2. Familiarization of any one relevant software tool (MATLAB/ SCILAB/ LABVIEW/ Proteus/Equivalent open source software)
3. Design and verification of any simple power plant circuit through simulation.
4. Introduction to other power plants in the world not covered in the above syllabus
5. Quiz on power plants, boiler control and turbine monitoring.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO1 Understand and analyze the process diagram of hydel, thermal, nuclear, wind andsolar power plants.
CO2 Identify the instruments for monitoring various parameters related to thermalpower plant.
CO3 Analyze and select appropriate control strategy for various systems involvedin thermal power plant.
CO4 Recognize the important terms related to turbine monitoring system and able toanalyze the problems related to turbine governing.
CO5 Ability to understand the concepts of safety interlocks applied for combustion process.
TEXT BOOKS:
1 Sam Dukelow, “Control of Boilers”, Instrument Society of America, 1991.
2. Gill, A.B., “Power Plant performance”,Elsevier 2016.
REFERENCES:
1. Krishnaswamy, K. and Ponnibala, M., “Power Plant Instrumentation”, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, Fourth Printing (Second Edition) August, 2013.
2. Liptak B.G., “Instrumentation in Process Industries”, Chilton Book Company, 2005. Digitized in 2008
3. Jain R.K., “Mechanical and Industrial Measurements”, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 3rd edition 2017.