Electrical Power Generation
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Electrical Power Generation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Electrical Power Generation (subject code 2140908) as prescribed for EEE · Semester 4 divides the course into 12 units, covering 71 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2140908)Unit 1 Introduction
- Amount of generation of electric power from Conventional and non conventional sources of energy in Gujarat and India and some developed countries of the world
Unit 2 Steam power station
- Schematic arrangement
- advantages and disadvantages
- choice of site
- efficiency of steam power station
- Types of prime movers
- speed control & auxiliaries
- Environmental aspects for selecting the sites and locations of thermal power stations
Unit 3 Hydro power station
- Schematic arrangement
- advantages and disadvantages
- choice of site constituents of hydro power plant
- Hydro turbine
- Environmental aspects for selecting the sites and locations of hydro power stations
Unit 4 Nuclear power station
- Schematic arrangement
- advantages and disadvantages
- selection of site
- types of reactors
- Environmental aspects for selecting the sites and locations of nuclear power stations
Unit 5 Diesel power station
- Schematic arrangement
- advantages and disadvantages
- Choice and characteristic of diesel engines
Unit 6 Gas turbine power plant
- 03 Schematic arrangement
- advantages and disadvantages of Gas turbine power plant
- Open cycle and Closed cycle gas turbine power plant
- Combined cycle power plant
- Comparison of various power plants
Unit 7 Tariff and Economic aspects in power Generation
- Terms commonly used in system operation
- various factors affecting cost of generation: Load curves
- load duration curves
- Connected load
- maximum load
- Peak load
- base load and peak load power plants
- load factor
- Plant capacity factor
- Plant use factor
- Demand factor
- diversity factor
- Cost of power plant
Unit 8 Power Generation by Non Conventional Energy Sources
- Introduction:Need of Renewable energy Fossil fuel based systems Impact of fossil fuel based systems Non-conventional energy – seasonal variations and availability Renewable energy – sources and features Distributed energy systems and dispersed generation (DG)
Unit 9 Photovoltaic Power Conversion systems
- Solar radiation spectrum. Radiation measurement. Applications of solar thermal systems 1
- Power generation Solar Photovoltaic(SPV) systems 1
- Operating principle 2
- Photovoltaic cell concepts 3
- Types of solar cells
- fabrication of SPV cells 4
- array (Series and parallel connections) 5
- SPV system components and their characteristics
- Block diagram of general SPV system 7
- Battery sizing and Array sizing Applications of Solar Photovoltaic systems 1
- Battery charging 2
- Lighting Green Building (Solar – thermal
- Solar – PV) 1
- Sizing residential systems 2
- Batteries and Inverters Present Status of PV in India Governmental incentives
Unit 10 Wind Power Conversion System
- 09 Introduction to wind energy basic principles of wind energy conversion forces on the blade power in the wind – maximum power wind energy conversion – wind data and (qualitative treatment only) energy estimation Basic components of wind energy conversion systems classifications of WECS-HAWT
- Geared wind power plants (WPPs)
- direct-drive WPPs and Hybrid (semi- geared) WPPs Schemes of electric generation Squirrel Cage Induction Generators (SCIG)
- wound rotor (WRIG)
- doubly-fed (DFIG)
- wound rotor synchronous generator (WRSG)
- Permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) Comparison/ advantages and disadvantages of WECS. Site selection considerations
Unit 11 Substation
- Classification of Substations
- substation equipments
- Specification and selection of equipments
- Site selection of substation
Unit 12 Neutral Earthing
- isolated neutral
- earth neutral systems-solid
- Arc suppression coil
- voltage transformer and earthing
- earthing systems