Power Plant Engineering
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Power Plant Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Power Plant Engineering (subject code 3171910) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 44 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 (3171910)Unit 1 Coal Based Thermal Power Plant
- Layout of modern coal power plant
- site selection criteria
- Rankine cycle and its improvisations
- High Pressure Boilers
- FBC Boilers
- Steam Nozzles
- Steam Turbines
- Steam Condensers
- Cooling Towers
- Steam & Heat rate
- Combined Cycle Power Plant : Binary Cycles and Cogeneration systems
- Subsystems of thermal power plants – Draught system
- Fuel and ash handling
- Feed water treatment
Unit 2 Gas Turbine Power Plant
- Open and closed cycle
- Gas turbine fuels
- Actual Brayton cycle
- Optimum pressure ratio for maximum thermal efficiency
- Work ratio
- Air rate
- Effect of operating variables on the thermal efficiency and work
- Cooling of gas turbine blade
- Combined steam and gas turbine plant
Unit 3 Nuclear Power Plant
- Basics of Nuclear Engineering
- Layout and subsystems of Nuclear Power Plants
- Working of Nuclear Reactors : Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)
- Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)
- CANada Deuterium- Uranium reactor (CANDU)
- Gas Cooled and Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors
- Brief about the Nuclear program in India
- Safety measures for Nuclear Power plants
Unit 4 Power from Renewable Energy
- Hydro Electric Power Plants – Classification
- Typical Layout and associated components including Turbines
- Construction and working of Wind
- Solar Photovoltaic (SPV)
- Solar Thermal
- GeoThermal and Fuel Cell power systems
Unit 5 Energy, Economic and Environmental issues of Power plants
- Power tariff types
- Load distribution parameters
- load curve
- Comparison of site selection criteria
- relative merits & demerits
- Capital & Operating Cost of different power plants
- Pollution control technologies including Waste Disposal Options for Coal and Nuclear Power Plants
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