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2171910
Code: 2171910
Credits: 6
Semester 7
Mechanical Engineering
Power Plant Engineering
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Power Plant Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Power Plant Engineering (subject code 2171910) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 12 units, covering 110 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 (2171910)Unit 1 Thermal Power Plant
- General layout of modern thermal power plant
- Site selection
- Presents status of power generation in India
Unit 2 High Pressure Boilers
- (Unique features and advantages of high pressure boilers
- Loeffler and Schmidt-Hartmann boilers)*
- supercritical boilers
- Supercharged and fluidized bed combustion
- Methods of superheat control
- Corrosion in boilers and its prevention
Unit 3 Coal and Ash Handling Systems
- Coal storage
- Burning systems
- Types of stokers and their working
- Pulverized fuel handling systems
- Unit and central systems
- Pulverized mills- ball mill
- Bowl mill
- Ball & race mill
- Impact or hammer mill
- Pulverized coal burners
- Oil burners
- Necessity of ash disposal
- pneumatic and steam jet ash handling system
- Dust collection and its disposal
- Mechanical dust collector
- Electrostatic precipitator
Unit 4 Draught System
- Natural draught – estimation of height of chimney
- Maximum discharge condition
- induced and balanced draught
- Power requirement by fans
Unit 5 Steam Nozzles
- Types of nozzles
- velocity of steam
- discharge through nozzle
- critical pressure ratio and condition for maximum discharge
- physical significance of critical pressure ratio
- nozzle efficiency
Unit 6 Steam turbine
- (Principle of operation
- types of steam turbines
- compounding of steam turbines
- impulse turbine – velocity diagram)*
- calculation of work
- power and efficiency
- condition for maximum efficiency
- Reaction turbines – velocity diagram
- degree of reaction
- reheat factor
- (governing of steam turbine – throttle
- nozzle and bypass governing)*
- Methods of attachment of blades to turbine rotor
- Labyrinth packing
- Losses in steam turbine
Unit 7 Condensers and Cooling Towers
- Types of condensers
- sources of air in condenser
- Effects of air leakage
- Methods of obtaining maximum vacuum in condenser
- vacuum & condenser efficiency
- Mass of cooling water required
- Edward air pump
- Necessity of cooling ponds and cooling towers
- Condenser water cooling systems
- Types of cooling towers and cooling ponds
Unit 8 Feed Water Treatment
- Necessity of feed water treatment
- Different impurities found in feed water
- Effect of impurities
- pH & its role in corrosion and scale formation
- Internal & external water treatment systems – Hot lime soda process
- Zeolite ion exchange process
- Demineralization plants
- Reverse osmosis process
- Sea water treatment using reverse osmosis
Unit 9 Gas turbine
- 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 ratio and air rate
- combined steam and gas turbine plant
- gas turbine blade cooling
Unit 10 Nuclear Power Plant
- Nuclear fusion and fission
- Chain reaction
- Nuclear fuels
- Components of nuclear reactor
- Classification of reactors
- Pressurized water reactor
- Boiling water reactor
- Gas cooled reactor
- CANDU reactor
- Fast breeder reactor
- Nuclear waste and its disposal
- Nuclear power plants in India
Unit 11 Jet Propulsion
- Turbojet Engine*
- thrust power
- propulsive efficiency
- thermal efficiency
- Ramjet and Pulsejet engines
- Rocket engines)*
Unit 12 Economics of Power 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
- Performance and operating characteristics of power plant
- Tariff for electric energy * This topic should be covered during laboratory sessions
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