Power Plant Engineering
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Power Plant Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Power Plant Engineering (subject code 3172429) as prescribed for PE · Semester 7 divides the course into 7 units, covering 49 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 (3172429)Unit 1 Introduction
- Electrical Power Generation concepts
- sources of energy like fossil fuels (coal
- diesel etc.)
- atomic power
- wind energy
- Basics of energy conversion
Unit 2 Coal Based Thermal Power Plants
- Rankine cycle
- Layout of modern coal power plant
- Super Critical Boilers
- FBC Boilers
- Steam & Heat rate
- Subsystems of thermal power plants
- Fuel and ash handling
- Draught system
- Feed water treatment
- Binary Cycles and Cogeneration systems
Unit 3 Diesel, Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Power Plants
- Dual & Brayton Cycle
- Analysis & Optimization
- Components of Diesel and Gas Turbine power plants
- Combined Cycle Power Plants
- Integrated Gasifier based Combined Cycle systems
Unit 4 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
- Safety measures for Nuclear Power plants
Unit 5 Power from Renewable Energy
- Hydro Electric Power Plants Classification
- Typical Layout and associated components including Turbines
- Construction and working of Wind
- Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV)
- Solar Thermal
- Biogas and Fuel Cell power systems
Unit 6 Electrical Systems
- Generators and generator cooling
- transformers and their cooling
- bus bar, etc
- Power Plant Automation and instrumentation: Instrumentation in power plant
- selection and application
- recorders, and their use, listing of various control rooms
- Power plant automation using PLC, SCADA etc
Unit 7 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 4 Subject Code: 3172429 technologies including Waste Disposal Options for Coal and Nuclear Power Plants
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