Unit 1 Fundamentals of Energy Conversion

2 lecture hours

•  Introduction to Energy Forms
• Work and Power  Thermodynamics of Energy Conversion  Energy Sources
• Primary energy sources
• Conversion of primary into secondary energy sources such as Electricity
• Thermal or Steam

Unit 2 Fuel Combustion and Gasification

5 lecture hours

•  Fuel Composition and Heating Value  Combustion stoichiometry and calculation  Gaseous product combustion  Coal gasification  Gasification process and gasifiers

Unit 3 Thermal Energy

18 lecture hours

•  Steam and Gas power plant cycle
• Rankine and Bryton cycles
• Efficiency Enhancement through Reheat
• Regenerative and Intercooling
• Supercritical cycle  Steam Generators and Boilers -Types
• Performance evaluation of boilers
• Boiler Water Treatment and blow down
• Introduction to FBC Boilers
• Mechanism and Operational Features of FBC, Retrofitting FBC system to conventional boilers
•  Steam turbines: Classification
• impulse turbine
• reaction turbine
• compound turbine
• performance evolution
• energy losses in turbine and governing
• turbine auxiliary system
• Advances in thermal energy

Unit 4 Nuclear Energy

•  Energy Conversion through fission and fusion
• 7 15  Nuclear reactor: PWR, BWR, GCR, HTGR, HWR, LMFBR  Advances in nuclear energy

Unit 5 Co-generation, Tri-generation & Waste Energy Recovery

13 lecture hours

•  Co-generation & Tri-generation: Definition
• saving Potential
•  Waste Heat Recovery: Concept of conversion efficiency
• energy waste
• waste heat recovery classification
• advantages and applications
• commercially viable waste heat recovery devices