Electrical Power Generation
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The official GTU curriculum for Electrical Power Generation (subject code DI03009021) as prescribed for EC · Semester 3 divides the course into 5 units, covering 39 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 (DI03009021)Unit 1 Thermal Power Plant Contents
- (1) Energy conversion process in thermal power station (2) Schematic diagram of thermal power station (3) Main flow circuits: Fuel and Ash circuit
- Air and Gas circuit
- Feed water and Steam circuit
- Cooling water circuit (4) Efficiency of thermal power station: Thermal efficiency and overall efficiency (5) Advantages and disadvantages of thermal power station (6) List of thermal power stations in Gujarat with their capacity
Unit 2 Hydro-electric and Nuclear Power Plant Hydro-electric power plant
- Contents: (1) Energy conversion process in hydro-electric power station (2) Classification of hydro-electric power station (3) Constituents of hydro-electric power station: Hydraulic structure
- Water Turbines
- Electrical equipment (4) Different schemes of hydro-electric power station: High head
- medium head
- low head (5) List of major hydro-electric power station in Gujarat with their capacity Nuclear Power Plant Contents: (1) Energy conversion process for Nuclear power station (NPS) (2) Nuclear fusion and fission
- Chain reaction Program Name: Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Electrical Engineering Subject Code: DI03009021 Subject Name: Electrical Power Generation w.e.f. 2025-26 http://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ P a g e | 3 (3) Main elements of nuclear reactor (4) Types of nuclear reactor (5) Schematic diagram of nuclear power station (6) Nuclear waste and its disposals (7) Advantages and disadvantages nuclear power station (8) List of nuclear power station in Gujarat and India with their capacity
Unit 3 Power Generation through Solar and Wind
- Solar Energy Contents: (1) Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plant: components layout
- (2) Rooftop solar PV power system: Grid connected and Standalone Wind Energy: Contents: (1) Energy conversion in wind power plant (2) Advantages and limitations of wind power plant (3) Principles of rotation of wind turbine rotor (4) Important terms regarding wind power generation: Wind turbine efficiency
- swept area
- cut in wind speed
- rated wind speed
- cut out wind speed (5) Wind turbine types (HAWT and VAWT) and their construction (6) Layout of Horizontal axis large wind power plant: Geared wind power plant
- Direct-drive wind power plant (7) Schemes of electric generation: Constant speed constant frequency
- Variable speed constant frequency
- variable speed variable frequency (8) List of major wind farms in Gujarat with their capacity
Unit 4 Captive Power Plants
- (1) Electrical energy conversion of DG sets
- advantages and limitations (2) Layout of a Bio-chemical based (e.g. biogas) power plant
- Layout of a Thermo-chemical based (e.g
- Municipal waste) power plant
- Layout of an Agro-chemical based (e.g. bio-diesel) power plant
- Features of the solid
- liquid and gas biomasses as fuel for biomass Program Name: Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Electrical Engineering Subject Code: DI03009021 Subject Name: Electrical Power Generation w.e.f. 2025-26 http://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ P a g e | 4 power plant
- (3) Fuel Cell: Principle of electricity generation
Unit 5 Variable Load on Power Station Contents
- (1) Variable load on power station: effect of variable load (2) Types of Loads (3) Load curve and Load duration curve (4) Important terms and factor: Average demand
- Maximum demand
- Load factor
- connected load
- demand factor
- diversity factor
- coincidence factor
- loss factor
- plant capacity factor
- plant use factor
- utilization factor etc
- (5) Base load and peak load power plants (6) Numerical based on above topics
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