Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology | Regulation 2011

11M704 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING

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OBJECTIVES

To expose the fundamental power generation principles

To use this principle for the engineering applications of power generation
To integrate the basic concepts into various thermal applications like gas turbines, boilers, steam turbines,
diesel engines, nuclear, hydel power plant and other power plant applications

PROGRAM OUTCOME
(b) The graduates will be able to acquire the knowledge, capability of analyzing and solving any concept or
problem associated with heat energy dynamics and utilization. Students will be able to understand the working
concepts of thermal engineering.
SKILL SET
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Design of boilers and various equipments in steam power plant.

To occur knowledge in Diesel and gas turbine components selection.

ASSESSMENT PATTERN
S. No
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5

Blooms Taxonomy
(New version)
Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyze/Evaluate
Create
Total

Test I*

Test II*

35
35
30
100

35
35
30
100

Model
Examinations*
35
35
30
100

Semester End
Examination
35
35
30
100

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List out the factors to be considered in the selection of power plant.

What is meant by super critical boilers?
Mention the advantages of modern high pressure boilers.
State the advantages of regenerative feed heating in steam power cycle.
What is meant by run- off river plant?
What is the function of surge tank and draft tube in hydroelectric power plant?
Mention the application for diesel engine power plant.
What are the factors to be considered for the selection of diesel engine?
Name some of the mills used for pulverizing the fuel.
Mention the different types of burners used to burn pulverized fuel.
State the pollution caused by the power plant.
Name the different types of cooling towers available
State the advantages of pulverized fuel firing system
Mention the different firing system available
Name the various methods of ash handling.
Name the various draught systems
What is the cause of smoke?
Name the different types of chimney used.

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The marks secured Test I and Test II will be converted 20 and Model Examination will be converted to 20. The remaining 10 marks will be
calculated based on assignments. Accordingly internal assessment will be calculated for 50 marks.

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Define the term demand factor and diversity factor.

What is meant by power plant economics? What are the fixed and operating costs?
Define - nuclear chain reaction.
Name some of the fissionable and fertile materials.
State the functions of control rod, moderator, coolant and reflector.
Mention the application of MHD power plant.
Mention some of the shielding material for reactors.
What is meant by nuclear binding energy?

Understand
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Compare the diesel engine power plant with steam power plant.
Compare base load plant and peak load plant.
Compare the gas turbine power plant with steam power plant.
Compare the performance of the combined cycle operation with the other cycles.
Compare the forced draught fan and induced draught fan.
Differentiate hand firing and mechanized firing of fuel.
Compare the performance of bag house collector and cyclone separator.
Name the methods used for calculating the depreciation of the power plant.
Compare the Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion process.
Explain load factor, load curve, load duration curve.
Describe plant capacity factor, utilization factor.
What do mean by connected load and maximum demand?
How the reactors are classified?
Compare the advantages of pressurized water reactor with boiling water reactor.
Classify the different types of MHD.

Apply
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A base load plant power station and standby power station share a common load as follows:
Base load station annual output = 200 x 103 MWh
Base load station capacity = 48MW
Maximum demand on basew load station =45 MW
Standby station capacity = 25MW
Standby station annual output = 200 x 103MWh
Maximum demand on standby station = 15MW
Determine the following for the both power stations: a) Load factor, b) Capacity factor.

2.

The peak load on a thermal power plant is 75MW. The loads having maximum demands of 35MW, 20MW,
15MW and 18MW are connected to the power plant. The capacity of the power plant is 90MW and the annual
load factor is 0.53. Calculate
a) The average load on the power plant
b) The energy supplied per year
c) The demand factor
d) The diversity factor.

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It is required to supply a load with a maximum demand of 500MW and load factor of 0.74. Choice is to be
made from a steam power plant, a nuclear power plant and hydro electric power plant. Calculate the overall cost
per kWh in case of each scheme given below
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S.No

Cost

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Capital cost / MW installed

Interest
Depreciation
Operating cost / kWh
Transmission & Distribution
cost / kWh

Steam power
plant

Nuclear power
plant

Hydro electric
power plant

Rs 3.8 crore
5%
6%
50paise

Rs 5.2crore
6%
4%
30paise

6 crore
5%
5%
15paise

2paise

2.5paise

4paise

Unit I
Introduction to Power Plants and Boilers
Layout of Steam, Components, Selection - Steam Boilers and Cycles High Pressure and Super Critical Boilers
Fluidized Bed Boilers. Combined Power Cycles - Load Duration Curves Comparison and Selection.
Efficiency calculation methods for Boilers
9 Hours
Unit II
Steam Power Plant
Fuel and Ash Handling, Combustion Equipment for burning coal, Mechanical Stokers, Pulveriser, Electrostatic
Precipitator, Mechanical Collectors, Draught different types, Surface Condenser Types, Cooling Towers, Pollution
controls
Pollution control Methods
9 Hours
Unit III
Nuclear and Hydel Power Plants
Nuclear Energy Fission, Fusion Reaction, Layout - Types of Reactors, pressurized water reactor, Boiling Water
Reactor, Waste Disposal and safety. Hydel Power Plant Layout - Essential Elements, pumped storage - Selection
of Turbines, Governing of Turbines
Micro Hydel developments.
9 Hours
Unit IV
Diesel and Gas Turbine Power Plants
Layout and types of Diesel Plant, Components, Selection of Engine Type, applications. Gas Turbine Power Plant
Layout - Fuels - Gas Turbine Material Open and Closed Cycles Reheating Regeneration and Intercooling
Combined Cycle.
9 Hours
Unit V
Other Power Plants and Economics of Power Plants
Geo thermal OTEC Tidal - Solar thermal Wind energy - Wind turbines- MHD Plants. Cost of Electric Energy
Fixed and operating Costs Economics of load sharing,
comparison of economics of various power plants.
9 Hours
Total: 45 Hours
Textbook
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S. C. Arora and S. Domkundwar, A course in Power Plant Engineering, Dhanpatrai & Sons, New Delhi, 2008.

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References
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M. M. EI-Wakil, Power Plant Technology, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Pvt Ltd., New Delhi,1985.
P. K. Nag, Power plant Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill Company Pvt Ltd., New Delhi,2007.
G. R. Nagpal, Power Plant Engineering, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi,2002.
G. D. Rai, Introduction to Power Plant Technology, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi,1995.
R. K. Rajput, Power Plant Engineering, Laxmi Publications, New Delhi,1995.

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