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Power Plant Engineering: ME 413TLP

Answer the following Questions
Draw and explain layout of the CANDU reactor. List its merits and demerits. Also give the
examples of power plants working on it

List the advantages of gas turbine power plant combined with steam power plant. Explain with
neat sketch combined gas and steam power plant
What is breeder reactor? Explain FERMI breeder reactor
Compare PWR and BWR
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Discuss the methods used to reduce the limitations of BWR

What is FBCB? List its advantages

Describe Indian Nuclear Power generation strategy
Compare Steam, Hydro, and Diesel and Gas turbine power plants
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Prove that the ideal regeneration Rankine cycle efficiency is equal to Carnot efficiency.
Explain the practical method of regeneration.

A steam power plant equipped with regenerative as well as reheat arrangement is supplied with
steam to H.P turbine at 80 bar and 470 ºC. For feed heating a part of steam is extracted at 7 bar
and remainder of steam is reheated to 350 ºC in reheater and then expanded in L.P. turbine
drown to 0.035 bar. Determine a) amount of steam bled off for feed heating b) Amount of
steam in L.P. turbine c) Heat supplied in boiler and reheater d) output of the turbine e) cycle
efficiency
With suitable sketch explain the various methods of regeneration.
Draw the Rankine cycle with reheating on TS and HS diagram
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Steam is supplied to a turbine at a high pressure of 52 bar and 420 º C. It is expanded in High
pressure turbine to 5.5 bar, the internal efficiency ratio of the H.P turbine being 0.8. The steam
is then reheated at constant pressure up to 250 º C. It is then expanded to 0.035 bar with the
same internal efficiency ratio. Calculate the mass of steam generated by the boiler per kWh
output and the heat consumption of the turbine per kWh if the mechanical efficiency of turbine
is 99% and the alternator efficiency is 96%.

Discuss the construction and working of Loefller boiler. List its advantages
List the advantages of high pressure boilers
What are the features of modified Rankine cycle?
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Comment on Nuclear waste disposal methods
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Sketch and Explain Supercritical boiler
Draw Velox boiler