POWER PLANT ENGINEERING

PAPER CODE: ME-407-F

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS (Full syllabus)
Short Answer Type Question
1. What is rainfall?
2. What is waste of nuclear plants?
3. Name various hydro plants presently working in North India.
4. What is geothermal energy?
5. Discuss utilisation factor, diversity factor and demand factor.
6. What is economizer? How much boiler efficiency improves by economizer?
7. What is super heater? How much boiler efficiency improves by super heater?
8. Where conveyers are used in thermal power plant?
9. What are ash handling systems?
10. What is the function of speed governor in hydroelectric station?
11. What do mean by depreciation and write the name and various method of calculation?
12. What is function of photovoltaic cell?
13. What is fuel cell?
14. What do mean by Magneto hydrodynamics (M.H.D.)
15. What is electrostatic precipitator?
16. What is load curve?
17. What is OTEC?
18. What is Re-powering system
19. Discuss Breeder reactor
20. What is reserve capacity of the plant?
Long Answer Type Question
1. What is power plant engineering? What are different types of power plant? How
the plants are selected? Also explain basic thermodynamics cycles used in power
plant.
2. Discuss the various method of finding the cost of electric energy and various
tariffs method used by state govt. for electric energy.
3. What is hydrology? How does study of hydrology helps in selecting the site for a
hydro-electric plant?
4. (a) What are different component of Hydro-electric power plant?
(b) Discuss the various factors which govern the site selection of hydro plant.
(c) What is rainfall and run-off measurement?
5. (a) Explain in detail the feeding and burning of pulverized of fuel.
(b) What are mechanical dust collector and electrostatic precipitator?
6. Draw the P-V and T-S diagram for the most commonly used thermodynamic cycle
for a thermal station.
7. Give the layout of modern steam power plant. Discuss its salient features.
8. Draw a line diagram of in plant coal handling system and explain the equipment
used at different stages. [
9. How the exhaust gases from gas turbine power plant can be used in steam power
plant? Also discuss its advantages of these arrangements.
10. How does a modified Rankine cycle differ from a Rankine cycle? Write also the
expression of modified Rankine efficiency.
11. Write short notes on the following:
(i) Site selection for the steam power plant
(ii) PFBC System
12. (a) What is nuclear power plant? Explain the principle of nuclear power plant.
(b) What is power plant economics? Explain the economic load sharing.
(c) What do you mean by economics of nuclear power plant?
13. Draw a neat diagram of CANDU type reactor and explain its working principle
and gives its advantages over the other types.
14. Write short notes on the following:
(i) PWR
(ii) BWR
(iii) Advantage and limitations of nuclear power plant.
15. (a) What is non-conventional power generation? Explain the geothermal power
plant.
(b) What is direct energy conversion system? Explain in detail fuel cell?
16. Write short note on the following:
(i) Wind power plant
(ii) Tidal power plant
(iii) Thermoelectric power generation.
17. Discuss the various method of solar radiation estimation. Also explain the various
types of solar energy collectors.
18. Describe, with neat sketch the working and features of a solar power plant.
19. Discuss with neat diagram the working of a “Thermionic power generation
system”.
20. Describe with neat sketch, the working and feature of a Wind power plant.