Unit I Introduction: Energy resources and their availability, types of power plants,
selection of the plants, review of basic thermodynamic cycles used in power plants.
Unit II Hydro Electric Power Plants : Rainfall and run-off measurements and plotting of
various curves for estimating stream flow and size of reservoir, power plants
design, construction and operation of different components of hydro-electric power
plants, site selection, comparison with other types of power plants.
Unit III Steam Power Plants: Flow sheet and working of modern-thermal power plants,
super critical pressure steam stations, site selection, coal storage, preparation, coal
handling systems, feeding and burning of pulverized fuel, ash handling systems,
dust collection-mechanical dust collector and electrostatic precipitator.
Unit IV Combined Cycles: Constant pressure gas turbine power plants, Arrangements of
combined plants ( steam & gas turbine power plants ), re-powering systems with
gas production from coal, using PFBC systems, with organic fluids, parameters
affecting thermodynamic efficiency of combined cycles. Problems.
Unit V Nuclear Power Plants: Principles of nuclear energy, basic nuclear reactions, nuclear
reactors-PWR, BWR, CANDU, Sodium graphite, fast breeder, homogeneous; gas cooled.
Advantages and limitations, nuclear power station, waste disposal.
Unit VI Power Plant Economics: load curve, different terms and definitions, cost of
electrical energy, tariffs methods of electrical energy, performance & operating
characteristics of power plants- incremental rate theory, input-out put curves,
efficiency, heat rate, economic load sharing, Problems.
Unit VII Non-Conventional Power Generation: Solar radiation estimation, solar energy
collectors, low, medium & high temperature power plants, OTEC, wind power
plants, tidal power plants, geothermal power plants.
Unit VIII Direct Energy Conversion Systems: Fuel cell, MHD power generation-principle,
open & closed cycles systems, thermoelectric power generation, thermionic power
generation