SYLLABUS

1. MEE2022 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING L T P J C
3 0 0 0 3
Pre-requisite MEE1003 / MEE1033/ CHE1003
Course Objectives:
 To discuss about the working of various power generation units and steam cycles.
 To introduce the concepts about steam generators, combustion and firing methods in order
to make the fullest use of thermal power potentialities of the country.
 To discuss in detail about nuclear, gas turbine, hydro and diesel power plants which play an
important role in power generation.
Expected course outcome:
The student will be able to:
 Understand basic power generation types and steam cycles.
 Know about the kind of boilers being used in various industries and their applicability.
 Solve problems related to gas turbine and Rankine cycles.
 Distinguish between various power generation units and choose one that meets desired
economic, environmental and social requirements.
 Gain knowledge about contemporary issues like nuclear waste disposal, supercharging
of diesel engines.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLO): 1, 2, 5
Module: 1 Steam Power Plant 9 hours SLO: 1, 2
Site selection, Components and Layout of steam power plant, vapor power cycles. Steam
Generators – Classification and Types of Boilers - Fire tube and Water tube boilers - High pressure
and Supercritical boilers - Positive circulation boilers - Fluidized bed boiler - Waste heat recovery
boiler, Heat Exchangers - Feed water heaters - Super heaters - Reheaters -Economiser - Condenser-
Cooling tower.
Module: 2 Combustion and Firing Methods 6 hours SLO: 1, 2
Coal handling and preparation -Combustion equipment and firing methods - Mechanical stokers -
Pulverized coal firing systems - Cyclone furnace - Ash handling systems - Electrostatic precipator -
Fabric filter and Bag house -Forced draft and Induced draft fans.
Module: 3 Nuclear Power Plants 7 hours SLO: 1, 5
Site selection, Components and Layout Principles of nuclear energy - Energy from nuclear
reactions - Energy from fission and fuel Burnup - Decay rates and Half - Lives.
Boiling water reactor - Pressurized water reactor Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor - Gas cooled
reactor - High temperature gas cooled reactor - Fast breeder reactor - Liquid metal fast breeder
reactor-reactor materials - Radiation shielding.
Module: 4 Gas Turbine Power Plants 6 hours SLO: 1, 5
Site selection, Components and Layout, Open and closed cycles - Intercooling - Reheating and
Regenerating - Combined cycle power plant types.
Module: 5 Hydro Electric Power Plants 5 hours SLO: 1, 2
Site selection, Components and Layout, Classification of Hydro - electric power plants and their
Version 1.2

2. applications - Selection of prime movers - Governing of turbine.
Module: 6 Diesel Engine Power Plant 5 hours SLO: 1, 2
Site selection, Components and Layout, Subsystems - Starting and stopping - Heat balance -
Lubricating and Cooling startegies - Constraints in operating range.
Module: 7 Economics of Power Plants 5 hours SLO: 1, 5
Cost of electric Energy - Fixed and operating costs - Energy rates - Types tariffs
Economics of load sharing - Load Curves.
Module: 8 Contemporary issues 2 hours
Total lecture hours 45 hours
Text Book(s)
1. P. K. Nag, Power Plant Engineering: Steam and Nuclear, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing
Company Ltd., Fourth Edition. New Delhi, 2014.
Reference Books
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2.
R.K.Hegde, Power Plant Engineering Pearson India Education services Pvt. Limited Noida,
India, 2015.
R. K. Rajput, A Text Book of Power Plant Engineering, Laxmi Publications (P) Ltd. New Delhi,
2015.
Recommended by Board of Studies 17-08-2017
Approved by Academic Council 47 Date 05-10-2017