1020236117 POWER PLANT EINGINEERING
THEORY (ELECTIVE-3)
DETAILED SYLLABUS
Unit -I INTRODUCTION AND ECONOMICS OF POWER PLANT
Power plant – Introduction, Classification – Location of power plant – Choice
of Power plant – Terminology used in power plant: Peak load, Base load, Load
factor, Load curve, demand factor – Various factor affecting the operation
of power plant – Load sharing – Cost of power and tariff methods-Factors
involved in fixing of a tariff.

Unit – II THERMAL POWER PLANT
Thermal power plant – General layout – Working – Site selection – Materials
required for thermal power plant-High pressure boilers and classification-
Coal handling and its methods, stages in coal storage – Fuel burning – Stoker
firing -overfeed stoker – underfeed stokers-chain grate stoker – Pulverized
fuel handling system – Pulverization of coal – Ash handling system –
Gravity system – Electrostatic Precipitation (ESP) system – Advantages and
disadvantages – Limitations of thermal power plant.

Unit – III POWER FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY
Hydroelectric power plant: Introduction, storage and poundage, Selection of
sites for hydroelectric power plant – General layout and essential elements
of Hydroelectric power plant and its working – Advantages and limitations
of hydroelectric power plant.
Solar power plant: Introduction – layout, solar cell fundamentals &
classification – maximum power point tracker (MPPT) and solar panel.
Wind power plant: Introduction-Factors affecting distribution of Wind
energy, Variation of wind speed with height and time – Horizontal axis
wind turbine (HAWT)-types of rotors-Vertical axis wind turbine – types of
rotors-advantages and limitations of wind power plant.

Unit – IV NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Nuclear power plant – introduction – nuclear fuels, nuclear fission and fusion,
working of a nuclear power plant-types of reactors – pressurized water reactorboiling
water reactor – CANDU type reactor – fast breeder reactor – effect of
nuclear radiation – different methods for nuclear waste disposal – low, medium
and high level waste disposal – Advantages-disadvantages-limitations-Safety
measures for Nuclear Power plants.

Unit – V DIESEL POWER PLANT AND GAS TURBINE POWER PLANT
Diesel power plant: Layout – Components and the working – Advantages –
disadvantages – limitations.
Gas turbine power plant: Schematic diagram & working of open and closed
cycle gas turbine power plant – Components of Gas turbine – compressor,
combustion chamber, gas turbine, vortex blading-Gas turbine fuels-Gas
turbine power plants in India – Advantages disadvantages – limitations of
Gas turbine power plant.