Subject Code:  ME3L008 Name: Power Plant Engineering L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit:  3
Pre-Requisite: None
Introduction to Power Plant, Analysis of steam cycles, optimization of reheat pressure and degree of regeneration, coupled cycles and combined plants, process heat and power. Boilers: Different types of boilers, boiler mountings & accessories, feed water treatment, boiler energy balance & draft system. Nozzles; convergent and convergent-divergent nozzles - theory and design. Steam Turbines: Impulse and reaction turbines, compounding of turbines, optimum velocity ratio, reheat factor and condition line, parallel exhaust, losses in steam turbines, steam turbine governing. Theory and design of condensers, air ejector and cooling tower. Fluid Power & Machinery: Similarity, Euler equation for Turbo-machines, Centrifugal pump, Hydraulic turbines, Cavitation.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. El-Wakil M.M., Power Plant Technology, McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math.
  2. Nag P.K., Power Plant Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited.
  3. Veatch B., Drbal L.F., Boston P.G., Westra K.L., Erickson R.B., Power Plant Engineering, CBS Publishers.
  4. Rajput R.K., A Textbook of Power Plant Engineering, Laxmi Publication.
  5. Som S.K., and Biswas G., Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited.