POWER PLANT INSTRUMENTATION 1.

OVERVIEW OF POWER GENERATION Brief survey of methods of power generation-hydro, thermal, nuclear, solar and wind power importance of instrumentation in power generation thermal power plants building blocks details of boiler processes P & I diagram of boiler cogeneration 2. MEASUREMENTS IN POWER PLANTS !lectrical measurements current, voltage, power, fre"uency, power-factor etc , non-electrical parameters flow of feed water, fuel, air and steam with correction factor for temperature steam pressure and steam temperature-drum level measurement radiation detector smoke density measurement dust monitor 3. ANALYZERS IN POWER PLANTS #lue gas o$ygen analyser analysis of impurities in feed water and steam dissolved o$ygen analyser chromatography P% meter-fuel analyser pollution monitoring instruments 4. CONTROL LOOPS IN BOILER &ombustion control air'fuel ratio control furnace draft control drum level control main steam and reheat steam temperature control super heater control attemperator deaerator control distributed control system in power plantsinterlocks in boiler operation 5. TURBINE-MONITORING AND CONTROL (peed, )ibration, shell temperature monitoring and control-steam pressure control lubricant oil temperature control cooling system

TEXT BOOKS * 0 (am + ,ukelow, -he control of Boilers, instrument (ociety of .merica, *//* 1odern Power (tation Practice, )ol 2, Instrumentation, &ontrols and -esting, Pergamon Press, 3$ford, */4*

REFERENCES * 0 !lonka, ( 1 and 5ohal . 6 (tandard Boiler 3perations, 1c+raw %ill, 7ew ,elhi, *//8 9 5 :ain, 1echanical and industrial 1easurements, 5hanna Publishers, 7ew ,elhi, *//;