V.K.R, V.N.B & A.G.

K COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(Sponsored by General & Technical Education Society, Gudivada)
Approved by AICTE, New Delhi & Affiliated to JNTUK-KAKINADA
Gudivada, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh – 521301
Phone: 08674-242188, Fax: 08674-242190
Email: vkrvnbengineering@gmail.com URL: http://www.vkrvnbcoe.org

Department:MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Name of the faculty: Dr V.VENKAESWARLU

Designation: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Name of the subject: POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
Semester / Year: IV/I Date: 04/06/2019 AY: 2019-2020
UNIT-IV
1. a) What are the different fuels used in nuclear power plants.
b) What are the major sources for the radiation hazards in nuclear power plants?
c) Explain the principle of operation of a sodium graphite reactor.
2. a) How the nuclear reactors are classified?
b) What are the advantages of CANDU reactor?
c) Explain the working of a typical fast breeder nuclear power plant with neat diagram.
3. a) What is chain reaction and name few nuclear fuels.
b) Differentiate between fission and fusion.
c) Describe with the help of a neat sketch the construction working of a pressurized water reactor.
What are the advantages and disadvantages?
4. a) What are the breeding materials used for the chemical reaction in the nuclear power plants?
b) What are the major sources for the radiation hazards in nuclear power plants?
c) What factors to be considered while selecting materials for the various reactor components?
5. a) State the advantages of fast breeder reactors?
b) Write the advantages and disadvantages of boiling water reactor (BWR) ?
c) Explain with a line diagram, the working of homogeneous reactor.
UNIT-V
1. a) Explain the importance of measurement in power plant
b) What is base load and peak load power plants?
c) With a neat sketch, explain the working of photo cell type smoke meter.
2. a) What are the requirements of base load power plant?
b) What are the commonly used instruments in power plants?
c) Explain method used to measure the purity of water also explain importance of measurement
system in power plants.
3. a) List out the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear plants over conventional thermal plants.
b) How measurement of moisture in CO2 is done?
c) Explain with schematic diagram how measurement of oxygen is done in power plants.
4. a) List advantages of combined working power plants.
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b) Explain the working of run-of-river plant in combination with steam plant.

c) Explain with a neat line diagram the circuit to analyze the gas for nuclear radiation.
5. a) Discuss the coordination of different types of power plants.
b) List out the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear plants over conventional thermal plants.
c) What are the discrete advantages of combined operation power plants?
UNIT-VI
1. a) What is the importance of load factor?
b) Explain how the NOx emissions can be reduced in the flue gases
c) A power station has a maximum demand of 15 MW, a load factor of 0.7, a plant capacity factor of
0.525 and a plant use factor of 0.85.Find (i) The daily energy produced (ii) The reserve capacity of
the plant, (iii) The maximum energy that could be produced daily if the plant operating schedule is
fully loaded when in operation.
2. a) Define peak load, demand factor, load factor and plant use factor.
b) Explain environmental pollution due to road transport.
c) Briefly discuss on cost analysis of any power plant.
3. a) What are the reasons of acid rains?
b) What are the different types of electrical loads?
c) Discuss briefly methods available to control pollution from power plants.
4. a) How the acid rains are controlled?
b) State the effects of effluents on the environment and human health.
c) The following data is given for a steam power plant: Maximum Demand 25,000 kW; Load factor
40%; Coal consumption 0.86 kg/kWh; Boiler efficiency 85%; Turbine efficiency 90%; Price of coal
Rs. 55 per Ton; Determine:
(i) Thermal efficiency of the station (ii) Coal bill of the station for one year.
5. a) How the load duration curve is constructed.
b) What do you know about pollution standards?
c) The peak load on a power station is 30 MW. The loads having maximum demands of 25 MW,
10MW, 5 MW and 7 MW are connected to the power station. The capacity of the power station is
40MW and annual load factor is 50 % , find:
(i). Average load on the power station (ii). Energy supplied per year.
(iii). Demand factor. (iv). Diversity factor.