POWER PLANT ENGINEERING

UNIT-I Introduction: Energy resources and their availability, types of power plants, selection
of the plants, review of basic thermodynamic cycles used in power plants, Fuels and their
properties, flue gas analysis. Introduction to Nuclear Power plant. Classification of Nuclear
reactor.
UNIT-II Boilers: Different types of boilers, boiler mountings & accessories, Draught & its
calculations, airpreheater, feed water heater, super heater, Boiler efficiency, Equivalent
evaporation.
Rankine cycle, heat rate, steam rate, efficiency of Rankine cycle, parameters affecting the
efficiency of Rankine cycle, mean temp. of heat addition, Regenerative & Reheat cycle.
UNIT-III. Gas Turbine and Jet Propulsion: Gas turbine classification, Brayton cycle,
Principles of gas turbine, Gas turbine cycles with intercooling, reheat and regeneration and
their combinations, Stage efficiency, Polytropic efficiency, Deviation of actual cycles from
ideal cycles
Jet Propulsion: - Introduction to the principles of jet propulsion, Turbojet and turboprop
engines & their processes, Principle of rocket propulsion, Introduction to Rocket Engine and
Cryogenics.
UNIT-IV Compressible Flow: Stagnation Properties, Speed of Sound and Mach Number,
One-Dimensional Isentropic Flow, Variation of Fluid Velocity with Flow Area, Property
Relations for Isentropic Flow of Ideal Gases, Isentropic Flow through Nozzles, Converging
Nozzles, Converging–Diverging Nozzles, Shock Waves and Expansion, Normal Shocks,
Oblique Shocks, Prandtl–Meyer Expansion Waves, Duct Flow with Heat Transfer and
Negligible Friction (Rayleigh Flow), Property Relations for Rayleigh Flow, Choked Rayleigh
Flow
UNIT-V Power Plant Economics: load curve, different terms and definitions, cost of
electrical energy, tariffs methods of electrical energy, performance & operating
characteristics of power plants- incremental rate theory, input-output curves, efficiency, heat
rate, economic load sharing, Problems. Renewable and Nonrenewable Source
Text Books:

1. Nag.P.K. Power plant engineering: Tata McGraw-Hill.

2. Rajput R.K. Power plant engineering Laxmi publication

Reference Books:

1. Sharma, P. C. Power Plant Engineering: S. K. Kataria & Sons.

2. Drbal, L. F., Boston, P. G., Westra, K. L., Black, & Veatch. Power plant engineering: Chapman
& Hall.

Skrotzki, B. G. A., & Vopat, W. A. Power station engineering and economy: McGraw- Hill.