JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Prerequisites

Basic Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics

Course Objective

The course is intended to

• Provide in awareness about resources of energies available in India for Power Production by Thermal and Nuclear Processes.
• Understand and know the requirements for a Thermal Power Plant and Nuclear Power Plant, from sources to consumption and economics of power plants.
• Study and learn the processes and cycles followed in Thermal Power Plants and nuclear power plants and components used in the power plants.
• Gain the knowledge on steam power plants, steam generators and gas turbine power plants, their analyses on fuel and fluidized bed combustion, ash handling systems.
• Learn the practices followed in Thermal Power Plant and Nuclear Power Plants, to better environmental conditions and the safety measures.
• Gain the knowledge on Power Load calculation, distribution and optimum loading. Etc.
• Know various methods for the Economies of Power Generation and power plant instrumentation.

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

• Describe how fission is accomplished and the basics of how a nuclear reactor produces energy.
• Discuss the thermal cycle and describe heat transfer and fluid flow.
• Identify the major components of a nuclear power plant including generators, turbines, and cooling systems.
• Examine nuclear power plant safety systems and the concepts of redundancy and defense-in- depth.
• Describe the requirements associated with a refuel outage and nuclear fuel reload

UNIT - I

INTRODUCTION: Sources of energy, Type of Power plants. Direct energy conversion system, Energy sources in India, Recent developments in power generation, Combustion of coal, Volumetric analysis, Gravimetric analysis. Fuel gas analysis. Steam power plant: Introduction. General layout of steam power plant, Modern coal, fired Steam, Steam power plant. Power plant cycle, Fuel Handling, Combustion equipment, Ash handling, Dust collectors. Steam Generators: Types, Accessories. Feed water heaters, Performance of boiling, Water treatment, Cooling towers. Steam turbines. Compounding of turbines, Steam condensers, Jet and surface condensers.

UNIT - II

GAS TURBINE POWER PLANT: Cogeneration. Combined cycle power plant, Analysis, Waste heat recovery, IGCC power plant, Fluidized bed, Combustion, Advantages, Disadvantages

UNIT - III

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: Nuclear physics, Nuclear Reactor, Classification, Types of reactors, Site selection. Method of enriching uranium. Application of nuclear power plant. Nuclear Power Plant Safety: Bi-Product of nuclear power generation, Economics of nuclear power plant, Nuclear power plant in India, Future of nuclear power.

R19 M.Tech. Thermal Engineering

UNIT - IV

ECONOMICS OF POWER GENERATION: Factors affecting the economics, Loading factors, Utilization factor, Performance and operating characteristics of power plant, Point economic load sharing, Depreciation. Energy rate, Criteria for optimum loading. Specific economic energy problem

UNIT - V

POWER PLANT INSTRUMENTATIONS: Classification, Pressure measuring instrument, Temperature measurement and Flow Measurement, Analysis of combustion gases, Pollution types, Methods of control.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Power Plant Engineering by P. K. Nag, TMH
• 2. Power Plant Engineering by P. C. Sharma, Kotearia, Publications.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Power Plant Engineering by R. K. Rajput, Lakshmi Publications.
• 2. Power Plant Technology by Wakil, McGraw Hill R19 M.Tech. Thermal Engineering M. TECH. I Year II Sem. (THERMAL ENGINEERING)