power plant engineering

[...]... plants, which are discussed in this book, are, 1 Steam power plant 2 Diesel power plant 3 Gas turbine power plant 4 Nuclear power plant 5 Hydro electric power plant The Steam Power Plant, Diesel Power Plant, Gas Turbine Power Plant and Nuclear Power Plants are called THERMAL POWER PLANT, because these convert heat into electric energy FUNDAMENTAL OF POWER PLANT 3 1.4 ENERGY Energy is the capacity for doing... 8.14.3 Forced Circulation Cooling System 8.15 Diesel Plant Operation 8.16 Efficiency of Diesel Power Plant 8.17 Heat Balance Sheet Chapter 9 : Gas Turbine Power Plant 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Classification of Gas Turbine Power Plant 9.2.1 Open Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant 9.2.2 Closed Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant 9.3 Elements of Gas Turbine Power Plants 9.3.1 Compressors 9.3.2 Intercoolers and Heat... Cost of Nuclear Power Plant Nuclear Power Station in India Light Water Reactor (LWR) and Heavy Water Reactor (HWR) 10.16.1 Importance of Heavy Water 10.17 Site Selection 10.18 Comparison of Nulcear Power Plant and Steam Power Plant 10.19 Multiplication Factor 10.20 Uranium Enrichment 10.21 Reactor Power Control 10.22 Nuclear Power Plant Economics 10.23 Safety Measures for Nuclear Power Plants 10.24 Site... Accidents Chapter 11 : Hydro-Electric Power Plants 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 Introduction Run-Off Hydrograph and Flow Duration Curve The Mass Curve Selection of Site for a Hydro-Electric Power Plant Essential Features of a Water -Power Plant Calculations of Water Power Plants Classification of Hydro -Plant 11.8.1 Storage Plants 11.8.2 Run-of-River Power Plants 327 327... 130 131 132 132 (xi) 3.12 Ideal and Realized Load Curves 3.13 Effect of Variable Load on Power Plan Design 3.14 Effect of Variable Load on Power Plant Operation Chapter 4 : Steam Power Plant 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Essentials of Steam Power Plant Equipment 4.2.1 Power Station Design 4.2.2 Characteristics of Steam Power Plant 4.3 Coal Handling 4.3.1 Dewatering of Coal 4.4 Fuel Burning Furnaces 4.4.1 Types... Diesel Power Plant 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Operating Principle 8.3 Basic Types of IC Engines 8.3.1 Two-Stroke, Spark Ignition Gas Engines/Petrol Engines 8.3.2 Diesel Engines/Heavy Oil Engines 8.3.3 Duel Fuel Engines 8.3.4 High Compression Gas Engines 8.4 Advantage of Diesel Power Plant 8.5 Disadvantage of Diesel Power Plant 8.6 Application of Diesel Power Plant 8.7 General Layout of Diesel Power Plant. .. population depends on these natural resources Depletion of these natural resources such as fuel, fodder, and housing power plant; 1.2 CONCEPT OF POWER PLANT A power plant is assembly of systems or subsystems to generate electricity, i.e., power with economy and requirements The power plant itself must be useful economically and environmental friendly to the society The present book is oriented to conventional... country, enough emphasis has been given for thermal Power plants in the IX plan period The location of hydel -power plants is mostly determined by the natural topography available and location of thermal plants is dictated by the source of fuel or transportation facilities available if the, power plant is to be located far from coalmines For nuclear power plant any site can be selected paying due consideration... FUNDAMENTAL OF POWER PLANT 1.13 CLASSIFICATION OF POWER PLANT CYCLE Power plants cycle generally divided in to the following groups, (1) Vapour Power Cycle (Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle, Regenerative cycle, Reheat cycle, Binary vapour cycle) (2) Gas Power Cycles (Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Dual combustion cycle, Gas turbine cycle.) 1.13.1 CARNOT CYCLE This cycle is of great value to heat power theory although... proportional to the square of its speed 1.6 POWER Power is the rate doing work, which equals energy per time Energy is thus required to produce power We need energy to run power plants to generate electricity We need power to run our appliances, and heat our homes Without energy we would not have electricity The units of power are watts, joules per second, and horsepower, where ; 1 Watt = 1 joule per second . Water -Power Plant 349 11.7 Calculations of Water Power Plants 351 11.8 Classification of Hydro -Plant 352 11.8.1 Storage Plants 352 11.8.2 Run-of-River Power Plants 354 (xvi) 11.8.3 Pumped Storage Power. 238 8.4 Advantage of Diesel Power Plant 238 8.5 Disadvantage of Diesel Power Plant 238 8.6 Application of Diesel Power Plant 238 8.7 General Layout of Diesel Power Plant 239 8.8 Performance of. Power Plant 253 8.17 Heat Balance Sheet 255 Chapter 9 : Gas Turbine Power Plant 267 9.1 Introduction 267 9.2 Classification of Gas Turbine Power Plant 267 9.2.1 Open Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant