Power Station Engineering

Module -I

Steam and hydro power plant: — Resources and Development of Power in India Scenario.
Principles of operation of steam turbine, Types of steam turbine, Impulse Turbine, Reaction
Turbine, Impulse Reaction Turbine. Vapor Power Cycles: Rankine cycle, Comparison of
Rankine and Carnot vapor cycles

Steam Power Plant: Plant Layout, Working of different Circuits, Fuel and handling equipment,
types of coals, coal handling, choice of handling equipment, coal storage, Ash handling systems.

Hydro Electric Power Plant: Classification — Typical layouts — plant auxiliaries —Plant
operation with and without pumped storage plants, classification of dams and spill ways.

Module – II

Nuclear, diesel and gas power plants:

Nuclear Power Station: Nuclear fuel — breeding and fertile materials — Nuclear reactor —
reactor operation. Types of Reactors: Pressurized water reactor, Boiling water reactor, sodium-
graphite reactor, fast Breeder Reactor, homogeneous Reactor, Gas cooled Reactor, Radiation
hazards and shielding radioactive waste disposal.

Diesel Power Plant: Basic types of IC Engines, Schematic diagram, Operation, Advantages,
Disadvantages, Applications of Diesel power plant.

Gas Power Plant: Operating principle of gas power plant with single line diagram.

Module – III

Substations:

Air insulated substations: Indoor and Outdoor substations, Substations layout showing the
location of all the substation equipment. Bus bar arrangements in the Sub-Stations: Simple
arrangements like single bus bar, sectionalized single bus bar, main and transfer bus bar system
with relevant diagrams.

Gas insulated substations: different types, single line diagram, bus bar, construction aspects,
Installation and maintenance, advantages.

g3 substation: Introduction to g3 (go gas for grid) substation, advantages. Comparison of Air, SF6
and g3 (go gas for grid) substations.

Module – IV

Power Factor and Voltage Control:

Power factor: Causes of low p.f., Disadvantages of low p.f., Methods of Improving p.f: Shunt
Capacitors, Series Capacitors, Phase advancing, importance of improving power factor, Most
economical p.f. for constant KW load and constant KVA type loads, Numerical Problems.

Voltage Control: Importance of voltage control, Methods of Voltage Control: Synchronous

Condenser, Tap changing transformers, auto-transformer tap changing and Booster
Transformers.

Module – V

Power Plant Economics And Environmental Considerations: Capital cost, investment of

fixed charges, operating costs, general arrangement of power distribution, Load curves, load
duration curve. Definitions of connected load, Maximum demand, demand factor, average load,
load factor, diversity factor — related exercises. Effluents from power plants and Impact on
environment — pollutants and pollution standards — Methods of Pollution control.

Module – VI

Power from Non-Conventional Sources:

Introduction to Solar energy, Fuel cells, Thermo electric and Thermo ionic, Wind Energy, MHD
Power plant, wave and tidal Energy, ocean thermal energy, Biogas, and Geothernal energy.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. M.L. Soni, P.V. Gupta, U.S. Bhatnagar and A. Chakraborti, “A Text Book on Power
System Engineering”, 1st Ed., Dhanpat Rai and Co. Pvt. Ltd., 1999.

2. C.L.Wadhawa, “Electrical Power Systems”, 7th Revised Ed., New Age International (P)
Limited, 2001.

3. A.K. Raja, Amit Prakash Srivastava, and Manish Dwivedi, “Power plant Engineering,” 1st
Edition, New Age International (P) Limited, 2006, pp. 1-463.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. M.V. Deshpande, “Elements of Power Station Design and Practice”, 1st Ed., Wheeler
Publishing, 2001.

2. S.N.Singh, “Electrical Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution”, 2nd Ed., PHI,
2003.

3. P.P. Wals, P. Fletcher, “Gas Turbine Performance”, 2nd Ed., Blackwell Publisher, 2004.

4. V.K. Mehta and Rohit Mehta, “Principles of Power Systems”, S. Chand and Company
Ltd., New Delhi, 2004.

5. P.K.Nag, Power Plant Engineering, TMH Publication.