Anna University – CME384 Power Plant Engineering Regulation 2021 Syllabus , Notes Book , Important Questions, Question Paper with Answers Previous Year Question Paper.
UNIT – I COAL BASED THERMAL POWER PLANTS CME384 Power Plant Engineering
Rankine cycle – improvisations, Layout of modern coal power plant, Super Critical Boilers, FBC Boilers,
Turbines, Condensers, Steam & Heat rate, Subsystems of thermal power plants – Fuel and ash handling,
Draught system, Feed water treatment. Binary Cycles and Cogeneration systems.
UNIT – II DIESEL, GAS TURBINE AND COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS CME384 Power Plant Engineering question paper
Otto, Diesel, Dual & Brayton Cycle – Analysis & Optimisation. Components of Diesel and Gas Turbine power
plants. Combined Cycle Power Plants. Integrated Gasifier based Combined Cycle systems.
UNIT – III NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS CME384 Power Plant Engineering
Basics of Nuclear Engineering, Layout and subsystems of Nuclear Power Plants, Working of Nuclear Reactors
: Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), CANada Deuterium- Uranium reactor
(CANDU), Breeder, Gas Cooled and Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors. Safety measures for Nuclear Power
plants.
UNIT – IV POWER FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY CME384 Power Plant Engineering important question
Hydro Electric Power Plants – Classification, Typical Layout and associated components including Turbines.
Principle, Construction and working of Wind, Tidal, Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV), Solar Thermal, Geo Thermal,
Biogas and Fuel Cell power systems.
UNIT – V ENERGY, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES OF POWER PLANTS CME384 Power Plant Engineering
Power tariff types, Load distribution parameters, load curve, Comparison of site selection criteria, relative
merits & demerits, Capital & Operating Cost of different power plants. Pollution control technologies including
Waste Disposal Options for Coal and Nuclear Power Plants.
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TEXT BOOKS: CME384 Power Plant Engineering Notes
1. Nag. P.K., “Power Plant Engineering”, Third Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd.,
2008.
2. A Textbook of Power Plant Engineeringby R.K. Rajput | 1 January 2016
REFERENCES: CME384 Power Plant Engineering
1. El-Wakil. M.M., “Power Plant Technology”, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2010.
2. Godfrey Boyle, “Renewable energy”, Open University, Oxford University Press in association with
the Open University, 2004.
3. Thomas C. Elliott, Kao Chen and Robert C. Swanekamp, “Power Plant Engineering”, Second
Edition, Standard Handbook of McGraw – Hill, 1998.
4. Power Plant Engineeringby B. Vijaya Ramnath C. Elanchezhian, L. Saravanakumar | 1 November
2019
5. Power Plant Engineering, As per AICTE: Theory and Practice by Dipak Kumar Mandal, Somnath
Chakrabarti, et al. | 1 January 2019