THERMAL POWER ENGINEERING
Paper Code : ME(EE) 411
Credits: 3
Water Tube & Fire Tube boilers, Circulating Principles, Forced Circulation, Critical pressure, Superheaters, Reheaters, attemperators, induced draught, forced draught and secondary air Fans, Boiler performance analysis and heat balance. Combustion Systems, Environmental Protection – ESP, Cyclone Separator, Dust Collector etc.
Rotary Thermodynamic devices – Steam turbines & their classifications – Impulse & Reaction type Turbines, Thermodynamics of compressible fluid-flow, equation and continuity – Isentropic flow through nozzles, velocity diagram, Blade efficiency, optimum velocity ratio, multi-staging, velocity & pressure compounding, losses in turbines, erosion of turbine blades, turbine governing, performance analysis of turbine, Condensing system.
IC Engines – classification. Analysis of a standard cycle, fuel characteristic of SI & CI Engine, Combustion, Engine performance. Automotive Engine exhaust emission and their control.
Gas turbine Analysis – Regeneration - Reheating, Isentropic efficiency. Combustion efficiency.
Text:
- P.K.Nag- Engineering Thermodynamics – TMH ,2/e
- P K Nag- Power Plant Engg. - TMH Pub
- P.S. Ballaney- Thermal Engineering – Khanna Pub
- Domkundwar & Arora- Power Plant Engineering –.Dhanpat Rai & Co.
Reference:
- Cengel — Thermodynamics , 3/e ,TMH
- Et-Wakil—Power Plant Engineering , MH
- M W Zemansky & R.H.Dittman -Heat and Thermodynamics – McGraw Hill ,7/e
