EX-503 (A) · Electrical Power Generation & Economy/Official Syllabus
Electrical Power Generation & Economy (EX-503 (A)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Introduction & Hydro Electric Power Plants
- Introduction: Energy sources and their availability
- Principle types of power plants, their special features and applications, Present status and future trends
- Hydro Electric Power Plants: Essentials, Classifications, Hydroelectric survey
- Rainfall run-off, Hydrograph, Flow duration curve, Mass curve, Storage capacity
- Site selection, Plant layout, various components
- Types of turbines, Governor and speed regulation
- Pumped storage, Small scale hydro-electric plants (mini and micro)
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Unit 2
Thermal Power Plant
- Thermal Power Plant: General developing trends, Essentials, Plant layout
- Coal-its storage, Preparation, Handling, Feeding and burning
- Cooling towers, Ash handling, Water treatment plant
- High pressure boilers and steam turbines, Components of thermal power plant
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Unit 3
Non-Conventional Power Generation
- Geothermal power plants
- Electricity from biomass
- Direct energy conversion systems (Solar and Wind)
- Thermo-electric conversion system
- Fuel cells
- Magneto-Hydro dynamic system
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Unit 4
Gas Turbine and Nuclear Power Plants
- Gas Turbine Power Plants: Field of use, Components, Plant layout, Comparison with steam power plants, combined steam and gas power plants
- Nuclear Power Plant: Nuclear fuels, Nuclear energy, Main components of nuclear power plant
- Nuclear reactors types and applications, Radiation shielding, Radioactive and waste disposal safety aspect
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Unit 5
Power Plant Economics
- Cost of electrical energy, Selection of type of generation and generation equipment
- Performance and operating characteristics of power plants
- Economic scheduling principle
- Load curves
- Effect of load on power plant design
- Load forecasting
- electric tariffs
- Peak load pricing
Reference Books
- Power Plant Engineering — Deshpande, M.V. — Tata McGraw Hill — 2004
- Generation of Electrical Energy — Gupta, B.R. — S. Chand — 1998
- Electrical Power System Design — Deshpande, M.V. — McGraw Hill — 2004
- Power Generation and Control — Wood, A.J., Wollenberg, B.F. — John Wiley — 2004
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