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The document outlines the course content for a Power Plants course at the University of Engineering & Technology, covering both conventional and non-conventional power plants, including various cycles and systems. It includes recommended textbooks and assessment criteria for the course. Additionally, it categorizes power plants into conventional (e.g., thermal, hydal, nuclear) and non-conventional types (e.g., wind, solar, geothermal).

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Lecture - 1 - Introduction & Course contents_120412

The document outlines the course content for a Power Plants course at the University of Engineering & Technology, covering both conventional and non-conventional power plants, including various cycles and systems. It includes recommended textbooks and assessment criteria for the course. Additionally, it categorizes power plants into conventional (e.g., thermal, hydal, nuclear) and non-conventional types (e.g., wind, solar, geothermal).

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POWER PLANTS

Course Name: (ME 415 & ME 415L) Credit Hours: (2, 1)


University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore (Narowal Campus)
COURSE CONTENTS
POWER PLANTS
COURSE CONTENTS
❑ Introduction to conventional and non-conventional power plants
❑ Rankine cycle, steam power plants, heat balance sheet
❑ Concepts of heat regeneration and co-generation
❑ Combined heat and power (CHP) systems, binary power plants;
❑ Brayton cycle, gas turbine power plants, with and without exhaust gas heat recovery
❑ Cooling of combustion chamber and gas turbine blades
COURSE CONTENTS

❑ Application of gas turbines in aircraft industry


❑ Flow through air intakes duct and nozzles, nozzle choking, and critical pressure ratio
❑ Ram jets, jet propulsion, propulsive thrust, turbojet engines, turboprop engines, and
their performance characteristics
❑ Introduction to nuclear power plants, environmental hazards, power plant site
selection power plants economics
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
POWER PLANTS
RECOMMENDED BOOKS

❑ Power Plant Technology by M. M. El – Wakil


❑ Power Plant Engineering by P.K Nag
❑ Modern power plant engineering by J. Weisman and R. Eckart
❑ Power plant system deign by K.W. Li and A. P. Priddy
❑ Power plant by F.T. Morse
❑ Standard Handbook of Power plant Engineering by Thomas C. Elliott, Kao Chen,
Robert C. Swanekamp
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
POWER PLANTS
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

✓ 1st surprise quiz – 10 Marks


✓ Mid term examination – 30 Marks

✓ 2nd surprise quiz – 10 Marks


✓ Final term examination – 40 Marks
✓ Sessional Marks – 10 Marks
POWER PLANTS
INTRODUCTION
POWER PLANTS

A power plant, also referred to as a power station or powerhouse and sometimes the
generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of
electric power. Most power stations contain one or more generators, a rotating
machine that converts mechanical power into electric power.
TYPES OF POWER PLANTS

There are two types of power plants

❑ Conventional power plants


❑ Non-conventional power plants
CONVENTIONAL POWER PLANTS
Those power plants for which the technology has been established and they are
meant for the large scale power production

❑ Thermal power plants


▪ Steam turbine power plants
▪ Gas turbine power plants
▪ Diesel and oil power plants
▪ Petrol and gas engines
CONVENTIONAL POWER PLANTS
❑ Hydal power plants
▪ Reaction Turbine (Hydraulic)
▪ Frances (Medium head & at Pressure low than atmospheric pressure)
▪ Kaplan (Low head) hydraulic turbine
▪ Impulse hydraulic turbine (High head & at atmospheric pressure)
▪ Pelton wheel

❑ Nuclear power plants


▪ Fission type power plants
▪ Fusion type power plants
NON-CONVENTIONAL POWER PLANTS
Those power plants for which technologies are under progress and these are meant
for small scale power productions

❑ Micro and Mini hydal power plants


❑ Wind turbine and wind mills (horizontal, vertical & Omni-directional)
❑ Solar energy utilization
▪ Photovoltaic solar cells
▪ Solar thermal energy
❑ Geothermal energy
❑ Ocean thermal energy conversion
❑ Tidal energy
❑ Biogas / Biomass
❑ Fuel cells

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