ME-330 CONVENTIONAL & RENEWABLE POWER PLANTS
CREDIT HOURS
Theory = 2
Practical = 0
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)
| S. No. | CLOs | PLO | Taxonomy |
| 1 | Analyze thermodynamic cycles and components related to steam and renewable energy power plants | PLO-2 Problem Analysis |
Cognitive Level 4* |
| 2 | Discuss the components of steam generators and renewable energy systems, considering their environmental performance | PLO-6 The Engineer and the World |
Cognitive Level 2* |
| 3 | Prepare a comprehensive report and presentation of an industrial facility while incorporating project management techniques | PLO-10 Project Management and Finance |
Cognitive Level 3* |
COURSE CONTENT
- Cycles: Supply and demand of electricity; Reheat Rankine cycle; Regenrative Rankine cycle; Open Type Feed Water Heaters (FWH); Closed Type FWHs with Drains Cascaded Backwards and Pumped Forward; supercritical powerplants; Gas turbine Power Plants; Combined Cycle Power Plants; Intercooling; Gas engines, Cogeneration of power and process heat; Back Pressure and Extraction Turbines; Trigeneration; Combined Cooling, Heating and Power Systems; Gas engines
- Fluid Flow through Nozzles: Stagnation properties, critical pressure ratio; convergent and convergent-divergent nozzles (subsonic and supersonic nozzles), Variation of velocity and pressure with area
- Steam Turbines: Impulse and reaction turbines; Pressure Compounding (Rateau Staging), Velocity Compounding (Curtis Staging), Reheat Factor and Condition Line, Casing or shaft arrangements, single-casing, tandem-compound, and crosscompound turbines
- Steam Generators: Types of boilers and their applications; fire tube boilers; water tube boilers; boiler components including feedwater heater, air preheater, economizer and superheater; boiler operation and safety. Internal and external water treatment methods
- Fossil fuels: including coal, oil and gas; combustion calculations; environmental pollution, Carbon capture
- Renewable Energy: Solar (flat plate and concentrated) collectors, photovoltaic cells, solar power plants, solar and wind maps, wind turbines, components and classification, Betz Limit
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Text Book(s)
- Farshid Zabihian, ‘Power Plant Engineering’, CRC Press, 2021.
- P. K. Nag, ‘Power Plant Engineering’, 4th ed., McGraw Hill, 2017.
- Mehmet Kanoglu, Yunus Cengel, John Cimbala, ‘Fundamentals and Applications of Renewable Energy’, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 2023.
Reference Book(s)
- S. Gulen, “Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants”, CRC Press, 2020.
- Yunus Çengel, Michael Boles, Mehmet Kanoğlu, “Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach”, 10th edition, McGraw Hill, 2024.
*For details of Taxonomy Levels CLICK HERE
