Module I [4 hours]
Vapor Power cycle: Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle, Reheat cycle, Regenerative cycles, Combined cycle.

Module II [6 hours]
Steam Generators: Types of Steam Generators, Fire-tube Boilers, Water-Tube Boilers, Pulverised Coal Burners, Principle of Fluidised Bed Combustion (FBC) System, Accessories, Performance of Boilers,.

Module III [6 hours]
Nozzle: Types of nozzles, Flow of steam through nozzles, Supersaturated or metastable expansion of steam in a nozzle.

Module IV [6 hours]
Steam Turbine: Classification of steam turbines, Impulse turbine, reaction turbine, Turbine efficiencies, Energy losses in steam turbines, Steam turbine governing and control.

Module V [6 hours]
Condensers: Classification of condensers, Jet condenser, surface condenser, Air leakage, Vacuum efficiency, Condenser efficiency, Circulating Water System, Cooling Towers, Cooling Tower Calculations.

Module VI [8 hours]
Nuclear Power Plant: Release of nuclear energy, Criticality of reactors, Thermal reactors, nuclear fuels, Moderator, Reflector, Coolant and control of reactors, BWR, PWR and gas cooled reactors. Hydroelectric Power Plant: Hydrological Cycle, Hydraulic Turbines, Performance of Turbines.

To understand the working principle of various components of power plant.

To understand the working principle of various power plant such as Thermal, Nuclear and hydroelectric power plant.

CO1: To analyze the vapor power cycle
CO2: To understand the working principle of different steam generators.
CO3: To describe and analyze the working of steam turbines.
CO4: To explain the working of the condenser
COP5: To understand the workings of nuclear power plants.

P.K Nag, Power Plant Engineering, McGraw Hill, 5th Edition, 2021

S.C Arora, A V Domkundwar, Power Plant Engineering, Dhanpat Rai Publication, 6/E 2024

Dipak Kumar Mandal , Somnath Chakrabarti , Arup Kumar Das , Prasanta Kumar Das, Power Plant Engineering: Theory and Practice, Wiley, 1st Edition 2019

R. Yadav, Rajay, Sanjay, Fundamentals of Power Plant Engineering, IK International Pvt. Ltd, 2nd Edition 2022