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Conventional and Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

This document provides an overview of conventional and non-conventional energy sources, including their economics and operation. It discusses various power plant types such as thermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, diesel, gas turbine, solar, wind, and fuel cells. Specific topics covered include the steam cycle and components of coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, and solar power plants. It also addresses energy sources from biomass, geothermal, tidal, and MHD technologies.

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69 views

Conventional and Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

This document provides an overview of conventional and non-conventional energy sources, including their economics and operation. It discusses various power plant types such as thermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, diesel, gas turbine, solar, wind, and fuel cells. Specific topics covered include the steam cycle and components of coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, and solar power plants. It also addresses energy sources from biomass, geothermal, tidal, and MHD technologies.

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Jeremy Hensley
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Conventional and Non- Conventional sources

of energy
PARTICULARS
Sr No.
1 Conventional and Non- Conventional sources of energy
Present energy scenario world wide and Indian
2 perspective.
3 Economics of the power plant
4 Load curve, load duration curve, various factors and
5 Problem
6 Problem
effects of fluctuating load on operation and methods of
7 meeting fluctuating load.
Selection of generating equipment, load sharing cost of
8 electrical energy,
9 basic tariff methods
10 (numericals)
11 Thermal power plant
Law of Thermodynamics. Analysis of steam cycle12 Carnot,
13 Rankine, Reheat cycle and Regenerative cycle.
14 Layout of power plant
15 Lay out of pulverized coal burners,
16 fluidized bed combustion
17 Coal Handling System
18 ash handling system
Forced draught and induced draught fans, boiler feed
19 pumps,
super heater regenerators, condensers, boilers,
20 deaerators and cooling towers.
21 Rainfall, run off and its measurement hydrograph,
22 flow duration curve, Problems
23 Problems
reservoir storage capacity, classification of plants-run
24 off river plant, storage river plant,
pumped storage,plant, layout of hydroelectric power
25 plant,
26 turbine-pelton,,Kaplan, Francis(Francis)
Introduction of nuclear engineering, fission, fusion,
27 nuclear material

Date
Starte
d

Date
Complet
ed

28 , thermal fission reactor and power plant - PWR BWR ,


29 PWR

BWR
30
liquid metal fast breeder, reactors, reactor control,
31 introduction to plasma technology.
32 Diesel and gas turbine power plant
33 General layout, Advantages and disadvantages,
34 performance of gas turbine power plant,
35 combined heat power generation.
Solar concentrators and tracking ; Dish and Parabolic
36 trough concentrating generating systems
37 Central tower solar thermal power plants
38 Solar Ponds.
Basic principle of power generation in a PV cell ; Band
39 gap and
40 efficiency of PV cells solar cell characteristics,
Manufacturing methods of mono- and poly-crystalline
41 cells; Amorphous silicon thin film cells.
42 Basic component of WEC, Types of wind turbine-HAWT,
43 VAWT, Performance parameters of wind turbine,
Power in wind, Wind farms for bulk power supply to
44 grid.
Wind electric generators, wind characteristics and site
45 selection
Introduction to fuel cell, principle of operation of fuel
46 cell, Types of fuel cell
47 Introduction to other sources
Basics of power generation by using Biomass,
48 geothermal and
49 tidal energy sources, MHD

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