Friday 22 March 2019

Syllabus for Mid Semester-II (March-2019) -EPG (2140908)


Subject Code: 2140908
Subject Name: ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION
Chapter-1
Introduction: Amount of generation of electric power from Conventional and non-conventional sources of energy in Gujarat and India and some developed countries of the world.
Chapter-2
Steam power station: Schematic arrangement, advantages and disadvantages, choice of site, efficiency of steam power station, Types of prime movers, characteristic, speed control & auxiliaries. Environmental aspects for selecting the sites and locations of thermal power stations
Chapter-3
Hydro power station: Schematic arrangement, advantages and disadvantages, choice of site constituents of hydro power plant, Hydro turbine. Environmental aspects for selecting the sites and locations of hydro power stations.
Chapter-4
Nuclear power station: Schematic arrangement, advantages and disadvantages, selection of site, types of reactors, Hazards, Environmental aspects for selecting the sites and locations of nuclear power stations.
Chapter-5
Diesel power station: Introduction, Schematic arrangement, advantages and disadvantages, Choice and characteristic of diesel engines, auxiliaries.
Chapter-6
Gas turbine power plant: Schematic arrangement, advantages and disadvantages of Gas turbine power plant. Open cycle and Closed cycle gas turbine power plant, Combined cycle power plant, Comparison of various power plants.
Chapter-7
Tariff and Economic aspects in power Generation:
Terms commonly used in system operation, various factors affecting cost of generation: Load curves, load duration curves, Connected load, maximum load, Peak load, base load and peak load power plants, load factor, Plant capacity factor, Plant use factor, Demand factor, diversity factor, Cost of power plant, Tariffs
Chapter-11
Substation: Classification of Substations, substation equipments, Specification and selection of equipments, Site selection of substation
Chapter-12
Neutral Earthing: Introduction, isolated neutral, earth neutral systems-solid, resistance, reactance. Arc suppression coil, voltage transformer and earthing, transformer, earthing systems.


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