R. K. Hegde is Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering in Srinivas Institute of Technology, Mangalore, Karnataka. The author has more than 20 years of rich industrial and academic experience. Earlier he was involved in power plant operation and maintenance, handling high pressure FBC boilers, Babcock-Wilcox boilers, turbines and pumps. He worked in a power plant in maintenance and is also an authorized boiler operation engineer.

Preface


About the Author


 1. Introduction to Power Plants


 2. Fuels and Combustion


 3. Fuel-Handling Systems


 4. Steam Power Plant


 5. Steam Generator


 6. Fluidized Bed Combustion


 7. Draught System


 8. Feed Water Treatment


 9. Flow Through Nozzles


10. Steam Turbines


11. Steam Condenser and Circulating Water Systems


12. Gas Turbine Power Plant


13. Diesel Engine Power Plant


14. Power from Non-Conventional Sources


15. Hydroelectric Power Plant


16. Nuclear Power Plants


17. Power Plant Economics


18. Environmental Aspects of Power Station


19. Instrumentation and Equipments in Power Station


Index


 

• Information on contemporary topics in power plant technology such as super critical boiler technology


• Practical approach to delineate complex topics with visual aids and representational schemes


• Exhaustive coverage of power generation from non-conventional sources of energy


• Ample solved examples, multiple-choice and exercise questions for practice