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Power Plant Automation Course

This document outlines the teaching scheme, objectives, syllabus, learning outcomes, recommended textbooks, and list of experiments for the course IC6XX – POWER PLANT AUTOMATION at Dharmsinh Desai University. The objectives are to prepare students with knowledge of various power plant types, control techniques for boilers and turbines, and safety standards. The syllabus covers topics like power plant classification, boiler and turbine control, processes, subsystem automation, instrumentation, optimization, and interlocks. Students will learn to classify power plants, apply control techniques, understand plant processes, and describe instrumentation, optimization, and safety systems.

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Power Plant Automation Course

This document outlines the teaching scheme, objectives, syllabus, learning outcomes, recommended textbooks, and list of experiments for the course IC6XX – POWER PLANT AUTOMATION at Dharmsinh Desai University. The objectives are to prepare students with knowledge of various power plant types, control techniques for boilers and turbines, and safety standards. The syllabus covers topics like power plant classification, boiler and turbine control, processes, subsystem automation, instrumentation, optimization, and interlocks. Students will learn to classify power plants, apply control techniques, understand plant processes, and describe instrumentation, optimization, and safety systems.

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IC6XX – POWER PLANT AUTOMATION

SEM-VIII (B.Tech, Final Year)


Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering
Faculty of Technology, Dharmsinh Desai University

Teaching Scheme
Marks Credit Structure
(Hours)
Lect Tut Prac Ext Sess. TW Prac Total Lect Tut Prac Total
4 0 2 60 40 25 25 150 4 0 2 5

A. OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE


− To prepare students to acquire knowledge various types of power plants.
− To prepare students to acquire knowledge different control techniques for boiler and
turbine.
− To prepare students to acquire knowledge about various interlocks and safety standards
for turbine and generator.

B. DETAILED SYLLABUS
[A] Introduction to Power Plant:
Plant overview, Role of Control and instrumentation in power plant, Classification of power
plants: thermal, hydro, combined cycle and nuclear.

[B] Boiler & Turbine Supervisory Control:


Introduction, Operation, Drum level control, Combustion control , Turbovisory system,
Measurement and analysis of gas, Super-heated steam temperature, Level, Pressure and Flow.
Coordinated controls of boiler and turbine.

[C] Power Plant Process:


Boiler process, Turbine process, Fuel Handling Plant, Air Compressor, etc.

[D] Power Plant Subsystem Automation:


Control of mill throughput, Mill temperature control, Forced draught control, Feed pump
control, Boiler-following-turbine load control, Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGRs) .

[E] Electrical Instruments and Metering:


Recorders and Industrial Displays, Electrical Instruments and Metering Working of meters,
Meter calibration.

[F] Plant Optimization:


Performance optimization of power plant with integrated Controls, Plant Optimization
Performance measurement of power plant.
[G]System Interlocks and Safety:
Turbine Interlock and Protections, Interlock and Protections for Generator.

C. LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completion of the course students should be able to:

− Classify various power plants and understand the role of control and Instrumentation in
power plant.
− To apply supervisory control techniques for boiler and turbine.
− Learn different power plant processes, viz. Turbine process, boiler process, etc.
− Describe various recorders, Industrial Displays, working of meters and Meter calibration.
− Measure plant optimization performance parameters
− Describe turbine interlock and protections for generators.

D. RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS
1. Modern Power Station Practice: Incorporating Modern Power System Practice: Vol - F
Control and Instrumentation. / by British Electricity International.
2. Instrumentation Engg's Handbook on Process Control - Bela G. Liptak.
3. Power plant Engineering – P.K.Nag, Mc Graw Hill, 3rd edition

E. REFERENCE BOOKS & NOTES


1. Power plant instrumentation and control handbook – Swapan Basu and Ajaykumar
Debnath, Academic Press, 1st edition
2. Standard Handbook of Powerplant Engineering – Thomas C. Elliot, Mc Graw Hill
3. Energy and Power Generation Handbook – K.R.Rao, ASME Press,

A. LIST OF EXPERIMENTS

1. Study of General layout of thermal power plant.


2. Study of Turbovisory system
3. Study of fuel handling system in coal based power plant.
4. Study of Control techniques for power plant process.
5. Study of drum level water control and swell and shrink phenomenon.
6. Study of air pollution by a thermal power plant.
7. Study of water pollution by a thermal power plant.
8. Study of various combustion process control.
9. Study of wireless monitoring of energy measurement.
10. Study of different Safety and Interlocking techniques for turbine and generator.

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