ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
REGULATIONS – 2017
CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM
ME8792 Power Plant Engineering

UNIT I COAL BASED THERMAL POWER PLANTS 
Layout of modern coal power plant,

Steam & Heat rate, Subsystems of thermal power plants

Binary Cycles and Co generation systems.
UNIT II DIESEL, GAS TURBINE AND COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS  
Brayton Cycle

Combined Cycle Power Plants.

Integrated Gasifier based Combined Cycle systems.
UNIT III NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS  
Layout and subsystems of Nuclear Power Plants,

Uranium reactor (CANDU),

Safety measures for Nuclear Power plants.
UNIT IV POWER FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY Hydro Electric Power Plants

Tidal, Solar Photo Voltaic

Biogas and Fuel Cell power systems.
UNIT V ENERGY, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES OF POWER PLANTS  
Load distribution parameters

Capital & Operating Cost of different power plants.