POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Thermal Engineering Layout of Thermal Power plant Fuel and Ash circuit Water and

it Water and Steam circuit Air and fuel gas circuit Cooling water circuit Merits and demerits of Thermal power plant Steam turbine Steam power cycle Carnot , Rankine and modified Rankine cycles classification of steam turbines Steam condensers Boilers, Types of boilers (Fire tube and water tube boilers) Fluidised Bed Combustion( FBC), Pulverised Coal Fired Boiler , Waste heat and Bio-mass boilers Performance of boilers actual , equivalent and factor of evaporation boiler efficiency Factors influencing boiler efficiency Fuels: coal,coal preparation,furnace grates Coal and ash handling system Fans(ID,FD), ESP ,Draught,chimney Boiler components -Pressure parts,Non pressure parts Economizer,Drums. Water walls,super heaters,Re-heaters,Air pressure heaters Turbines,condensers and piping

Manufacturing Technology Welding processes -fusion welding process -SMAW,SAW , GTAW , GMAW Welding techniques -Arc initiation and maintenance,Stray are ,weld beads,welding positions,welding parameters ,heat input weld defects- Porosity,undercut,cracks,blow holes, etcTesting of welds -Destructive testing and non-destructive testing Fabrication techniques -Material Identification, Marking,cutting,transfer of identification,layouts, Fit-up,Dimension control,Use of measuring instruments,Cleaning,Ball test ,Preservation of tube inner surface,Painting

Engineering Drawing Lines,construction of lines,Angles,curves,Circle,Ellipse,Parabola,Hyperbola,Cycloid,Involute,Polygons solids-cube,parallelograms,cone,pyramid Isometric views -simple exercises,piping drawings Orthographic projections -First angle and third angle projections Section of solids,Inter-penetration of solids Surface developments Machine drawing -assembly of components Blue print reading