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ME82 Eighth Semester B.E. Degree Examination, June-July 2009 Power Plant Engineering

Time: 3 hrs. Max. Marks:100 Note: Answer any FIVE full questions. '

1 a. What is a stoker? What are different types of stokers? Explain any two of them with sketch.
(08 Marks)

b. What is pulverized coal? Explain the BIN system of handling pulverized coal with a neat diagram. List the advantages and disadvantages of using pulverized coal. (10 Marks) c. What is the function of primary air and secondary air? (02 Marks) 2 a. Explain with a neat sketch the working of Benson boiler. What are advantages and disadvantages of it? ( 10 Marks) b. Explain with the help of sketches the principle of "Overfeed" and "Underfeed stokers".
(10 Marks) 3 a. What is draught? How are they classified? Explain with sketch the operation of balanced draught system. What are its advantages? ( 08 Marks)

b. What is a cooling tower? Explain the working of natural draught hyperbolic cooling tower with a neat sketch. (06 Marks) c. Determine the height of chimney to produce a static draught of 15mm of water. The temperature of the gases in the chimney is 270C and the temperature of air in the surroundings is 20C. Barometer reads 760mm of Hg. The value of R for air is 0.287kJ/kgK and for the flue gases is 0.255 kJ/kgK. (06 Marks) 4 a. Explain the necessity of cooling systems in a diesel engine. What are the methods of cooling the engine? Explain. ( 06 Marks) b. What is supercharging in diesel engines? Explain the main features of supercharging.
(05 Marks) c. List the functions of fuel injection system. Explain the different systems of solid injection. (09 Marks)

5 a. Bring out the advantages and disadvantages of gas turbine power plant over steam power plant. (06 Marks) b. Explain the following: i) Surge tank ii) Hydrograph. ( 04 Marks) C. The mean monthly discharge for 12 months at a particular site of a rover is tabulated below:
Months April Discharge in millions of m 3 p er month 500 Months October Discharge in millions of m per month 2000

May June
July August

200 1500
2500 3000

November December
January February

1500 1500
1000 800

September

2400

March

600

Draw : (i) Hydrograph for the given discharge and find average monthly flow & draw flow duration curve. (ii)The power available at mean flow of water if the available head is 80 meters at the site and overall efficiency of generation is 80percent. Take 30 days in a month.
(10 Marks)

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ME82 6 a. What is the nuclear reaction ? Discuss briefly different types of nuclear reaction .
b. Explain the following with sketch:
i) ii) c. 7 a. Pressurized water reactor (PWR) Liquid metal reactor (LMR) (10 Marks)

(05 Marks)

Discuss briefly the methods of nuclear waste disposal. Explain the following terms : i) Load factor ii) Capacity factor iii) Demand factor iv) Use factor
v) Diversity factor . (10

( 05 Marks)

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b. The power plant has the following annual factors :

Load factor = 0.75, Capacity factor = 0.60, Use factor = 0.65, Maximum demand is 60MW. Estimate i) The annual energy production ii) The reserve capacity over and above the peak load and iii) The hours during which the plant is not in service per year. ( 06 Marks)

. What is a load curve? What is its significance in power generation?

8 a. With the help of sketches explain the following :

( 04 Marks)

i) Coal handling ii) Ash Handling. i) Installed capacity of the plant = 200 MW ii) Capital cost = Rs.400 crores
iii) Rate of interest and depreciation = 12% iv) Annual cost of fuel, salaries and taxation = Rs.5 crores v) Load factors = 50%

(10 Marks)

b. Calculate the cost of generation per kWhr for a power station having the following data:

Also estimate the saving in cost per kWhr if annual load factor is raised to 60%. ( 10 Marks)

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