Power Station Practice

(a) Mention the various modern ash handling systems.

(b) What are the factors affecting cooling of water in cooling tower? 

(c) Enumerate advantages and disadvantages of hydropower plants. 

(d) What is a surge tank? 

(e) What are the requirements of fission process? 

(f) What are the essential components of a nuclear reactor? 

(g) State the merits and demerits of closed cycle gas turbine over open • cycle gas turbine power plant. 

(h) What is an Approximate penalty factor?

(i) What are the advantages and limitations of tidal power plant? 

(j) State the application of diesel power plant. 

(b) What is the difference between the thermal power plant and super thermal power plant?

What are the main and auxiliary equipments in a combined gas and steam turbine plants. Explain with layout the function of each component.

(b) What are the factors for location and site selection for the power plants? 

(a) What is geothermal energy? How this is extracted for power generation? Explain with neat and clean diagram? 

(b) What is economizer? Explain its role.

(a) What is M.H.D. power generation? Explain. Draw the block diagram and explain the working of each component.

(e) What are the advantages of substation grounding? What are the methods of substation grounding?

(d) What is economic dispatch? How the economic dispatch help to achieve the merit order dispatching of power plants? 

(c) What is the difference between impulse and reaction turbine. Give their example.

What are the various types of hydraulic turbines? Explain with neat and clean diagrams the operation of Pelton and Francis turbines. How they are different. 

(a) Define renewable energy sources. How these sources are different than conventional generation sources?

(b) Differentiate with advantage different bus bar arrangements.

(a) Explain substation grounding, Indoor & outdoor substation. 

(b) Describe typical layout & constructional details of pole mounted substation. 

(a) Write in brief about Gas insulated and hybrid electrical power substation.

(b) Write advantages and factors selecting the nuclear power plant.

(a)Explain about Plant layout and working for nuclear power plant.

A system consists of two plants connected by a transmission line as shown in figure 1. The load is at plant 2. If a load of 125 MW is transmitted from plant 1 to the load, there is a loss of 12.5 MW. Determine the generation schedule and the load demand if the cost of the received power is Rs 70/MWh. Assume that the incremental costs of the two plants are given by

Solve the problem using (a) corrdination equation method. (b) penalty factor (12.5) 

(a) Mention the various modern ash handling systems.

(b) What are the factors affecting cooling of water in cooling tower? 

(c) Enumerate advantages and disadvantages of hydropower plants. 

(d) What is a surge tank? 

(e) What are the requirements of fission process? 

(f) What are the essential components of a nuclear reactor? 

(g) State the merits and demerits of closed cycle gas turbine over open • cycle gas turbine power plant. 

(h) What is an Approximate penalty factor?

(i) What are the advantages and limitations of tidal power plant? 

(j) State the application of diesel power plant. 

Describe open cycle MHD system with suitable sketch.

Explain with a neat diagram of wind electric generating power plant.

Write applications of transformer, circuit breaker, isolator, CT, PT and Lightning Arrestors in electrical sub-station.

Discuss different types of electrical sub-stations. Explain, with a typical layout, construction of Outdoor sub-stations. 

Explain following terms in reference to Economic operation of Power System-

(i) Performance Curves

(ii)Transmission loss formula

With the help of a sketch show all the important part of nuclear reactor. Describe briefly the functions of each part. 

What is the function of a hydraulic turbine? How are the turbines classified? Explain anyone with a suitable sketch. 

Give the layout of a modern steam power plant and explain it briefly.

(b) Draw and explain characteristics of hydro-electric turbines.

Write short note on:

(b) Indoor substation

Write short note on:

(a) Gas insulated substation

(b) What are the major equipments in pole mounted substation. Draw the neat and clean diagram showing all components. 

(a) What are different bus bar arrangements? Explain with neat and clean diagram the breaker and half scheme. 

What is the purpose of reactor in nuclear power plants. Explain with neat and clean diagrams the liquid metal fuelled reactor and fast breeder nuclear reactor. 

(b) Develop economic dispatch coordination equations considering the transmission loss. Give the iterative process to solve the equations

(a) What are the main and auxiliary equipments in a thermal powerplant. List all of them. 

(a) Draw and explain typical layout of a diesel engine power station.

Write methods for improving thermal efficiency of Gas Turbine Plant.

Explain in detail how Fuel and Ash are handled in thermal power plant.

Explain in detail how Fuel and Ash are handled in thermal power plant.

Write short notes on:-

(i) Solar energy

(e) Classify different types Nuclear Reactors.

(d) What do you understand by supercharging in diesel engine?

(c) Compare between Kaplan and Francis turbine.

(b) Differentiate between open and closed cycle gas turbine plants.

(a) Write conditions for selecting site of a thermal station.