We are pleased to
inform you that we have released our new book ‘Power Plant Engineering’ by Dr Samsher Gautam.
ISBN: 9789325960060
Price: 250 /- Pages: 384
Year: 2012
Size: 6.75” x 9.5”
Bound: Paperback
About the Book
The book has been written
for B.Tech / BE students in conformity with the syllabuses of various Indian
universities. Special care has been taken to explain the complicated subject of
power plant engineering in a language and with an approach so as to make it
comprehensible and interesting to the undergraduate students. Thus, the basic
concepts have been presented in brief but with full clarity. The orientation of
the book has been kept towards the practical aspect of running the power plants
while retaining the theoretical aspects at the same time, which is the unique
feature of this book. Topics mentioned hereunder are either unique to this book
or have received a focussed treatment:
·
Energy conservation and
power tariff system (availability-based tariff).
·
Latest technology used in
sub-critical / supercritical / fluidized bed boilers, losses in turbine,
condenser and its tube cleaning and cooling tower.
·
Gas turbine cycle with
its modification, blade cooling, jet propulsion.
·
Nuclear power strategy of
India
and nuclear power generation.
·
Mini- and micro-
hydroelectric generation, governing of hydro turbines and diesel power plants.
·
Non-conventional power
generation by solar thermal and photovoltaic, wind, gasification, geothermal,
tidal, thermionic, thermoelectric, tidal, and biomass.
·
Latest techniques of
combined cycle power generation.
·
Measurement of various
parameters and their controls.
·
Environmental aspects of
power plants.
The book is replete with solved
examples. Every chapter ends with a summary, objective type questions and
review questions. Practical problems have been provided wherever required.
References of related published works and website addresses have also been
provided for further studies.
Steam tables and Mollier diagram
have been provided in the end as Annexure.
Contents
of the Book
1.
Power Scenario in India
2.
Coal-Based Thermal
Stations
3.
Gas Turbine Power Plant
4.
Nuclear Power Plant
5.
Hydroelectric Power
6.
Diesel Power
Plant
7.
Non-conventional Power
Plants
8.
Combined Cycle Plants
9.
Instrumentation
10.
Environmental Concerns on
Power Plants
About
the author
Dr Samsher Gautam did his B.Tech in Mechanical
Engineering from HBTI, Kanpur, and M.Tech and
PhD from IIT, Delhi.
He served NTPC for about 5 years, National Power Training Institute (Ministry of
Power) for about 8 years, before a short stint in teaching at NIT Jalandhar
which showed that he was a born teacher. Thus, in 2000 he joined Delhi College
of Engineering (now Delhi
Technological University)
where he is now a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Thus,
he has a total of about 25 years’ experience. Prof Gautam has published a
number of research papers in various journals of high repute and presented many
papers in the national/ international conferences. He has been honoured by
“Consistently High Performance Award”, and also by the
“Scroll of honour” on millennium teacher’s day in 2000. Dr
Gautam also has discharged various administrative duties in the institutions he
worked.
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