Power Plant Engineering

Index
A
Acid fog 421
Acid vapours 421
Aeroelectric plant 65
Air pollution 415, 429
Alcohol 46
Alkanes 423
Alpha 327
Alpha decay 322
Anaerobic digestion 54
Anderson cycle 100
Anode 74
Anthracites 44
Artificial winds 65
Atmosphere 415, 419, 435, 441
Atmospheric pollution 415
Atom 313
Atomic energy 26
Atomic mass unit 313
Atomic minerals division 339
Atomic number 314
Atomization 425
Auxiliary systems 283
Axial flow compressor 273
B
Batch type biogas plant 57
Bearings 285
Beta decay 322
Beta particles 316, 327
Bhakra Beas Management Board 13
Binary cycle power plant 93
Binary vapour cycle 17
Bio-gas engine 238
Biofuels 53
Biological processes 34
Biological sciences 34
Biomass 34, 54
Biomass power 54
Biomass pyrolysis 76
Biopower 53
Bioproducts 53
Bleeding of steam 16
Block rate tariff 128
Bluff body method 276
Boiler 18
Bolts 390
Booms 351
Brake horse power 241
Breaker 411
Breeder reactor 328
Bus-bars 410, 412
Bushings 402
C
Camshaft 244
CANDU 333
Capacity factor 313
Carbon monoxide 423
Carburetion 235
Carnot cycle 15
Cased turbines 358
Cathode 74, 78
Cavitation Factor 374
Cell potential 74
Cell voltage 76
Central electricity authority 339
Central Electrochemical Research Institute 103
Central flow condenser 20
Central Power Research Institute 13
Centrifugal compressor 273
Centrifugal force 108
Centrifugal type super chargers 249
Centrifuge 337

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INDEX
463
Chain reactions 45
Channel systems 97
Chemical energy 4
Chemical reactions 34
Chemo electricity 73
Chernobyl 339, 340
Chlorinated diphenyl 409
Chronological load curves 133
Civilization 33
Clamped 396
Closed cycle gas turbine plant 270
CNG 43
Coal 44, 428
Coal particles 427
Cogeneration 280, 281
Coil design 408
Cold reserve 122
Combined cycle 297
Combustion 326, 237, 275, 424
Combustion chamber 269
Combustion of fuels 415
Combustion of the fuel 18
Common rail injection 242
Compressor 268
Condenser 19
Conductors 399, 402
Conical draft tube 376
Connecting rod 235
Conservators 408
Control rods 326
Converter reactor 328
Coolant 326, 327, 333
Cooling 388, 285
Cooling of transformers 403
Cooling system 406
Core-type transformers 398
Cores 395
Cost of fuels 125
Cost of nuclear power plant 328
Crankshaft 246
Critical mass 316
Cross-over coils 398
Crude oil 102
Current 387
Cylinder 235, 237
Cylindrical concentric helix windings 398
D
Damodar Valley Corporation 12
Daughter nucleus 322
Dawn flow condenser 20
Decomposition 44
Deep mining 44
Demand 35
Demand factor 122
Demographic pressure 442
Depreciation 124
Deuterium 313, 314
Diesel 253
Diesel cycle 14
Diesel engine 235, 236, 238, 430
Diesel power plant 131
Direct cooling 393
Direct cycle 327
Disc coils 399
Distributors System 243
Dish/engine system 68
Diversity factor 122
Domestic wastewater pollution 436, 438
Double circuit system 327
Downstream surge tanks 362
Draft tube liners 378
Dry steam power plant 91
Dry sump lubrication system 247
Dual cycle 14
Duel fuel engine 238, 239
Dump power 122
E
Economics 297
Economy 132
Effect of variable load on power plant design 135

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464
POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
Efficiency of a diesel engine plant 254
Efficiency of cells 78
Einstein equation 315
Ejector condenser 23
Elbow type draft tube 377
Electric circuits 394
Electric energy 344
Electric vehicles 311
Electrical energy 34
Electrical generator 235
Electricity 4, 5, 311, 335
electrode current density 76
Electrolysis 76
Electromagnetic 34
Electromagnetic 336
Electron 79
Electron volt 317
Emission 79
Empirical formulas 347
Energy 1, 3, 33, 38, 321, 326, 415, 426
Energy conservation process 37
Energy consumed 129
Energy exploited 46
Energy load curve 133
Energy science 33, 34, 36
Energy sources 38
Energy strategies 49
Energy technologies 35, 36
Energy transformations 33
Engines 431
Enrichment 321
Environmental effects 415
Environmental pollution 429
Equinoxes 68
Evaporation condenser 20
Exhaust 237
Exhaust system 250
Exothermic or endothermic 318
Exploitation 28
Exploration 28, 42
F
F.H.P. 241
Fact 26
Fans 389, 392
Farakka 50
Fault bus protection 413
Filter 242, 247
Fire point 409
Firm power 122
First law of thermodynamics 14
Fission 315, 318, 320, 321, 324, 326, 327, 335,
338, 435
Fixed cost 123
Fixed dome type digester 57
Fixed element 130
Flame zones 422
Flash point 409
Flash steam power plant 92
Flat demand rate 128
Fossil fuels-oil 46
Float systems 97
Floating gas holder type 58
Flux 394, 399
Forced circulation cooling system 252
Forced cooling 406
Forced ventilation 391
Fossil fuel 37, 421
Fossil-superheat hybrid systems 94
Four stroke engines 237
Francis turbine 365, 367
Fuel 18, 242
Fuel cell 103, 104
Fuel pumps 238
Fuel system 286
Full pressure system 246
Fusion 318, 319, 320
G
Gamma 316
Gamma particles 316

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INDEX
465
Gamma radiation 316, 322
Gas engines 235
Gas power cycles 15
Gas turbine 268, 274, 275, 276, 283, 286, 290 ,
293, 297
Gaseous diffusion method 335
Gasoline 46
Gasoline engine 235
Gear 285
Generator 357, 387
Generator cooling 387
Geological resources 45
Geothermal 88
Geothermal-Preheat Hydrid Systems 94
Geysers 89
Glow plug 236
Gravitational potential energy 4
Greenhouse effect 311, 419, 421
H
Half life 317
Hazardous waste management 438
Heat 422
Heat balance 419, 256
Heat balance diagram 254
Heat engine 80
Heat exchanger 274, 278
Heat pumps 311
Heavy hydrogen 314
Heavy water 333
Heliostat field 69
Helium 313
High head plants 354
High lube oil temperature 290
High-level jet condenser 22
High-level wastes 434
Homegrown 86
Hopkinson demand rate 129
Hospital waste disposal 439
Hospital waste pollution 437
Hot dry 88
Hot reserve 123
Hybrid 98
Hybrid geothermal power plant-fossil system 94
Hydel power 7
Hydel-power plants 9
Hydracone or moody draft tube 377
Hydraulic accumulator 284
Hydraulic energy 24
Hydraulic power plant 126
Hydraulic turbines 23
Hydro potentials 50
Hydro-plants 353
Hydrocarbons 42, 43
Hydroelectric generation 308
Hydroelectric power 107
Hydrogen 38, 104
Hydrogen-cooled machine 393
Hydrogen cooling 393
Hydrogen cyanide 424
Hydrogen nucleus 314
Hydrogen pressures 392
Hydrogen storage 105
Hydrograph 348
Hydrological cycle 344
Hydropower 107
I
I.C. engine 14, 235, 248
Ideal cell potentials 75
Ideal fuel cell potentials 75
Igneous rock 87
Ignition 283
Ignition system 284
Impulse turbine 24, 25, 364
Indian atomic energy programme 27
Indicated horse power 240
Indicated mean effective pressure 240
Individual pump injection 243
Industrial air pollution 437
Industrial non-hazardous waste management 438
Industrial production 133

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POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
Industrial wastewater 436
Industrial wastewater pollution 438
Initial cost 123
Injection process 236
Injector 236, 287
Innertkirchen power house 362
Innovative heat exchanger 108
Insulating properties of oil 409
Insulation 400
Integrated duration curve 133
Intercooler 274
Internal combustion engine 78
Investor’s profit 130
Isolators 411
Isotopes 314