Power Plant Engineering

Part load efficiency 384
Peak load 133
Pelton turbine 364
Percentage method 124
Performance of the diesel engine 240
Petro-geothermal 88
Petrol 46
Petroleum products 47
PHWRs 27
Physics 33
Pilot oil 239
Piston 235
Piston cylinder type 249
Plant capacity factor 121, 123
Plant factor 121
Plant operating factor 121
Plant use factor 123
Polarization 77
Pollution 436
Pollution from thermal power plants 437
Positron 314
Post-flame zone 422
Potential 24
Potential energy 5, 344, 352
Power tower system 68
power 1, 5, 23, 337, 365, 269, 381
Power demand 50
Power engineers training society 13
Power generation 8, 52, 82, 297
Power houses 356

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468
POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
Power industry 49
Power plant 1, 2, 131, 331, 418
Power transformers 418
Precipitation 346
Pressure gauge 246
Pressure ratio 238
Pressure-regulating valve 246
Pressurized-water reactor 433
Primary energies 48
Prime control 287, 288
Prime mover 18, 19, 23, 363
Prime power 122
Process of depletion 46
Propeller turbine 366
Propeller type 61
Protective control 288
Pumped storage plant 108
Pumping plant 355
Pyrolysis 54
R
Radiant energy 4
Radiations 67, 435
Radioactive 315
Radioactive decay 315
Radioactivity 318, 321, 322, 435
Radioisotopes 322
Rain fall 346
Ramagundam 50
Rana Pratap Sagar (Rajasthan) Nuclear Station 329
Rankine cycle 14
Rate of interest 124
Rates 127
Reaction turbine 24, 25
Reactor core 327
Reactor plant 329
Reactor vessel 329
Reciprocating oil engines 235
Reflector 326
Reformation of hydrocarbons 76
Regeneration 16, 277
Regenerator type heat exchanger 274
Regenerators 274
Reheat cycle 16, 279
Reheat-regenerative cycle 17
Renewable 3
Renewable energy 52
Renewable energy technology 311
Reserve capacity 121
Reservoir 92, 108, 349, 350,
Retention 57
Reversible cell 74
Road transport 436
Road vehicles 416
Rockefeller’s standard oil trust 40
Roots blowers 249
Rotational speed 382
Rotor 388, 389
Rotor winding 388
Run-of-river plant 355
Run-off 347
Rural Electrification Corporation 12
S
Safeguard 334
Safety system 338
Sandwich coils 398
Sandwich windings 399
Science 25, 33
Scientific research 26
Second law of thermodynamics 14
Sectional or continuous disc coils 399
Semi-pressure system 245
Shell type transformers 396, 399
Short wave radiation 68
Shut down type control 289
Single bus-bar system 410
Single circuit system 327
Single stage continuous type biogas plant 56
Singrauli 50
Sinking fund method 124
Slip rings 389

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INDEX
469
Sludging 409
Small end bearings 246
Smoke 417
Solar collector 71
Solar energy 52
Solar farm power plant 69
Solar photovoltaics 72
Solar radiation 68
Solar thermal applications 72
Solar ventilation system 71
Solid fuel 426
Solid Waste Management 438
Soot 425
Soot, dust 432
Space colling 72
Space heating 71
Spare 411
Spare bus-bar 411
Spark plug 236
Special alloy steel 394
Specific speed 368, 383
Spent fuel 434
Spinning reserve 123
Splash system 245, 246
Standardization 310
Stator 390, 392
Stator windings 393
Steam 18
Steam generator 18
Steam power plant 14, 135
Steam turbines 294
Step meter rate 128
Stirling engine 282
Storage plants 353
Straight line meter rate 128
Straight line method 124
Stresses 388
Structural material 326
Sulphur 418
Sun 38, 68
Sun energy 442
Supercharging 248, 249
Supervision 127
Surface condenser 20, 21
Swirl flow method 276
Synthetic oil 409
T
Tabbed tank 405
Tanks 408
Tapping switches 394
Tarapur Nuclear Power Station 329
Tariff 127
Taxes 127
Technology 25, 35
Temperature gradient 388
Terminals 394
Thermal conductivity 392
Thermal diffusion 336
Thermal efficiency 131, 277, 278
Thermal energy 4, 33
Thermal generation 51
Thermal neutrons 324
Thermal NO 424
Thermal pollution 441
Thermal power 337
Thermal power plants 429
Thermal power stations 430
Thermal reactor 45
Thermionic converter 78
Thermionic generator 80
Thermodynamics 14, 33
Thermonuclear 319
Third law of thermodynamics 14
Three Mile Island 339
Three Mile Island accident 312
Tidal power 441
Total energy 321
Transformer 394, 403
Transformer cores 395
Transformer tanks 408
Transformers 400

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POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
Transformers 363, 395, 397, 406
Turbine 23, 268, 342
Turbine bearings 435
Turbine overspeed 289
Turbine overtemperature 289
Turbo type super chargers 249
Turbo alternators 392
Two state continuous type biogas plant 56
Two stroke cycle engines 247
Two stroke engines 237
Types of tariffs 127
U
Underground power house 359
Unit method 125
Unit power 379
Unit quantity 380
Unit speed 379
Uranium 9
Uranium enrichment 335
Uramium fission 316
Utility factor 121
V
Valence electron 314
Valence shell 314
Values 26
Valves 251
Vane blower 249
Vaporization 425
Vaporization process 427
Vapour power cycle 15
Variable load 135
Vegetation 347
Vehicular pollution 437
Viscosity 408
Voltage-current density characteristics 77
Volumetric efficiency 250
W
Waste water 338, 430
Water coolers 391
Water gas reaction 342
Water pollution 436
Water reactor 433
Water turbine 23, 24
Water vapour 421
Water cooling 393
Waveform 388
Wet sump lubrication 246
Wind turbine 59, 61
Windings 390
Windmill 59, 62
Working fluid 98
World energy production 37
World oil reserves 38
Wrapped conductor 400
Z
Zeroth law of thermodynamics 14
Zirconium 337

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