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PRACTICAL BOILER OPERATION ENGINEERING AND POWER PLANT
FOURTH EDITION
By AMIYA RANJAN MALLICK
The fourth edition of the book is richer in contents presenting updated information on the fundamental aspects of various processes related to thermal power plants. The major thrust in the book is given on the hands-on procedure to deal with the normal and emergency situations during plant operation.
Beginning from the fundamentals, the book, explores the vast concepts of boilers, steam turbines and other auxiliary systems. Following a simple text format and easy-to-grasp language, the book explicates various real-life situation-related topics involving operation, commissioning, maintenance, electrical and instrumentation of a power plant.
NEW TO THE FOURTH EDITION
• The text now incorporates a new chapter on Environmental and Safety Aspects of Thermal Power Plants.
• New sections on Softener, Water Treatment of Supercritical Boiler, Wet Mode and Dry Mode Operation of Supercritical Boiler, Electromatic Pressure Relief Valve, Pressure Reducing and Desuperheating (PRDS) System, Orsat Apparatus, and Safety Interlocks and Auto Control Logics in Boiler have been added in related chapters.
• Several sections have been updated to provide the reader with the latest information.
• A new appendix on Important Information on Power Generation has been incorporated into the text.
Dealing with all the latest coverage, the book is written to address the requirements of the undergraduate students of power plant engineering. Besides this, the text would also cater to the needs of those candidates who are preparing for Boiler Operation Engineers (BOE) Examination and the undergraduate/postgraduate students who are pursuing courses in various power training institutes. The book will also be of immense use to the students of postgraduate diploma course in thermal power plant engineering.
KEY FEATURES
• Covers almost all the functional areas of thermal power plants in its systematically arranged topics.
• Incorporates more than 500 self-test questions in chapter-end exercises to test the student’s grasp of the fundamental concepts and BOE Examination preparation.
• Involves numerous well-labelled diagrams throughout the book leading to easy learning.
• Provides several solved numerical problems that generally arise during the functioning of thermal power plants.
CONTENTS
Preface
1. Fundamentals
2. Heat Transfer Methods
3. Fuel and Combustion
4. Properties of Steam
5. Boiler Feedwater Chemistry
6. Introduction to Boiler
7. Fuel Handling System
8. Air Path
9. Feedwater Path
10. Steam Path
11. Flue Gas Path
12. Ash Handling System
13. Operation of Boiler
14. Pipes, Tubes and Fittings
15. Pipe Fittings and Ancillaries
16. Steam Turbine
17. Auxiliary System of Steam Turbine
18. Operation of Steam Turbine
19. Generator
20. Commissioning of Power Plant
21. Maintenance of Power Plant
22. Control and Instrumentation
23. Scope of Energy Conservation in Thermal Power Plants
24. Environmental and Safety Aspects of Thermal Power Plant
Plant Calculations or Numericals
APPENDICES
I: Unit Conversion
II: Various Pipelines used at Thermal Power Plant
III: Syllabus for BOE Examination
IV: Important Information on Power Generation
Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AMIYA RANJAN MALLICK, with more than 27 years of experience, is General Manager (Power Plant), B.K. Birla Group of Industries, Maharashtra. Earlier, he served with a Government of India enterprise and subsequently worked at Tata and Birla Group of Companies. Comprehensive operation and maintenance of power plant is the main functional area of his career. He is actively associated with Boiler Operation Engineers (BOE) Examination, and presently, is a member of BOE Examination Board and Fellow of Institution of Engineers (I) as well.