Description
Wiley India Power Plant Engineering, 2Nd Edition by Harish C Rai and Shipra Rai
The second edition of the book proceeds to cover power plants that rely on renewable energy sources, such as geothermal, solar, wind, ocean and tide and wave energy. It terminates with the presentation of various energy storage systems, most of which are still under development and environmental aspects of electric power generation, both fossil and nuclear. All power production plants, invariably, pollute the atmosphere and the resulting imbalance on ecology has bad effect.
About the Author
Harish C. Rai :- Dr. Harish C. Rai, formerly Controller of Examination, Director Academic Affairs and Director Research Project Monitoring Cell. He was the Advisor for All India Council of Technical Education, New Delhi; Controller of Examinations, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering C.R. State College of Engineering, Murthal (Sonepat) Haryana.
Shipra Rai :- Ms. Shipra Rai is an IT Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services. She completed her Masters in Computer Applications from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha university in 2007. She started working with Dell Services (former Perot System TSI), and later moved to United States for her deputation from Tata Consultancy Services.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOK REVIEW
Introduction
Thermal Power Station
Steam Turbines and Ash Handling
Hydroelectric Plants
Nuclear Power Plants
Diesel Power Plant
Gas Turbine Plant
Combined Working of Power Plant
Major Electrical Equipment in Power Stations
Protective Devices for Power Plants
Economic Loading of Power Stations
Power Plant Economics
Recent Development ((Wind, Geothermal and Tidal)
Solar and MHD Power Generation
Environmental Aspects of Power Generation