POWER STATIONS AND POWER TRANSMISSION
1 1 THE GENESIS 1 2 STATUS OF ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION 1 3 CONCLUDING REMARKS 2 1 BASED ON THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AVAILABLE 2 2 TECHNO-ECONOMIC ISSUES RELATED TO ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION METHODS 2 3 ECOLOGICAL/ ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 2 4 CONCLUDING REMARKS 3 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 A CONVENTIONAL STG PLANT 3 3 FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF A WATER TUBE BOILER 3 4 FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF A STEAM TURBINE 3 5 FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF A TURBO-GENERATOR (TG) 3 6 STATION AUXILIARIES AND SERVICES 3 7 ECOLOGICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES RELATED TO STG PLANTS MAINTENANCE, SERVICING AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES 3 9 OTHER RELEVANT ISSUES COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS (CCPP) DIESEL GENERATING SETS (DG SETS) 4 1 GAS TURBINE DRIVEN THERMAL POWER GENERATING PLANTS (GTG PLANTS) 4 2 COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS (CCPP/IGCCPP) 4 3 DIESEL ENGINE DRIVEN POWER PLANTS 4 4 ECOLOGICAL ISSUES THAT NEEDS ATTENTION 5 1 HYDRO-POWER GENERATING SYSTEM 5 2 HYDRO-POWER 6 1 NUCLEAR POWER GENERATING PLANTS 6 2 THE REACTOR CORE 6 3 USE OF THE HEAT FROM THE REACTOR CORE 6 4 FAST BREEDER REACTORS 6 5 FURTHER RESEARCH IN INDIA 6 6 BI-PRODUCTS OF REACTORS 6 7 USE OF HRSG 6 8 MODERATING/COOLING FLUID 6 9 STEAM PARAMETERS OF HRSG 6 10 THE ELECTRICAL GENERATOR 6 11 THE TURBINE OPERATING PARAMETERS 6 12 THE NUCLEAR TURBINES 6 13 OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 6 14 LIFE-CYCLE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS POWER GENERATION: SOLAR POWER PLANTS WIND TURBINE DRIVEN POWER PLANTS CO-GENERATION POWER PLANTS BIOMASS BASED POWER PLANTS GEO-THERMAL POWER PLANTS TIDAL ENERGY BASED POWER PLANTS FUEL-CELLS FOR ELECTRICAL POWER 7 1 SOLAR POWER PLANTS 7 2 WIND TURBINE DRIVEN POWER GENERATING PLANTS 7 3 CO-GENERATION POWER PLANTS 7 4 BIO-MASS BASED POWER PLANTS (#) 7 5 GEO-THERMAL POWER PLANTS 7 6 TIDAL ENERGY BASED POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS 7 7 FUEL CELLS FOR ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION SUPPLEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE FOR POWER STATION MANAGEMENT 8 1 ENERGY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS 8 2 PARALLEL OPERATIONS OF ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATING PLANTS 8 3 POWER FACTOR (PF) MANAGEMENT 8 4 VOLTAGE REGULATION OF THE GENERATORS 8 5 POWER TARIFF SYSTEMS (#) 8 6 MANAGEMENT/ADMINISTRATIVE: ISSUES IN PESPECT OF POWER PLANTS 8 7 SOME OTHER USEFUL ISSUES FOR POWER PLANT ENGINEERS