Syllabus - Power Plant Instrumentation (EI 702 (C))

METHODS OF POWER GENERATION

Power generation - types - importance of instrumentations in power generation - basic building block for all types of power generation plants - details of boiler processes - P&I diagram of boiler - cogeneration.

PARAMETERS OF POWER PLANT AND ITS MEASUREMENT

Electrical and non electrical parameter measurement -correction factor for steam temp and temp-steam pressure - drum level measurement -radiations detector -smoke density measurement -dust monitor - speed vibration, shell temperature monitoring & control - steam pressure control lubricant temp control of turbines.

ANALYZERS IN POWER PLANTS

Flue gas oxygen analyzer - analysis of impurities in feed water and steam - dissolved oxygen analyzer - chromatography - PH Meter - Fuel analyzer –pollution monitoring instruments.

CONTROL LOOPS IN BOILER

Combustion Control-air/fuel ratio control - furnace draft control - drum level control - main steam and reheat steam temp control - super heater control - attemperator - deaerator control - distributed control system in power plants - interlocks in boiler operation.

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Nuclear power plant instrumentation - P&I diagram of different types of nuclear power plant - radiations detection instruments - process sensors for nuclear power plants - Spectrum Analyzer - nuclear reactor control systems and allied instrumentation.