Power Plant Engineering

Study lessons

1. 1

   Fuels and CombustionFree sample

   How to read proximate and ultimate fuel analyses, compute higher and lower heating values, find the theoretical air-fuel ratio and excess air, and account for the products of combustion and the Orsat flue-gas analysis the MELE tests directly.

   15 min
2. 2

   Steam Power Plants and the Rankine Cycle

   The ideal Rankine cycle and its four processes, how reheat and regeneration raise efficiency, boiler steam generation and boiler efficiency, steam properties, condensers, and feedwater heaters, worked in SI units for the MELE.

   15 min
3. 3

   Internal Combustion Engines

   The Otto, Diesel, and Dual air-standard cycles, compression ratio and air-standard efficiency, indicated and brake power, mean effective pressure, thermal and mechanical efficiency, and specific fuel consumption, worked in SI units for the MELE.

   15 min
4. 4

   Gas Turbine and Combined-Cycle Plants

   The Brayton cycle and its pressure ratio, how regeneration, intercooling, and reheat improve it, the back-work ratio, and how gas and steam plants combine, all worked in SI units for the MELE.

   15 min
5. 5

   Variable Load and Power Plant Economics

   The load curve and load-duration curve, load, capacity, demand, diversity, and plant-use factors, the cost of generated power, and plant depreciation, worked in SI units for the MELE.

   15 min
6. 6

   Hydro, Geothermal, Nuclear, and Renewable Plants

   Hydroelectric power and heads, pumped storage, geothermal plant types, nuclear fission fundamentals, and solar and wind and other non-conventional sources, worked in SI units for the MELE.

   15 min

Section practice test

3 test sets covering the whole Power Plant Engineering section, 90 original questions with explanations. After you finish the lessons above, prove it here. Randomized every run.