VKR, VNB & AGK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING:: GUDIVADA

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Power Plant Engineering

Assignment Questions
Unit 1
Part A
1. What is the function of cooling tower?
2. What are the methods used for handling of coal?
3. What are the uses of ash?
4. What is the function of a coal crusher?
5. What are the advantages of artificial draught over natural draught?
6. What is energy? What are its different forms?
7. Give a brief note on cyclone furnace.
8. Give a brief note on grate stokers.
9. Give a brief note on retort stokers.
Part B
1. How does a cooling tower operate? Mention its merits and demerits.
2. Explain the various draught systems with a neat sketch
3. Enumerate and explain the steps involved in coal handling.
4. Explain the general layout of ash handling and dust collection systems.
5. Explain the working of spreader stoker with neat sketch.
6. What are the different types of cooling towers ?Explain with a neat sketch
7. Explain the working principle of cyclone furnace with neat diagram.
8. Classify the pulverised fuel burners and list the requirements of them.
9. Describe the Inplant coal handling with a neat diagram
10. Explain the working of single retort stoker with neat sketch
11. Classify and explain the working of mechanical dust collectors.
12. Make neat sketch and explain the working of
(i) Chain stoker (ii) Spreader stoker
13. Explain about pulse - jet dust collector.
14. Describe the various types of grates used with hand fired furnaces.
15. Why ash and dust handling is more difficult than coal handling?
16. What are renewable and non - renewable energy sources? Discuss with reference to
the Indian scenario.
17. What are the different ash handling systems? And explain mechanical handling
system.
18. Explain with the neat diagram the working of different types of wet type mechanical
dust collectors.
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Unit 2
Part A
1. What are the different types of engines used in diesel power plants?
2. What are the components of diesel power plants?
3. What are the components of gas turbine power plants?
4. Draw the layout of diesel power plant?
5. What is the reason of using lean A:F ratios in gas turbines and what is the range of it?
6. Distinguish between open cycle and closed cycle turbine plants.
7. What is supercharging? Give its importance.
8. Give the classification of gas turbine plants.
9. Compare diesel and gas turbine plants.
Part B
1. List the essential components of gas turbine power plant and explain them briefly
2. Explain how engines are selected for diesel power plants
3. Give the classification of gas turbine power plant?
4. Supercharging-explain with advantages and disadvantages
5. Draw a neat line diagram of a diesel power plant showing all the systems and explain
the working
6. Mention the advantages and disadvantages of diesel power plant over a gas turbine
power plant?
7. Draw and explain the layout of modern diesel power plant showing the following
systems.
(i) Fuel supply system
(ii) Lubrication system
8. Discuss the advantages of combined cycle power generation. Explain the working of
GT-ST combined cycle plant.
9. Why the starting of diesel plant is more difficult? Explain the method used for starting
diesel engine?
10. Explain the method used for super charging the engine?
11. Describe the various methods used for starting diesel engine. Describe the correct
sequence of steps for starting and stopping procedure.
12. What are the essential components of a simple open cycle gas turbine plant? How inter
cooling and regeneration help in improving thermal efficiency of the plant?
13. Calculate the efficiency and specific work output of a simple gas turbine plant
operating on Brayton cycle. The maximum and minimum temperatures are 1000 k and
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288 k respectively. The pressure ratio is 6. The isentropic efficiencies of compressor

and turbine are 85 and 90 percent respectively. If the unit consumed 2 tons of oil per
hour of C.V. 46500 K.J per kg, determine the power generated. The mechanical
efficiency is 90% and generator efficiency is 85%.
14. What is meant by auto - ignition? Why is excess air always used in a C.I engine?
15. Discuss the wet sump lubrication system pertaining to a diesel engine.
16. What methods are used to improve the efficiency of gas turbine power plant?
17. What are the various factors to be considered while selecting the site for diesel engine
power plant?
18. Give the layout of gas turbine power plant.
Unit 3
Part A
1. List out the drainage area characteristics?
2. Explain about hydrograph.
3. Classify different types of dams.
4. Define Spill way? Classify different types of spill ways.
5. What is meant by unit hydrograph.
6. Differentiate between dams and spillways used in hydro electric power plants.
7. Give the classification of hydro power plants.
8. What is a hydrograph? Mention its importance.
9. What is Hydrological cycle? Explain its significance.
Part B
1. What is a spillway? Why are spillways required? What are the different types of
spillways?
2. Explain with a neat sketch a pumped storage hydro plant, state its advantages
3. State the functions of a dam. How are dams classified? Briefly describe a few
important types of dams. How would you select the site and the type of the dam?
4. How hydro electric power plants are classified?
5. The turn off data of a river at a particular site is tabulated below.
Month Mean discharge Month Mean discharge
(Millions of cu.m.) (Millions of cu.m.)
January 30 July 80
February 25 August 100
March 20 September 110
April 0 October 65
May 10 November 45
June 50 December 30
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(i) Draw the hydrograph and find the mean flow.

(ii) Draw the flow duration curve.
(iii)Find the power developed if the head available is 90m and the overall efficiency of
generation is 86 percent. Assume each month of 30 days.
6. What you mean by storage and pondage. Why are they required?
7. What do you understand by pumped storage plant?
8. Explain the factors affecting the run-off in hydrological cycle.
9. Explain the working of pump storage with neat sketch
10. What is Hydrological cycle? Explain its significance in locating the site and design of
hydro electric power plants.
11. What are the various factors to be considered in selecting the site for a hydro electric
power plant and discuss briefly about primary and secondary investigations.
12. How to make use of the tides for power generation based on their capacities? Explain
the principle of operation.
13. Give the classification and briefly discuss the typical layouts of hydro projects.
14. Explain the characteristics of hydrographs with respect to the power generation along
with the suitable curves.
15. Discuss different plant auxiliaries used for hydro projects.
16. Discuss the classification of dams and spill ways.
17. Explain the site selection criterion of hydro power plant.