UN 0807 – Power Plant Thermodynamics

2016 Version

Distance Education:

• Thermodynamic Cycles: Nuclear versus conventional steam cycles, regenerative feedwater heating, moisture separation and reheating, tubine expansion lines, heat balance diagrams, available energy, cycle efficiency and exergy analysis.
• Nuclear Heat Removal: Heat conduction and convection in fuel rods and heat exchanger tubes, heat transfer in boilers and condensers, boiler influence on heat transport system, boiler swelling and shrinking, boiler level control, condenser performance.
• Steam Turbine Operation: Turbine configuration, impulse and reaction blading, blade velocity diagrams, turbine seals and sealing systems, moisture in turbines, part load operation, back pressure effects, thermal effects and turbine governing.

• Module 1 Thermodynamic Cycles
• Module 2 Nuclear Heat Removal
• Module 3 Steam Turbine Operation
• Final Exam

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• Prerequisite reading
  • Thermodynamics
  • Fluids
  • Steam Tables and Charts – the use of Steam Tables and basic theory of their structure.
  • Steam Tables Excerpt
  • Mollier Diagram
• Module 1 Thermodynamic Cycles
  • Table of Contents and Acknowledgement
  • Thermodynamic Theory
  • Power Plant Steam Cycle Theory
  • Exergy Analysis
• Module 2 Nuclear Heat Removal
  • Table of Contents and Acknowledgement
  • Thermal Fluid Theory
  • Nuclear Reactor Heat Removal
  • Nuclear Reactor Steam Generation
  • Steam Turbine Steam System
• Module 3 Steam Turbine Operation
  • Table of Contents and Acknowledgement
  • Steam Turbine Impulse and Reaction Blading
  • Steam Turbine Components and Systems
  • Steam Turbine Operational Aspects
• Question Bank – 2016 version, 
  • Thermodynamic Cycles
    • Question Bank Contents
    • Section T Thermodynamics
  • Nuclear Heat Removal
    • Section R Reactor Heat Generation
    • Section H Reactor Thermal Hydraulics
    • Section W CANDU Operational Phenomena
  • Steam Turbine Operation
    • Section D Turbine Design
    • Section P Turbine Performance
  • Question Bank Answers
• Exam examples
  • Sample 1  May 2, 2005

• Module 1
  • Lecture 0 – Introduction  
  • Lecture 1 – Complex Rankine Cycles 
  • Lecture 2 – Plant Efficiencies 
  • Lecture 3 – Available Energy
  • Lecture 4 – Heat Exchangers 
  • Lecture 5 – Availability
  • Lecture 6 – Energy and Exergy 
• Module 2
  • Lecture 1 – Nuclear Reactor Principle 
  • Lecture 2 – Reactor Flux Profiles
  • Lecture 3 – Heat Conduction Equations 
  • Lecture 4 – Fuel Heat Conduction
  • Lecture 5 – Cladding Conduction 
  • Lecture 6 – Single and Two-Phase Flow 
  • Lecture 7 – 900 MW PWR Example 
  • Lecture 8 – Heat Exchangers
  • Lecture 9 – Steam Generator Level Control
  • Lecture 10 – Steam Generator pressure Control 
  • Lecture 11 – Condensers Characteristics
• Module 3
  • Lecture 0 – Introduction – Momentum Theory 
  • Lecture 1 – Impulse and Reaction – Principles 
  • Lecture 2 – Impulse and Reaction – Stage Design 
  • Lecture 3 – Turbine Design – Casings and Rotors 
  • Lecture 4 – Turbine Design – Blading 
  • Lecture 5 – Turbine Design – Seals 
  • Lecture 6 – Turbine Design – Bearings
  • Lecture 7 – Turbine Operation – Moisture Effects
  • Lecture 8 – Turbine Operation – Part Load Operation 
  • Lecture 9 – Turbine Operation – Back Pressure Effects 
  • Lecture 10 – Turbine Operation – Thermal Effects
  • Appendix – Plant Startup – Reactor and Turbine

• See the Downloads page for engineering software and compilers, etc., including steam tables.
• The following two text books are useful as references for some of the course material to give additional insight into plant technology.  They should be available at your local technical library
  • M.M. El-Wakil "Powerplant Technology" McGraw-Hill 1984, TK1001.E39, ISBN 0-07-019288-X
  • M.M. El-Wakil "Nuclear Heat Transport" American Nuclear Society 1971, 1978, 1993, ISBN 0-89448-014-6