"The book has been written for B.Tech / BE students in conformity with the syllabuses of various Indian universities. Special care has been taken to explain the complicated subject of power plant engineering in a language and with an approach so as to make it comprehensible and interesting to the undergraduate students. Thus, the basic concepts have been presented in brief but with full clarity. The orientation of the book has been kept towards the practical aspect of running the power plants while retaining the theoretical aspects at the same time, which is the unique feature of this book. Topics mentioned hereunder are either unique to this book or have received a focussed treatment:·
1) Energy conservation and power tariff system (availability-based tariff).
2.) Latest technology used in sub-critical / supercritical / fluidized bed boilers, losses in turbine, condenser and its tube cleaning and cooling tower.
3.) Gas turbine cycle with its modification, blade cooling, jet propulsion.
4) Nuclear power strategy of India and nuclear power generation.
5) Mini- and micro- hydroelectric generation, governing of hydro turbines and diesel power plants.
6) Non-conventional power generation by solar thermal and photovoltaic, wind, gasification, geothermal, tidal, thermionic, thermoelectric, tidal, and biomass.
7) Latest techniques of combined cycle power generation.
8) Measurement of various parameters and their controls.·
9) Environmental aspects of power plants.
The book is replete with solved examples. Every chapter ends with a summary,
About The Author
Dr Samsher Gautam did his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from HBTI, Kanpur, and M.Tech and PhD from IIT, Delhi. He served NTPC for about 5 years, National Power Training Institute (Ministry of Power) for about 8 years, before a short stint in teaching at NIT Jalandhar which showed that he was a born teacher.
Thus, in 2000 he joined Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University) where he is now a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Thus, he has a total of about 25 years’ experience. Prof Gautam has published a number of research papers in various journals of high repute and presented many papers in the national/ international conferences. He has been honoured by “Consistently High Performance Award”, and also by the “Scroll of honour” on millennium teacher’s day in 2000.
Dr Gautam also has discharged various administrative duties in the institutions he worked.
