COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1: Vapour Power Cycles: Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle, reheat cycle
Week 2: Vapour Power Cycles: Regenerative cycle, steam cycles for nuclear power plant, back-pressure and
extraction turbines and cogeneration
Week 3: Vapour Power Cycles: Low temperature power cycles, ideal working fluid and binary/multi-fluid cycles
Week 4: Steam Generator: Subcritical and supercritical boilers, fluidized bed boilers, fire-tube and watertube
boilers, mountings and accessories
Week 5: Steam Turbine: Impulse and reaction stage, degree of reaction, velocity triangle,
Week 6: Steam Turbine: efficiencies Velocity and pressure compounding,
Week 7: Steam Turbine: Reheat factor and nozzles
Week 8: Cooling Tower: Hygrometry and psychrometric chart