Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology

Gandipet, Hyderabad-75 ISO 9001:2000 LESSON PLAN Department: ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING Academic year: 2011 -2012 Subject: POWER SYSTEMS I Faculty: B. Suresh Kumar Commencement of Instruction: 11-07-2011 Time Table of the subject: Day Periods TUES 1 & 2nd Friday 3&4th Class: B.E. 3/4 (EEE) Semester: I Subject Code: EE-301 No. of periods: 50 Completion of Instruction:

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Introduction to,power systems and overview of the syllabus for PS-I.

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Unit - I Steam Power Stations : 1. Choice of site, layout, various parts of the station 2. 3.
Boilers, turbines, super heaters, economizers, air preheaters Pulverized fuel, coal handling and ash disposal.

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Hydroelectric power plants : 4. Estimation of power, hydrograph, flow duration curve, mass curve,
storage pondage Hydroelectric plants and layouts. Prime movers for hydroelectric 5. plants.

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Specified speed. Choice for prime mover and number of units

Unit II Nuclear Power Plants : 7. Fissile materials. Working principle of nuclear power plants and
reactor control and shielding.

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8. Non Conventional energy Sources :

Tidal power Wind power wheels.
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Characteristics of wind power. Wind

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3. Solar Energy:
Residential cooling , Solar power plant. Solar concentrators flat plate collector.

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4. Fuel cells 9.
Introduction to hybrid power plants

UNIT III
Construction of Overhead lines :

Overhead line materials- Supports Sag and Tension Calculations 10.

Effect of wind and ice. Erection conditions. Insulators and Overhead Lines : Types of Insulators Potential distribution over a string of suspension 11. insulators Methods of equalizing the potential Testing of insulators. Insulated Cables : Conductors for cables Insulating materials Mechanical protection12. Low voltage cables Grading of cables. 3-phase high voltage cables and super voltage cables

UNIT IV
Inductance and Capacitance of Transmission lines :

13.Inductance and capacitance of overhead line conductors. 14. composite conductors.

Single phase and three phase transmission lines with symmetrical GMR and GMD spacing, Transposition, bundled conductors . effect

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15. earth on capacitance of

UNIT-V
Economics of Power Generation : Load curve, Load demand and characteristics of load..

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17. calculations

Base load operation, types of cost and depreciation and fund Methods of power factor improvement, economics of p.f. Distribution :

18 improvement. Tariffs.

2-wire and 3- wire distributors Ring mains- AC distribution 19.

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calculations. Choice of voltage for AC and DC transmission.

Faculty

Head, Dept. of EEE

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