Thermal & Conventional Power

Boilers, turbines and heat recovery. Boilers and heat exchangers, Rankine-cycle steam plants, gas turbines, combined cycles and cogeneration.

• Boilers — Boilers generate the steam that heats and powers process plants. Learn fire-tube vs water-tube boilers, steam properties and duty, efficiency (direct and indirect methods), fuel consumption, blowdown and water treatment, economisers, and boiler safety.
• Heat Exchangers — Heat exchangers transfer heat between two fluids. Learn types (double-pipe, shell-and-tube, plate, finned), parallel vs counter-flow, overall U, LMTD and effectiveness–NTU methods, fouling and sizing.
• Thermal Power Plants: Rankine Cycle, Boilers & Heat Rate — How most of the world's electricity is still made. Learn the Rankine cycle and its components (boiler, turbine, condenser, pump), T–s diagrams and steam tables, efficiency improvements (superheat, reheat, regeneration, supercritical/ultra-supercritical), heat rate and coal consumption, cooling systems, auxiliaries, emissions control (ESP, FGD, SCR), flexible operation and plant performance indices — with Python solving an ideal Rankine cycle.
• Gas Turbines, Combined Cycles & Cogeneration — The most efficient fossil power plants and how to use waste heat. Learn gas-turbine (Brayton) power plants, the heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG) and combined-cycle efficiency, pinch point and approach temperatures, open-cycle peakers, combined heat and power (CHP/cogeneration) and trigeneration, primary energy savings, waste-heat recovery in industry, and hydrogen-ready turbines — with Python for combined-cycle and CHP efficiencies.