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Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 1000	yes	IIT Guwahati (IITG)

Lecture 1 : Concepts of system, surrounding and universe, Thermodynamic properties, Laws of Thermodynamics, Entropy and irreversibility
Lecture 2 : Pure Substance and its Phases, Thermodynamic property diagrams, Steam tables and Mollier diagram, Perfect gases

Lecture 3 : Thermodynamic analysis of Vapour power cycle: Introduction to the steam power plant; Performance Indicators, Work ratio, Efficiency ratio; Thermodynamic analysis of steam power plant; Carnot cycle and its limitations; Design of powerplant.
Lecture 4 : Rankine cycle and its modelling, Effects of boiler and condenser pressure, Irreversibility and losses

Lecture 5 : Modified Rankine Cycle: Improvements in Rankine cycle performance– Reheat, Superheat and Regenerative Cycle with examples.
Lecture 6 : Vapour Cycle Exergy Analysis; Characteristics features of vapour power cycles: Working fluid, Supercritical pressure cycle, Binary vapour cycle, Coupled cycle, Cogeneration

Lecture 7 : Introduction to rotodynamic machines, Impulse principle, Velocity diagrams, Blade/diagram efficiency, Blade velocity coefficient, Optimum operating condition, Stage efficiency.
Lecture 8 : Single stage impulse turbine – de Laval turbine, Compounding of turbines: Velocity compounded impulse turbine – Curtis turbine, Pressure compounded impulse turbine – Rateau turbine.
Lecture 9 : Axial flow reaction turbine: Reaction principle, Degree of reaction, Velocity triangles, Fixed blade/nozzle efficiency, Moving blade efficiency, Optimum operating conditions, Stage efficiency.

Lecture 10 : Performance of steam turbines: Axial thrust, Turbine efficiencies, Reheat factor, Super-saturation, Design aspects of steam turbine Blades, Turbine Losses.
Lecture 11 : Steam Nozzles I: Mollier diagram, nozzle shape, Convergent-Divergent nozzles, area change and flow properties, Critical pressure.
Lecture 12 : Steam Nozzles II: Nozzle shape, Convergent-Divergent nozzles, Mass flow rate and choking of nozzles, design pressure ratios for nozzle, Nozzle efficiency, Velocity coefficient, Discharge coefficient, steam nozzles, supersaturation.

Lecture 13 : Steam Generation Systems: Steam Generators; Fossil Fuel Steam Generator; Water-Tube Boilers; Boilers and its classifications; Steam Drum; Water Circulation in Boilers.
Lecture 14 : Water tube boiler I: Heat Absorption in Water-Tube Boilers; Super-heater, Convective super-heater, Radiant super-heater, Pendant type super-heater; Attemperator.
Lecture 15 : Water tube boiler II: Super-Heaters; Re-heaters; Economizers; Air Preheaters, recuperative and regenerative air preheaters; Fans, forced-draft and induced-draft fans; Stack.

Lecture 16 : Fuels and combustion I: Fuels for Steam Generation; Coal and its properties; Proximate and ultimate analysis, Coal firing, Fluidized Bed Combustion; Pulverization, Crushers, Cyclone furnace.
Lecture 17 : Fuels and combustion II: Combustion of Fuels; Thermochemistry, Heat of combustion, Heating value of fuels, Adiabatic combustion temperature, Thermodynamic control volume analysis of steam generator; Combustion Temperatures; Combustion of Coal; Liquid Fuels and Biomass.

Lecture 18 : Steam Condensers: Condensate – Feed water System; Direct Contact Condensers, Spray condensers, Barometric and jet condensers; Surface Condensers; Deaeration, Heat transfer analysis, Design of condensers.
Lecture 19 : Feed Water Heaters: Condensate – Feed water System; Regenerative Cycle; Closed Feed Water Heaters; Open Feed Water Heaters; Boiler Treatment Concepts
Lecture 20 : Cooling Towers: Circulating Water System; classifications of circulating water systems, Once-through system, Closed-loop system, Cooling lakes
Cooling ponds, Dry cooling tower; Wet Cooling Tower, mechanical and natural draught cooling towers, Approach, Range, Psychrometric calculations for wet cooling tower

Lecture 21 : Components of gas turbine system, Brayton cycle, Real gas turbine cycles, Modifications of Brayton cycle: Regeneration, Compressor intercooling, Turbine reheat, Water injection
Lecture 22 : Gas turbines for aircraft propulsion, Thermal circuits and components, Turbojet engine analysis for aircraft propulsion
Lecture 23 : Combined Cycle: Gas turbine – Vapour power cycle, Cogeneration, Integrated gasification combined cycle power plant
Lecture 24 : Energy and exergy analysis of combined gas turbine – vapour power system

Lecture 25 : Elements of a hydro power plant, Hydraulic turbines and its classifications, Impulse and Reaction turbines
Lecture 26 : Hydroelectric power plant, Degree of reaction, Francis turbine, Propeller and Kaplan turbine, Specific speeds for Hydraulic turbine, Scale ratio, Unit speed, Unit power and Unit discharge
Lecture 27 : Wind energy, Principles of wind power, Wind turbine, Concepts of drag and lift forces on wind turbine blades
Lecture 28 : Wind energy potential, Magnus effect, Wind machines, Wind turbine operation

Lecture 29 : Concept of ocean-wave energy, Ocean temperature difference, Open cycle OTEC system (Claude cycle), Closed cycle OTEC system (Anderson cycle)
Lecture 30 : Ocean waves, Energy and power from waves, Wave machines, Tidal energy
Lecture 31: Geothermal energy, Hydrothermal systems, Petro-thermal systems, Hybrid geothermal – fossil systems.

Lecture 32 : Energy storage system: Pumped hydro storage, Compressed air storage system
Lecture 33 : Thermal energy storage, Flywheels energy storage
Lecture 34 : Hydrogen energy storage, Battery storage, Chemical reaction storage, Magnetic storage