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Jun 16, 2024
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ME 4270 - Power Station Engineering
Fuels, principles of combustion, stationary boilers, grates, stokers, furnaces, coal pulverizers, economizers, preheaters, superheaters, stacks, forced and induced draft, boiler-feed pumps, heat balances, and hydro power.
Requisites: ME 4210
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to determine capital and operating costs of a typical power plant.
- Students will be able to determine optimal techniques to control negative environmental aspects associated with the technique used to generate electricity.
- Students will be able to identify and describe methods of energy conversions to electricity.
- Students will be able to maximize efficiency/power or minimize cost with respect to generation of electricity.
- Students will be able to perform cost-benefit analysis on alternative power generation or pollution control capital projects.
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