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UN0702 - Power Plant Thermodynamics
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Announcements

  • First lecture for the academic year 2006/2007: Saturday, Mar 31, 2007, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
  • Lecture location: Durham College Skills Training Centre in classroom 1-2.
  • The Skills Training Centre is located at 1610 Champlain Avenue, Whitby, Ontario. See Campus Maps.
  • The 2005 version of this course is maintained for archival and reference purposes.
  • The course information below will be updated as new information become available. If you want to read ahead, you will likely find the equivalent material in the 2005 version of the course. Note that the 2007 version of this course is somewhat different than the 2005 version in topic arrangement and coverage emphasis.
  • See important announcement below on the exam format.
  • Be sure to read about the Academic Integrity Policy.
  • Some of the lecture material in this course comes from a first course (second year students) in thermodynamics at UNB. Thus UN0702 builds from the basics with regard to the theory. However it is expected that the students have the skill to be able to use steam tables and to be familiar with T-s diagrams so as to be able to visualise graphically the changing properties of steam and water. Hence you should be familiar with the thermodynamic properties of water and steam. You can brush up on this by finding a good text book and studying that section in advance. I use "Thermodynamics and Heat Power" by Granet and Bluestein. In this book Chapter 5 Properties of Liquids and Gases (Water and Steam) is the key section as well as the steam tables at the back. "Thermodynamics and Engineering Approach" by Cengel and Boles is also good. Many other books will do provided they show you how to use steam tables and show thermodynamic processes on T-s diagrams. Avoid any thermodynamics text book that is full of differential equations - avoid it like the plague - they are written by professors for professors and are incomprehensible to engineers in industry. I essence then do some prior study along these lines and be prepared to put in that extra time during the course. Students not previously versed in thermodynamics have succeeded in this course, but they had to put in extra hours beyond what others were doing in order to keep up....

Course Description:

Theoretical and practical analysis of the following with particular reference to CANDU plants.

  • STEAM POWER CYCLES: Thermodynamic Processes; Thermodynamic Laws; Superheating and Reheating; Regenerative Feedwater Heating; Moisture Separation and Reheating; Turbine Expansion Lines
  • EXERGY AND HEAT TRANSFER: Available Energy Transfer; Exergy Flow Diagrams; Thermo-economic Analysis; Heat Conduction and Convection; Boiling and Condensing; Two Phase Flow
  • NUCLEAR HEAT REMOVAL: Reactor Heat Generation; Heat Transfer in Boilers and Condensers; Boiler Influence on Heat Transport System; Boiler Swelling and Shrinking; Boiler Level Control; Boiler Operation

Prerequisite: Registration in the UNENE Joint M. Eng. Program
Lecturer: Robin Chaplin, contact information

Course Outline (pdf 820kb)

Course Schedule (tentative)

  • All lecture times: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Module 1 STEAM POWER CYCLES: Mar 31 - April 1, 2007 (Saturday and Sunday)
  • Module 2 EXERGY AND HEAT TRANSFER: April 14-15, 2007 (Saturday and Sunday)
  • Module 3 NUCLEAR HEAT REMOVAL: April 28-29, 2007 (Saturday and Sunday)
  • Final Exam: May 11, 2007 (Friday evening 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm), Durham College, Skills Training Centre, Rm –1-2.
  • See important announcement below on the exam format.

Course Text

  • [These course notes are password protected. You will need to register in the course and contact the webmaster to receive the password via the link at the bottom of this page.]
  • Course material will be added as it becomes available.
  • Prerequisite reading
  • MODULE 1 STEAM POWER CYCLES
  • MODULE 2 EXERGY AND HEAT TRANSFER
  • MODULE 3 NUCLEAR HEAT REMOVAL - to come
    • Article 3.10.2.9 Nuclear Reactor Heat Removal: text (pdf 2.45Mb), figures (pdf 431kb)
    • Article 3.10.2.10 Nuclear Reactor Steam Generation: text (pdf 1.89Mb), figures (pdf 441kb)
  • Question Bank
  • Exam examples

Lecture Slides

Reference Information

  • See the Downloads page for engineering software and compilers, etc., including steam tables.
  • The following two text books are useful as references for some of the course material to give additional insight into plant technology.  They should be available at your local technical library
    • M.M. El-Wakil "Powerplant Technology" McGraw-Hill 1984, TK1001.E39, ISBN 0-07-019288-X
    • M.M. El-Wakil "Nuclear Heat Transport" American Nuclear Society 1971, 1978, 1993, ISBN 0-89448-014-6
  • ...

FINAL EXAMINATION FORMAT

 The final examination will be CLOSED BOOK, that is, no notes nor references nor electronically stored data are permitted.  Limited function (trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic) calculators are permitted and required.  No calculators with alpha-numeric keyboards, graphical displays nor programmable capabilities are allowed.
 
Steam tables, property tables, thermal fluids charts as well as data sheets and flow diagrams as required will be provided for reference.  Basic mathematical equations and general constants will also be provided.
 
The examination will consist of questions taken from the Question Bank and slightly modified if appropriate for clarification and consistency.  There will be a descriptive and a calculative section.  Students must do two out of three questions from Section A Descriptive Section and at least two out of four questions from Section B Calculative Section.  If a third question in Section B is attempted the best two will be marked.  In the event of a borderline grade the unmarked question will be reviewed.
 
Descriptive answers should be complete in all respects and diagrams must be fully labelled.  Written answers should occupy about a page per 5 marks.  Calculative questions must be logically presented.  In the event of missing or unknown data a realistic value should be assumed with justification and the calculation continued.  When using steam tables, approximations are permitted instead of time consuming interpolations provided the accuracy of the final answer is not compromised beyond reasonable limits.
 
R.A. Chaplin

 

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