Mechanical Engineering
- 1. Why is knowledge of power plant engineering essential for electrical engineers?
- 2. What is distributed power generation?
- 3. What is microgrid?
- 4. What is fuel cell power plant?
- 5. What is hydrogen-based power generation?
- 6. What are smart grids?
- 7. What is carbon capture and storage (CCS)?
- 8. What is integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC)?
- 9. What is ultra-supercritical power plant?
- 10. What is supercritical power plant?
- 11. What is start-up and shutdown procedure of thermal plants?
- 12. What are safety interlocks in power plants?
- 13. What is vibration monitoring?
- 14. What are cooling water treatment methods?
- 15. What is lubrication system in power plants?
- 16. What is boiler maintenance procedure?
- 17. What are maintenance schedules for turbines?
- 18. What is condition monitoring?
- 19. What is predictive maintenance?
- 20. What is preventive maintenance?
- 21. What is power plant automation system?
- 22. What is SCADA in power plants?
- 23. What is blackout and brownout?
- 24. What is load management?
- 25. What is grid interconnection?
- 26. What are main components of transmission system?
- 27. What is transmission efficiency?
- 28. What is a switchyard?
- 29. What are step-up transformers used for?
- 30. What is generated voltage at power plants?
- 31. What is tariff in power systems?
- 32. What is economic load dispatch?
- 33. What is operating cost?
- 34. What is capital cost?0014141.014
- 35. What is plant use factor?
- 36. What is plant capacity factor?
- 37. What is load curve?
- 38. What is depreciation?
- 39. What are fixed and variable costs?
- 40. What is cost of generation?
- 41. What are noise control methods in power stations?
- 42. What are water pollution issues in power plants?
- 43. What is waste heat recovery?
- 44. What is global warming potential?
- 45. What are greenhouse gases?
- 46. What is flue gas desulfurization (FGD)?
- 47. What is electrostatic precipitator?
- 48. What are methods of reducing air pollution?
- 49. What are sources of air pollution in power plants?
- 50. What are environmental impacts of thermal power plants?
- 51. What is energy audit?
- 52. What are energy losses in power plants?
- 53. What are methods to improve power plant efficiency?
- 54. What is specific fuel consumption?
- 55. What is heat rate?
- 56. What is turbine efficiency?
- 57. What is boiler efficiency?
- 58. What is overall plant efficiency?
- 59. What is plant efficiency?
- 60. What is thermal efficiency?
- 61. What factors affect wind power generation?
- 62. What is Betz limit?
- 63. What are vertical-axis wind turbines?
- 64. What are horizontal-axis wind turbines?
- 65. What is working principle of wind turbine?
- 66. What is solar pond?
- 67. What is a solar tower plant?
- 68. What is a parabolic trough?
- 69. What are types of solar collectors?
- 70. What is a solar collector?
- 71. What is biomass energy?
- 72. What is tidal energy?
- 73. What is geothermal energy?
- 74. What are components of a wind turbine?
- 75. What is wind energy?
- 76. What is photovoltaic (PV) system?
- 77. What are solar thermal power plants?
- 78. What is solar energy?
- 79. What are different types of renewable energy sources?
- 80. What is renewable energy?
- 81. What is Kaplan turbine?
- 82. What is Francis turbine?
- 83. What is Pelton wheel?
- 84. What are types of hydraulic turbines?
- 85. What is a spillway?
- 86. What is a surge tank?
- 87. What is a penstock?
- 88. What is a dam?
- 89. What are main components of hydroelectric power plants?
- 90. What is hydroelectric power?
- 91. What are safety systems in nuclear power plants?
- 92. What is radiation shielding?
- 93. What is nuclear waste?
- 94. What are disadvantages of nuclear power?
- 95. What are advantages of nuclear power?
- 96. What is a heavy-water reactor (HWR)?
- 97. What is a gas-cooled reactor?
- 98. What is a fast breeder reactor (FBR)?
- 99. What is a boiling water reactor (BWR)?
- 100. What is a pressurized water reactor (PWR)?