OUTCOME 1 - OPERATING AND TESTING TUTORIAL 1 - OPERATING AND TESTING OF PLANT Safe Operating Procedures Testing Procedures Outages and Start Up Procedures Managing Outages TUTORIAL 2 - PLANT PIPEWORK SYMBOLS Fluids and Pipes Colour Codes and Identificatoin Drawing Symbols Valve Symbols Pipe Protection and Safety Features Start Up and Shut Down Procedures CASE STUDY 1 Commissioning a Gas Fired Boiler CASE STUDY 2 Start Up and Shut Down of a Compressor CASE STUDY 3 Start Up and Shut Down of a Pipe System CASE STUDY 4 Small Power Station   OUTCOME 2 - STEADY FLOW ENERGY EQUATION TUTORIAL 3 - PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS and VAPOURS Energy Forms Evaporation Saturated Properties Dry, Superheated and Wet Steam Property Charts Saturation Curve Use of Tables Entropy TUTORIAL 4 - STEADY FLOW ENERGY EQUATION Energy Forms Continuity of Flow Heat Transfer Non Flow and Steady Flow Systems The Steady Flow Energy Equation Steady Flow Systems Pumps, Turbines, Compressors,Evaporators,Condensers TUTORIAL 5 - APPLICATIONS OF THE STEADY FLOW ENERGY EQUATION Steam Power Plant Boilers Economisers Evaporators Superheaters Turbines Condensers Pumps Compressors Throttles   OUTCOME 3 - HEAT TRANSFER TUTORIAL 6 - HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISMS Conduction Convection Thermal Resistance Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient Composite Walls Lagging TUTORIAL 7 - HEAT EXCHANGERS Direct Contact Types Indirect Contact Types Long Pipes Parallel Flow Contra Flow Cross Flow

OUTCOME 4 - POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT TUTORIAL 8 - DIESEL ENGINES Compression ignition Injection and Combustion Turbochargers and Superchargers Four and Two Stroke Cycles Thermal Efficiency Ideal Efficiencies TUTORIAL 9 - ENGINE PERFORMANCE AND TESTING Fuel Power Air Fuel ratio Calorific Value Brake and Shaft Power Indicated Power Mean Effective Pressure Efficiencies Specific Fuel Consumption TUTORIAL 10 - STEAM AND GAS TURBINE PERFORMANCE Impulse and Reaction turbine Principles Steam Turbine Configuration Back Pressure and Pass Out Turbines Steam Turbine Performance Gas Turbine Configurations Ideal Efficiency Free Turbines Intercoolers and Reheaters Exhaust Gas Heat Exchangers Heat Recovery and Waste Heat Boilers Alternative Energy Sources     THREE TUTORIALS AT ADVANCED LEVEL CONDUCTION Conduction Theory Fourier's Law Electrical Analogy Conduction through Tubes and Spheres Compound Layers Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient CONVECTION AND RADIATION Surface heat transfer coefficient. Natural and forced convection. Thermal resistance Overall heat transfer coefficient. Stefan-Boltzmann constant Black bodies Emissivity and Shape Factors HEAT EXCHANGERS Logarithmic mean temperature Parallel, counter and cross flow heat exchangers Boundary layers Dimensional analysis Reynolds, Nusselt, Prandtl, Grashof and Stantoon Numbers. SELF ASSESSMENT SOLUTIONS click here     CONTROL OF PLANT PROCESSES Click here to go to control page