Current theory and practice of cycles and design of equipment for the generation of power in central stations and industrial power plants. Design projects. The objective of the course is to introduce the student to the basic elements of electric-generating power plant technology and engineering, with a balance between the analytical and technological aspects of power plant design. Fourteen weeks of two 80-minute lectures per week. - Introduction, review of first and second law of thermodynamics for closed and open systems. - The concept of entropy and reversibility, Carnot cycle. - The Rankine cycle, cycle efficiency, external and internal irreversibilities, ways to improve efficiency. - Superheating, reheat, regeneration, choice of feedwater heaters, co-generation. - Fossil-fuel system generators, water tube boilers, steam drums, superheaters and reheaters, economizers,    fans and stack design, steam generator control. - Fuels and combustion, types of fuels, choice of a fuel, firing equipment for solid, liquid and gas fuels, analysis    of the combustion process and heating values. - Turbo-machinery basics, turbine and pumps, inputs and reaction type turbines, turbine losses and    efficiencies. - Feedwater systems, types of condensers, surface condenser calculations, boiler makeup and treatment. - Cooling towers, wet and dry cooling towers design and analysis. - Gas cycles, the need for gas cycles, ideal Brayton cycle calculations, non-ideal Brayton cycle analysis. - Principles of nuclear energy, boiling water reactor and pressurized water reactors. - Non conventional power generating plants, geothermal, solar and wind energy, energy storage.