Power plant engineering is a textbook designed for the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students. The book is intended to provide a holistic coverage of the fundamentals, design principles and applications of power plants. It explains the concepts using a right blend of theory, illustrations, examples and exercises. salient features: 1) Complete coverage of the AICTE model curriculum for power plant engineering 2) New chapters on need of energy conversion technologies: an overview, cogeneration-trigeneration-polygeneration, and non-conventional and renewable power generation 3) New or expanded sections on topics such as coal handling, nuclear power plants, radioactive waste and their disposal, steam generators, etc. 4) numerous new solved examples and chapter-end exercises, graded based on difficulty levels 5) questions based on GATE and other competitive examinations 6) rich online learning Resources.
Prof. Sudipta De received his PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He was a guest researcher at the Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University, Sweden for more than one year. Currently, he is Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, India. He was nominated as senior scientist by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi to Technical University of Munich, Germany in the fi eld of sustainable energy under international bilateral exchange programme of the Academy. He was the selected faculty “India4EU” programme with specialization in sustainable energy engineering and worked at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He delivered invited lectures in many programmes/Institutes including American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Technical University of Berlin and Munich, Germany; Lund University, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden; University of Bologna, Italy; University of Stavanger, Norway, etc. He received his research funding from different institutes including UGC, DST, Government of India; EU, Swedish Research Council, DFG-Germany; SIU and DIKU-Norway, etc. He was faculty member from the Jadavpur University for the EU funded multi-country ‘Project E-QUAL’ and developed online course modules on ‘Sustainable Energy’. He is/was also member of several technical committees including Power and Energy Systems of The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Canada and international energy initiative “Explore Energy” by the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has published several international journal papers and fi fteen international books/invited chapters. He was an advisory editorial board member of a book series by CRC press on Sustainable Energy Developments. He was the Indian Coordinator of two Indo-Norwegian Collaborations; Co-PI of an EU funded Inno-Indigo project with Finland and Germany and member of another multi-country EU project on quality of higher education. He is also the key resource person of Energy and Environment Committee and member of the Education Committee of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the oldest Chamber of India. He has been elected fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology of India. He is currently in the editorial board of the Springer journal ‘Clean Technology and Environmental Policy’. He is also the recipient of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Teacher Award, a lifetime award for distinguished contribution to higher education and research in Science and Technology.
