ABOUT THE COURSE
Estimates from analyses and audits from various industries suggest that 20 to 50% of industrial energy input is lost as waste heat. This waste heat can be in the form of hot exhaust gases, water/fluid streams (from condensers in power plants) or heat lost from hot equipment and surfaces. As the world strives for higher energy efficiencies, it is imperative that along with better equipment we focus on recovering the energy stored in this “waste heat” and utilize it for useful purposes.
The proposed course introduces us to various methods of Waste Heat Recovery that has been employed by the industry to harness the energy stored in waste heat and use it for generation of additional electric power.
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BHEL
NTPC
CESC
WBSEB
DVC and other power companies
GE
Siemens
Alstom
Prof. Prasanta Kumar Das is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
presently the Dean PG Studies and Research at IIT Kharagpur. His research
interests lie in the broad area of thermal engineering with special emphasis on
two phase flows. He possesses a vast experience in teaching and research. Apart
from teaching many fundamental subjects he offered applied courses like Power Plant Engineering, Thermal System Design, Waste Heat Recovery etc.
He has also conducted tailor-made courses for industries. He contributed
actively in sponsored research and offered consultancy to different Government
and private industries. He is fellows of Indian National Academy of Engineering
and National Academy of Sciences India. 
Prof. Anandaroop Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. His research interests lie in the areas of
electronics cooling, transport in porous media and gas turbine heat transfer.
Prior to joining IIT, Anandaroop spent 12 years in the industry in USA and
India working at Intel, General Motors and General Electric Research
Centers.
Week 1: Introduction to Waste Heat, Importance of Waste Heat Recovery, Review of Thermodynamics – Introduction to First and Second Laws
Week 2: Review of Thermodynamics – Entropy, Entropy Generation, First and Second Law efficiency
Week 3: Power Plant Cycles - Energy Cascading, Rankine Cycle, modification of Rankine cycle, examples
Week 4: Gas Turbine Cycle, Combined Cycle, Combined Gas Turbine-Steam Turbine Power Plant, Heat Recovery Steam Generators
Week 5: Thermodynamic cycles for low temperature application, Cogenerations, Introduction to Heat Exchangers, Analysis – LMTD and ε-NTU method
Week 6: Analysis of Heat Exchanger – continued, Problem solving, Special Heat Exchangers for Waste Heat Recovery, Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Network
Week 7: Heat pipes & Vapor
Chambers, Direct conversion technologies – Thermoelectric Generators.
Week 8: Direct
conversion technologies – Thermoelectric Generators (contd.), Thermoionic
conversion, Thermo-PV, MHD
Week 9: Heat Pump; Heat Recovery from Incinerators, Energy
Storage – Introduction.
Week 10: Energy Storage Techniques –
Pumped hydro, Compressed Air, Flywheel, Superconducting Magnetic storage
Week 11: Energy
Storage Techniques – Thermal storage (Sensible & Latent), Battery, Chemical
Energy Storage, Fuel cells.
Week 12: Energy Economics
No standard reference books are available. Reading materials (papers,
webpages, scanned notes/slides) will be provide as and when necessary
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