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This text provides hands-on coverage of dealing with normal and emergency situations during plant operation. Beginning with the fundamentals, the book explores the concepts of boilers, steam turbines and other auxiliary systems. The text explores various real-life situation-related topics involving operation, commissioning, maintenance, electrical, and instrumentation of a power plant. The text now incorporates a new chapter on environmental and safety aspects of thermal power plants, and new sections on softener, water treatment of supercritical boiler, wet mode and dry mode operation of supercritical boiler, electromatic pressure relief valve, the pressure reducing and desuperheating (PRDS) system, orsat apparatus, and safety interlocks and auto control logics in a boiler. A new appendix on important information on power generation has been incorporated into the text. The book covers all the functional areas of thermal power plants; incorporates more than 500 self-test questions in chapter-end exercises; incorporates well-labelled diagrams throughout; provides solved numerical problems that may arise during the functioning of thermal power plants.

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Amiya Ranjan Mallick, with more than 27 years of experience, is General Manager (Power Plant), B.K. Birla Group of Industries, Maharashtra, India. Earlier, he served with a Government of India enterprise and subsequently worked at Tata and Birla Group of Companies. Comprehensive operation and maintenance of power plant is the main functional area of his career. He is actively associated with Boiler Operation Engineers (BOE) Examination, and presently, is a member of BOE Examination Board and Fellow of Institution of Engineers (I) as well.

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