Paper format. National Examinations, May 2013 — 07-Mec-B3 Energy Conversion and Power Generation. Three hours, closed book. Section A (calculative) carries Questions 1 to 4 and Section B (descriptive) carries Questions 5 and 6; a candidate answers three from Section A and one from Section B, so four questions constitute a complete paper of 60 marks and every question is worth 15 marks. Reference data for particular questions are supplied on pages 9 to 12 of the paper (Matla Power Station data sheet, the natural-draught cooling-tower evaporative-loss chart, the combined-cycle system diagram and the Belledune heat balance diagram), reference formulae and constants on pages 13 to 16, and steam tables from Granet and Bluestein are provided. All six questions are solved here.
Reference texts.
- I. Granet and M. Bluestein, Thermodynamics and Heat Power, 6th ed. — the steam tables supplied with this paper; Tables A.1 and A.2 (saturation) and A.3 (superheat).
- Y. A. Çengel and M. A. Boles, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 9th ed. — Chapter 9 (gas power cycles, Brayton), Chapter 10 (vapour power cycles, reheat and regeneration) and §10-9 (combined gas-vapour cycles).
- M. M. El-Wakil, Powerplant Technology — Chapters 2 to 4 (steam cycles and feedwater heating), Chapter 6 (cooling towers and circulating water) and Chapters 9 to 11 (nuclear steam supply systems).
- J. R. Lamarsh and A. J. Baratta, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, 4th ed. — Chapter 3 (fission and the energy released), Chapter 4 (nuclear reactors and reactor physics) and Chapter 8 (heat removal from nuclear reactors).
- V. Ganapathy, Steam Generators and Waste Heat Boilers, and A. K. Rayaprolu, Boilers for Power and Process — pulverised-fuel preparation, mill and burner air balances, heat-recovery steam generators.
- Canadian context for Question 6: Natural Resources Canada and the Canada Energy Regulator generation statistics, the federal Impact Assessment Act (2019), the coal-fired generation CO2 regulations SOR/2018-263, the Nuclear Safety and Control Act (CNSC) and the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act (NWMO adaptive phased management).
