Preface
The subject of power plant engineering, or power plant technology, is being taught to senior graduate mechanical engineering students for several years. A course on this subject was popular and an integral part of engineering curriculum since 1940s. Initially, the material was largely subjective and non-analytical in nature, focusing solely on the system and its associated components. With the turnaround in the energy picture in the 1970s, the quest for analytical treatment among the budding engineers ignited a change in pattern in the description of the subject. Thus, the old course gradually fell out of favour with the trend toward more fundamentalism in engineering education.
The field of power plant engineering is so diverse that ...
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