• Nag; Power Plant Engineering;  McGrawHill, 2014
• El-Wakil; Powerplant Technology; McGrawHill, 1995
• Dolezal; Energetische Verfahrenstechnik; Teubner Stuttgart, 1983
• VDI-Wärmeatlas

1. Introduction and Overview
1.1. General
1.2. Working Fluid Water
1.3. Working Fluid Air
1.4. Combined Cycles
1.5. Possibilities / Major Components
1.6. Sites
1.7. Brief Economy
1.8. Cost Discussion
1.9. Optimization
1.10. Energy Consumption in Germany

2. Thermodynamic Review

3. Power Boilers
3.1 Furnaces
3.1.1 Fuels
3.1.1.1 Solid Fuels
3.1.1.2 Liquid Fuels
3.1.1.3 Gaseous Fuels
3.1.2 Combustion Calculation
3.1.3 Combustion Systems
3.1.3.1 Grate Firing
3.1.3.2 Fluidized Bed Combustion
3.1.3.3 Dust Firing
3.1.3.4 Combustion of Liquid and Gaseous Fuels
3.1.4 Operation Problems
3.2 Power Boilers
3.2.1 Historical Look back
3.2.2 Heat transport
3.2.3 Basics of Twophase Flows
3.2.3.1 Heattransfer with Twophase Flows
3.2.3.2 Boiling Crises
3.2.3.3 Pressure Loss with Twophase Flows
3.2.4 Boiler Systems and Types
3.2.4.1 Shell-Type Power Boilers (Fluegas Tube SG)
3.2.4.2 Water Tube Power Boilers
3.2.4.3 Heat Recovery Power Boilerss
3.2.5 Design of a Power Boiler
3.2.5.1 Balance Power Plant (Heat Process Diagram)
3.2.5.2 Total Balance Steam Generator
3.2.5.3 Arrangement and Balance of Heating Areas
3.2.5.4 Materials for Boilers
3.2.5.5 Design of Heating Areas
3.2.6 Aspects of Construction
3.2.7 Starting, Shut-Down and Control of Boilers
3.3 Nuclear Boilers

4. Steamturbines
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Operating processes
4.3 main equation of the theory of turbines
4.4 working processes
4.4.1 constant pressure (=simple impulse) turbine
4.4.2 overpressure / reaction turbine
4.4.3 radial turbines
4.4.4. comparison between simple impulse and reaction turbines
4.4.5 specific numbers of the machine
4.4.6 performance / power and consumption
4.5. Fundamentals of turbine control
4.6. Miscellaneous
4.6.1 Casing
4.6.2 Rotor types
4.6.3 Blade roots
4.6.4 Cover Bands and Tie Wire
4.6.5 Bearing

• Dolezal; Energetische Verfahrenstechnik; Teubner Stuttgart, 1983
• Thomas, Thermische Kraftanlagen, Springer Berlin, 1984
• El-Wakil; Powerplant Technology; McGrawHill, 1995
• VDI-Wärmeatlas, Springer, Berlin, 2006
• Nag; Power Plant Engineering; McGrawHill, 2014
• Strauss, Kraftwerkstechnik, SpringerVieweg, Berlin, 2016