468 POWER PLANT ENGINEERING
Power industry 49
Power plant 1, 2, 131, 331, 418
Power transformers 418
Precipitation 346
Pressure gauge 246
Pressure ratio 238
Pressure-regulating valve 246
Pressurized-water reactor 433
Primary energies 48
Prime control 287, 288
Prime mover 18, 19, 23, 363
Prime power 122
Process of depletion 46
Propeller turbine 366
Propeller type 61
Protective control 288
Pumped storage plant 108
Pumping plant 355
Pyrolysis 54
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Radiant energy 4
Radiations 67, 435
Radioactive 315
Radioactive decay 315
Radioactivity 318, 321, 322, 435
Radioisotopes 322
Rain fall 346
Ramagundam 50
Rana Pratap Sagar (Rajasthan) Nuclear Station 329
Rankine cycle 14
Rate of interest 124
Rates 127
Reaction turbine 24, 25
Reactor core 327
Reactor plant 329
Reactor vessel 329
Reciprocating oil engines 235
Reflector 326
Reformation of hydrocarbons 76
Regeneration 16, 277
Regenerator type heat exchanger 274
Regenerators 274
Reheat cycle 16, 279
Reheat-regenerative cycle 17
Renewable 3
Renewable energy 52
Renewable energy technology 311
Reserve capacity 121
Reservoir 92, 108, 349, 350,
Retention 57
Reversible cell 74
Road transport 436
Road vehicles 416
Rockefeller’s standard oil trust 40
Roots blowers 249
Rotational speed 382
Rotor 388, 389
Rotor winding 388
Run-of-river plant 355
Run-off 347
Rural Electrification Corporation 12S
Safeguard 334
Safety system 338
Sandwich coils 398
Sandwich windings 399
Science 25, 33
Scientific research 26
Second law of thermodynamics 14
Sectional or continuous disc coils 399
Semi-pressure system 245
Shell type transformers 396, 399
Short wave radiation 68
Shut down type control 289
Single bus-bar system 410
Single circuit system 327
Single stage continuous type biogas plant 56
Singrauli 50
Sinking fund method 124
Slip rings 389