| Date | 31st January, 2025 |
| Venue | Tata Thermal Power, Trombay |
| Resource Person | Mr. N. Bhatt (Training head TPSDI, Tata Power, Trombay, Ex. Maintenance and Training Head Tata Thermal Power) |
| Faculty Coordinator | Mr. Atul V. Jade |
| Department | Mechanical Engineering |
| Event Objective | To reduce gap between curriculum and industry for the subject Turbo Machinery and to know the market strategy of sale of electricity. |
| Event Outcome | Students got knowledge of the actual installation and working of thermal power plant as well as knowledge about sales, maintenance and marketing. Also got familiar with other sectors and requirements in the plant apart from the working they learnt in the theory classes. |
Thermal Power Plants runs on Rankine cycle. But to run the plant mare the knowledge of power cycle is not sufficient. There is need of control system, fuel and charge handling system, safety, sales etc which is not covered under the single subject.
Since the speaker is very knowledgeable and experienced in the field of power generation, he cleared all doubts asked by students very nicely. He explained about the existing cycles in power generation, its installation and other requirements, sales strategies according to demand and maintenance and care of the unit.
The overall session was very informative which satisfied students need in the field.
