Thermodynamics of the heat cycles, energy balances. Power plants: principles, economy and management, heat cycles with condensing turbine, regeneration, superheating. Nuclear power systems. Gas turbine technology. Combined cycle systems-natural gas, oil. Fluidisation firing. Combined heat and power option, cogeneration using steam extraction. Clean Coal technology adoptions: pressurised fluidised bed boilers, integrated gasification combined cycle, subsystems selection for advanced low emission, new method for high power/boiler systems, Coal gasification, liquefaction.