Electricity Generation

Course title: Electricity Generation

Code: FEIT04Z005

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+2+0+1

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Passed: Mathematics 1 and Physics 1

Course goals/Competences: Acquiring professional knowledge of the processes and ways for electricity generation from the thermal power plants and hydro power plants, knowledge of the basic facilities within the individual types of power plants – their role and efficiency, as well as a ways of connecting power plants to the power system.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Primary and transformed forms of energy. Thermal power plants. Thermodynamic processes presentation in i-s and T-s diagrams. The basic technological scheme and major elements of thermal power plants. Energy processes in thermal power plants. Efficiency coefficients in thermal power plants. Methods for improving the thermal efficiency coefficient. Optimum generation scheduling for thermal power plants. Auxiliary facilities in thermal power plants. Types of hydro power plants and their main components. Energy processes in hydro power plants. Types and selection of hydraulic turbine. Draft tube. Water hammer. Pumped-storage hydro power plants. Electrical schemes of main circuits in power plants. Facilities and equipment layout of thermal power plants and hydro power plants. Schemes of auxiliary power consumption in power plants.

Literature: