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Cogeneration Plants

Course title: Cogeneration Plants

Code: 3ФЕИТ04З008

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

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

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Obtaining knowledge for technologies used in cogeneration plants and getting competences for making techo-economic analyses for cogeneration systems. Identification for possible application of cogeneration plants.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Types of cogeneration plants. Basic parameters of cogeneration plants. Energy and exergy efficiency Components of cogeneration plants. Cogeneration with steam power plants. Cogeneration with gas turbines. Heat steam recovery generator. Cogeneration with internal combustion motors. Innovative cogeneration methods. Fuel cells. Combine cycle power plants. Application of cogeneration in industrial and commercial objects, Trigeneration. Schematic diagrams for grid connection. Electric generators in cogeneration plants. Protection of cogeneration plants. Satellite and icelanding operation. Operation regimes of cogeneration systems. Economic value of electricity and heat. Techno-economic analyses.

Literature:

Required Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Dimitar Dimitrov

Cogeneraton Plants, internal handouts

UKIM-FEIT

2017

2

Yunus Cengel, Michael Boles

Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 8th Edition

Mc Graw Hill

2015

3

 

The European Educational Tool on Cogeneration, Second Edition

COGEN Europe

2001

Additional Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

B. K. Hodge

Alternative Energy Systems and Applications

Ars LAMINA

2013

2

Michael J. Moran, Howard N. Shapiro, et al.

Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics 8th Edition

Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics 8th Edition

2014

3

Jan Kiciński and Żywica, Grzegorz

Steam Microturbines in Distributed Cogeneration

Springer

2016