Power Plant and System Operation

Course title: Power Plant and System Operation

Code: 3ФЕИТ04Л003

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

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

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Acquiring professional knowledge of the methodologies for calculation of various operation modes of hydro power plants and thermal power plants. Solving the problems of optimal operation of hydro power plants and thermal power plants.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Functions and activities that are covered by operational planning, real-time control, analysis of the realized operation. Presentation of electric power consumption through a chronological load diagram and load duration curve. Energy-exploitation characteristics of different types of hydro power plants. Operating modes of hydro power plants in terms of hydrological conditions and reservoir possibilities. Solving of cascade connected hydro power plants. Generator and pump operation mode of reversible hydro power plants. Energy-exploitation characteristics of different types of thermal power plants, gas power plants and cogeneration power plants. Specification of the problem of engaging aggregates. Optimal operation of complex hydro-thermal system. Plans for maintenance of power plants. Provision of capacity reserves in the power system.

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