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Power Plants

Course title: Power Plants

Code: 3ФЕИТ04З004

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 processes and ways for electricity generation from 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

Course Syllabus: Types of hydro power plants and their main components. Energy processes in hydro power plants. Principle of operation and classification of hydraulic turbines. Selection of hydraulic turbine. Draft tube. Cavitation. Water hammer. Pumped-storage hydro power plants. Thermal power plants (TPP). Thermodynamic processes in thermal power plants. The basic technological scheme and main components of TPP. Energy processes in thermal power plants. Efficiency coefficients in thermal power plants. Methods for improving the thermal efficiency coefficient. Optimal generation scheduling of thermal power plants realized according to different types of schemes. Auxiliary facilities in thermal power plants. Facilities and equipment layout of thermal power plants and hydro power plants. Electrical schemes of power plants. Schemes of auxiliary power consumption in power plants.

Literature:

Required Literature

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Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Allen J. Wood, Bruce F. Wollenberg, Gerald B. Sheblé

Power Generation, Operation and Control

John Willey & Sons

2013