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Power Plants and Substation

Course title: Power Plants and Substation

Code: 3ФЕИТ04Л016

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

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

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): This course provides students with skills necessary to succeed as a power engineer. Introduction to the generation, distribution and use of electrical energy in three-phase balanced systems will be coverd. Topics include: generating plants - thermal and hydro power plant, biomass and cogeneration plants; generators; transformers and transmission lines; substation and switchgears.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Review of Thermodynamic Principles. Steam Power Plants. Steam Turbines and Auxiliaries. Turbine Governing Systems. An Overview of Gas Turbines   Gas Turbine Compressors. Gas Turbine Combustors.   Axial-Flow Turbines.Gas Turbine Bearings and Seals   Gas Turbine Instrumentation and Control Systems. Hydro power plant. Fundamentals of Electrical Systems. Introduction to Machinery Principles. Synchronous Generators. Generator Components, Auxiliaries, and Excitation. Transformers. Transformer Components and Maintenance.

Literature:

Required Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

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

Power Generation, Operation and Control

John Willey & Sons

2013

2

John D. McDonald

ElECTRIC POWER SUBSTATIONS ENGINEERING

Grigsby, L.L., Ed., CRC Press

2007

Additional Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

A.J. Pansini, K.D. Smalling

Guide to Electric Power Generation

The Fairmont Press, Inc

2005