Course detail
Fundamentals of Power Engineering I
FSI-LZ1 Acad. year: 2020/2021 Summer semester
The course makes students acquainted with the application of basic physical laws, above all of hydromechanics and thermomechanics, applicable designing and utilization of power machines and equipment. These laws are used to improve the efficiency, operational quality and reliability of these machines and equipment, as well as the technological and material demands. The course is also aimed at incorporating of these machines and equipment into power systems and their control dependingon loading and other conditions. The economic and environmental problems are also very important parts of the lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will obtain the knowledge energy sources in the technical practice, their ecological, economic and energetic aspects.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of physics and thermodynamics at 2.TU level
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Graded credit requirements: active participation in the exercises, delivery of a project for the given topic in the given term.
Examination: written part consists of questions and examples, oral part in a form discussion about a given topic.
Aims
The aim of the course is to familiare students with the problems of designing the thermal power stations, their important nods, as well as with the economic aspects of the design.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Participation in the exercises is systematically controlled.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B3S-P: Engineering, Bachelor's
branch B-EPP: Power Engineering, Processes and Environment, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Transformation of energy
2. Electricity engineering in the Czech Republic
3. Basic elements of power plants
4. Thermal cycles of power plants
5. Application of gas turbine cycles
6. Combined heat and power production
7. Integrated gas and steam power plants
8. Pressure reduction of steam and gases
9. Steam and vapor flow
10. Indirect heat cycles
11. Basic heat exchange theory in power applications
12. Conduction, convection and radiation heat exchange
13. Environment friendly technology for power plants
Exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Analysis of basic equations and processes of solution
2. Application of the First law of thermodynamic for close systems
3. Application of the First law of thermodynamic for open systems
4. Entropy – basic calculations
5. Practice with steam tables and graphs
6. Gas mixtures – calculations of properties
7. Calculation of isobaric, isochoric and isothermal processes
8. Calculation of adiabatic processes
9. Calculation of thermal gas cycles
10. Calculation of steam cycles
11. Calculation of indirect thermal cycles
12. Calculation of heat transfer
13. Practice in heat exchanger designing