Course detail
Fundamentals of Power Engineering
FSI-LZ1 Acad. year: 2022/2023 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
5
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
Enrollment of student participation in seminars in the attendance list, replacement of missed classes by individual agreement with the teacher.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-ENE-P: Energy, Bachelor's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Energy sources and transformation technologies.
2. Solid fossil fuels.
3. Liquid and gaseous fuels
4. Exhaust gas appliances
5. Electric power industry in the Czech Republic: Diagram of a load of energy systems, energy balance.
6. Steam heat cycles I.
7. Steam heat cycles II.
8. Steam cycles of nuclear power plants, ORC cycle.
9. Combustion turbines.
10. District heating, cogeneration.
Exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Equation of state of an ideal gas, calorimetric equation
2. Isobaric, isochoric and isothermal process, 1. law of thermodynamics
3. Adiabatic and polytropic process
4. Gas mixtures, 2. law of thermodynamics
5. Ideal gas cycles, Carnot cycle
6. Heat pump circulation, cycles of internal combustion engines
7. Cycles of combustion turbines
8. Working with T-s diagram
9. Rankin-Clausian cycle I
10. Rankin-Clausian cycle II
11. Increasing the efficiency of the Rankin-Clausian cycle
12. Heat transfer
13. Credit test