Course detail
Construction of Energy Facilities
FSI-FST Acad. year: 2023/2024 Summer semester
The course focuses on power stations (power plants, combined heat and power plants, pure heat plants) in centralised and decentralised configurations. It is followed by lectures on their implementation into the distribution grids, elementary conceptual design process, calculation of heat losses and overall energy consumption.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Knowledge of Thermomechanics, Fundamentals of Power Engineering and Heat engines.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Credit requirements: active participation in the classes. Submission of all assignment in the field of calculations of energy equipment.
Requirements for the exam: written part in the form of questions and examples, oral discussion on a given topic
The presence on lectures is recommended and will be delivered according to the schedule.
Calculation classes: submission of all calculation assignments
Aims
The main aim of this course is to get the students acquainted with the energetics in Czech Republic, with the construction and operation of power supply stations (mainly power plants and combined heat and power plants) and their integration to the power and district heating grids.
The students will have basic understanding of the energetics in the Czech Republic and will be able to conceptually design combined heat and power plants.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-ENE-P: Energy, Bachelor's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Electricity sources in the Czech Republic, market share.
2. – 3. Elementary components of steam power plants.
4. – 5 District heating systems, categorization of sources.
6. Heat losses of buildings.
7. – 8. Heat demand and annual diagram of heat demand.
9. Sizing of combined heat and power sources.
10. – 11. Basic configurations of heat plants.
12. District heating grids, heat accumulation.
13. Construction planning, dispositions, engine room, boiler room, auxiliary equipment.
Computer-assisted exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction – Programming environment OpenModelica, installation
2. OpenModelica – declarative programming, syntax basics, first model
3. Hydraulics – simplified equations of fluid motion in pipe element, the conservation laws
4. Hydraulics – pressure losses, Darcy-Weisbach friction factor, implementation
5. Hydraulics – branched system model, pump characteristics, volume compensation
6. Thermal processes – mathematical model of heat transfer between wall and fluid
7. Thermal processes – mathematical model of heat conduction in solid wall
8. Thermal processes – axial advection of thermal front along pipe element
9. Thermal processes – complex model of pipe element, consumer, supplier
10. District heating systems – mathematical model of small district heating system
11. – 12. District heating systems – evaluation of operational efficiency
13. Grading