Course detail
Designing of Power Centrals
FSI-LPR Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course continues the theoretical basics of the field obtained in the courses Energy Sources and Transformation, Boilers and Heat Exchangers and Thermal Turbines I. It focuses on planning and designing of power units, heat distribution (cooling) system and energy consumption. It includes optimization calculations of thermal diagrams and partial components of power plant and CHP plant with focus on economic aspects.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Knowledge of Boilers and Heat Exchangers, Energy Sources and Transformation and Thermal Turbines I
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Credit requirements: active participation in seminars, submission of given project according to the set deadline.
Exam requirements: written part in the form of questions and numerical problems, oral part in the form of discussion on 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 acquaint the students with the problems of designing power units, its important hubs and possibilities of optimization.
The course enables graduates to process project documentation in power engineering including optimization thermal calculations.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-SUE-P: Computational Simulations for Sustainable Energy, Master's, compulsory-optional
Programme N-ETI-P: Power and Thermo-fluid Engineering, Master's
specialization ENI: Power Engineering, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Introduction to power engineering design, project progress
2. Electrical power engineering, power generation balance, centralised / decentralised generation, Smart Grids.
3. – 4. Thermodynamic cycle of steam power plants.
5. Construction planning, engine room dispositions, boiler rooms, auxiliary equipment, project documentation.
6. Heat and cold supply, district heating and its indicators.
7. Heat and power demand determination, source sizing
8. Diagrams of energy centres with steam turbine.
9. Diagrams of energy centres with gas turbine, gas-steam cycle power plant, cogeneration units with combustion engines.
10. District heating grids.
11. Conditions of sustainability of district heating systems and possibilities of its ecologisation.
12. Fundamental economic concepts, specifics of energetics industry.
13. Tools for economic evaluation of the project, forms of financial subsidy.
Computer-assisted exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction – installation of OpenModelica, graphical editor, declarative programming, syntax
2. Modelling fundamentals – data types, SI units, component interfaces, conservation laws fundamentals
3. Ordinary differential equations – use, meaning, numerical solution, inclusion of events
4. Ordinary differential equations – non-stationary flow of incompressible media (branched pipe system),
5. Partial differential equations – non-stationary heat transfer through solid wall, thermodynamic property of the media,
6. Partial differential equations – advection, one-dimensional simulation of heat exchanger,
7. Steam power plant diagrams – turbine blocks, pumps,
8. Steam power plant diagrams – boilers, condensers, feed chambers, chillers
9. Steam power plant diagrams – efficiency, regenerators, steam extraction points, carnotization.
10. Steam power plant diagrams – generators, motors, internal power consumption,
11. – 12. Machine learning – optimization of model parameters, system identification
13. Grading