Course detail

System Approaches for Process and Power Industry

FSI-9SPE Acad. year: 2025/2026 Both semester

The course acquaints students with the approaches, procedures and activities to systematically ensure the best possible design of the process or energy production plant, its subsystem and sub-equipment, both in the case of a new solution (grassroot design) and in the case of reconstruction (retrofit) of the existing design for new purposes.

Language of instruction

Czech

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Zdeněk Jegla, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering

Entry knowledge

Engineering level knowledge of mathematics, physics and thermodynamics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The student applies the acquired knowledge and formulates a system approach to solving the main or partial issues that are the subject of research and solving his doctoral thesis.


Teaching takes place in the form of consultations and discussion on the processed system approach in the agreed terms.

Aims

The course acquaints students with the methodologies of system solutions and optimization of the concept and composition of process and power plants and its most important subsystems and individual equipment. It will provide basic procedures and approaches for decision-making in the case of possible solutions of industrial systems, resp. equipment and for basic orientation in the complexity of technical and economic requirements of production and environmental protection.


Students will be able to apply the knowledge acquired so far from engineering studies to the solution of process and energy plants and their subsystems and to make qualified decisions in the case of alternative solutions with regard to the requirements of production and environmental protection.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme D-ENE-P: Power Engineering, Doctoral, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction to systematic (integrated) design of process – parts and phases of integrated design.

  2. Techniques for the introductory part of the indegration design – optimization of conditions of key equipment.

  3. Principles of data extraction for system approaches

  4. Initial technical-economic balance of the optimal level of process heat and utility utilization system.

  5. Methods of optimal installation (synthesis) of the heat exchange network for grassroot process design.

  6. Methods of optimal adjustments to the heat exchange network for retrofit of the existing process.

  7. Specific approaches for intensified retrofit of heat exchange systems

  8. Introduction to the integration of external energy sources and the initial technical-economic assessment of competing variants.

  9. Methods and techniques for the integration of the selected "hot utility".

  10. Optimization of selected „hot utility“ integrated design for grassroot design and retrofit.