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Thermal Power Plants

Teaching:

ECTS:

Level:

Semester:

Prerequisites:

Passed courses: Thermodynamics I and Fluid Mechanics I.

Load:

Lectures	Exercises	Laboratory exercises	Project laboratory	Physical education excercises	Field exercises	Seminar	Design exercises	Practicum
45		0	0	0	0	0	0	15

Course objectives:

Introduction to modern thermal power plants, introduction to technical characteristics of thermal power plants and methods for evaluation of their operational behaviour

Student responsibilities:

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

yes

Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:

Colloquy and exam

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

Compare different types of thermal power plants: steam turbine plants, gas turbine plants, cogeneration plants, combined plants and nuclear plants. Evaluate the behavior of structural materials resistant to high temperatures. Calculate and dimensione elements of thermal power plants. Assess the life span of elements of the thermal power plant. Develop a mathematical model of thermal power plant in Visual Basic or Matlab. Evaluate the cost of electricity production from different thermal power plants. Select a method for distribution of costs of heat and electricity from cogeneration. Critically evaluate technologies of "clean coal".

Lectures

1. Classification of thermal power plants.

2. Steam-turbine power plants and process improvement

3. Gas-turbine power plants and process improvement

4. Cogeneration power plants

5. Combined power plants

6. Nuclear power plants

7. Colloquy

8. Condensers and cooling towers

9. High temperature resisting materials

10. Equipment lifetime calculations

11. Modelling and optimisation of thermal power plants

12. Advanced coal combustion technologies

13. Calculation of power generation costs

14. Assessment methods for splitting production costs on heat and power

15. Exam

Exercises

1. Repetition of Excel and Visual Basic

2. Influence of steam parameters on efficiency of steam-turbine plants

3. Influence of gas parameters on efficiency of steam-turbine plants

4. Steam turbine calculation algorithm

5. Water feed line and water pre-heater calculation algorithm

6. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

7. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

8. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

9. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

10. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

11. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

12. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

13. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

14. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

15. Development of a simulation program algorithm for steam-turbine plant operation

Compulsory literature:

Prelec, Z.; Energetika u procesnoj industriji, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1994.

Bogdan, Ž.; Termoenergetska postrojenja, interna skripta (digitalni udžbenik), 2003.

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