Course detail

Power Plants and Heating Power Stations

FEKT-NELEAcad. year: 2012/2013

Subject connects up to knowledges acquired by students in previous study level, up to knowledge in from electrical machines, devices and electric drives. It offers knowledges about operation of power stations and heat stations in his mechanical and electrical part. Subject deals with operation of alternators, accessory equipments, electrical schemes of power station, another electrical equipments, operating and safety of operation.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jaroslava Orságová, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Electrical Power Engineering (UEEN)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will gain necessary knowledges about operation, operating and safety of power station production units and regulation of basic quality index of electric energy.

Prerequisites

The subject knowledge on the Bachelor´s degree level is requested.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Spot assessment written and oral examination according to rule FEEC

Course curriculum

Electrical scheme power station
Station power requirements (working state, dimensioning, distribution point
Alternator and transformer (characteristics)
Field system, field suppressor, transmission path
Generator operation (generator starting, synchronizing, asynchronous operation)
Electric protection (break-down, working principle)
Consumer characteristic (boiler, turbo set)
Frequency characteristic (astatic control, static control)
Nuclear power station (fuel cycle, refuelling, auxiliary plant)

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Subject propose complete of knowledges about production electric energy in power stations and heat stations which students acquired in previous level study.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Elliot,T.C.,Chen,K.,Swanekamp,R.C.:Standard Handbook of Powerplant Engineering. McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. ISBN 0-07-019435-1 (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme EECC-MN Master's

    branch MN-EEN , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jaroslava Orságová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Lead-in a course. Increase of thermal power stations heat circuit efficiency
2. Synchronous machine construction, basic parameters, fundamental principles.
3. Synchronous alternator under constant operation conditions - phasor diagram, equivalent circuit, p-q transformation.
4. Synchronous alternator operation at network of infinite power, load angle characteristics, P-Q diagram, synchronization.
5. Excitation systems and voltage control of synchronous alternator.
6. Synchronous alternator transients - tree phase short circuit, abnormal operations.
7. Electrical protections for generators
8. Generator power capacity conductors, arrangement of power station scheme.
9. Power station internal consumption, dimension of internal consumption sources, its design and checking.
10. Drives in stations auxiliaries - using and choice of electric motors, characteristics powered devices.
11. Power station operational characteristic, use of generators in power system.
12. Power stations control under islanding operation condition.
13. Power station operation reliability.

Fundamentals seminar

4 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jaroslava Orságová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Calculation of optimal thermal power station heat circuit - optimize of reheating pressure.
2. Calculation of optimal thermal power station heat circuit - optimize of regeneration.
3. Theory introduction for laboratory exercises.

Exercise in computer lab

4 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jaroslava Orságová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Configuration and setting tool program for machine protection terminal.
2. Calculation and visualization load angle characteristic of synchronous alternator, static stability reserve.
3. Load angle characteristic of synchronous alternator with voltage control system.
4. Simulation of three phase short circuit at generator terminals.

Laboratory exercise

18 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jaroslava Orságová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Measuring of synchronous alternator parameters.
2. Measuring of synchronous alternator load angle.
3. Measuring of three phase short circuit time constants of synchronous alternator.
4. Measuring of operation characteristic of differential protection.
5. Measuring of negative phase sequence protection.
6. Measuring of three phase loose-excitation protection.