Course detail

Design and Economy

FSI-LPEAcad. year: 2015/2016

The course is focused on calculating, developing and designing thermal power stations and their parts(steam and gas turbines, steam boilers) central heating systems, fuel systems and nuclear power stations.
Economy:leasing, net present value,cash flow,internal rate of return.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jan Fiedler, Dr.

Department

Energy Institute (EÚ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course provides students with knowledge and skills necessary to work out the documentation in power engineering including optimal thermal and economic calculations.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of energy sources, steam turbines and boilers

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded credit requirements: active participation in the exercises and delivery of a project for the given topic in a given term. Examination: written part consists of questions and examples, oral part in a form of discussion about a given topic.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to familiarise students with problems of designing thermal power stations, their important nods, as well as with economic aspects of the design.

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

Participation in the exercises is systematically controlled

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Boyce: Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook,Gulf Publishing,1995
Horlock, J.H.:Advanced Gas Turbine Cycles. Prgamon Publishing, London 2003
Kadrnožka: Tepelné elektrárny a teplárny,SNTL Praha 1987
Kousal: Spalovací turbiny,SNTL Praha 1980
Škopek: Parní turbina, ZČU Plzeň 2007

Recommended reading

Fiedler:Parní turbiny,skripta VUT,2004
Krbek,Polesný,Fiedler: Strojní zařízení tepelných centrál, skripta VUT 1999
Leyzerovich:Large Power Steam Turbines, Pennwell Books,USA 2003

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N2301-2 Master's

    branch M-ENI , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jan Fiedler, Dr.

Syllabus

1.introduction to the design in the power energy
2.basic terms
3.economy in power engineering
4.tructure of incomes and costs,economic indicators
5.working cycles
6.gas turbine power station, combined, parameters
7.heating plant, saving of the heat using cogeneration, types
8.heat supply
9.proposal of the construction
10.differences in the design of the nuclear power stations

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Marek Baláš, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.introduction, preparation of individual assignments
2.-6.design according to the assignment
7.check of the results - presentation of partial results
8.-12.economic design of the project
13. credit