410-2303/01 – Power Plants (ELEK)
| Gurantor department | Department of Electrical Power Engineering | Credits | 8 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Radomír Goňo, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Radomír Goňo, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2010/2011 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
This class is focused on power plant basic conceptions, describing of basic and non traditional power plants, applications of new knowledge to practices, orientation during difficult working situations, solving basic and difficult information needed for working, interpreting knowledge and demonstrating engineer thinking for new problems solving.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Other activities
Field trip
Teaching by an expert (lecture or tutorial)
Summary
In this class student will learn to describe the many types of power plants, renewable resources ad new thermal and electricity power resources. There is described electricity equipment, regulation a protections in power plants.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Blume S.W.: Electric Power System Basics, IEEE Press, 2007
Science and Reactor Fundamentals: Electrical, CNSC Technical Training Group, USA, 2003
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Exam - kombined
Test
Laboratories
Project
E-learning
Other requirements
Additional requirements for the student are not.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
Basic concepts of electric power system, thermal power stations, T-s and i-s diagram, thermal schema, power equipment of thermal power plants
Hydroelectric power plants - storage, flow, pumping
Nuclear power plants - fundamental principles, nuclear fission, description of the equipment, heat diagrams
Power plants with gas turbine combined cycle power
Wind energy, small hydropower plants, uUnconventional sources of energy, environmental aspects of power generation
The main diagram, selfconsumption
Alternators, vector diagram, description, parameters, eExcitation systems, voltage regulation, shunting, operating diagram
Transformers and electric motors
Protection and automation in power stations
Primary, secondary, tertiary regulation, coupling power on the electricity grid
Exercise:
Variables and relations of thermodynamics, calculation of the parameters of power plants, test, energy saving potential
Laboratories:
Measurement of radioactivity, measurements on a generator, measurement of photovoltaic cell, measurement of digital protection
Project:
Thermal power station
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction