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Steam Generators I

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 361-0537/05
Abbreviation PG1
Course title Steam Generators I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ladislav Vilimec

Subject syllabus

1. Transforming primary energy fuels into electricity and heat, transformation efficiency, Rankine cycle, Brayton cycle, combined cycle
2. Stoichiometry, calculation of efficiency, production heat calculation, fuel quantity
3. Steam generator and its function and integration in power source, power plant, heating plant, heating plant.
4. Steam generators, function principle and their main parts
5. Division of steam generators according to output medium and design of evaporator, natural circulation, flow-through boilers, supercritical parameters
6. Division of steam generators according to the used form of primary energy of fossil and alternative fuels, HRSG and HWB and generators for ZEVO
7. Separation of steam generators according to the method of fuel combustion, grate, fluid, powder
8. Division of steam generators by arrangement and number of strokes
9. Separation of steam generators by pressure in combustion chamber, vacuum, overpressure
10. Equipment for fuel preparation, types of mills and mills
11. Steam superheater, shifting, co-current, countercurrent, its types
12. Steam reheater, the reason for its formation, shifting, current, countercurrent, its types
13. Water heater, reasons of origin, evaporative, non-evaporative, co-current, countercurrent, its types. Air heater, reasons of origin, co-current, countercurrent, recuperative, regenerative
14. Primary and secondary environmental measures for boilers

Literature

KITTO, B.J., STULTZ, C.S. Steam: Its generation and use. 41st edition. USA, Ohio: The Babcock Wlcox Company, 2005. ISBN 0-9634570-1-2 .

Advised literature

HEWITT, G.F. Heat exchanger. Design Handbook. Begel House, Connecticut USA, 2008. ISBN 978-1-56700-255-3 .
SHOCK, W,H. Steam Boilers: Their Design, Construction, and Management, LEGARE STREET PR, 2022. ISBN 1018555323 .