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Hydro and Wind Power Plants

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 361-0540/04
Abbreviation VVE
Course title Hydro and Wind Power Plants
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Zbyszek Szeliga, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Hydroelectric power. Energy of water in nature, possibilities of utilization of hydropower potential. Rough, technically exploitable potential, drain curve.
2. Basic types of hydroelectric power plants, place in power system.
3. Water turbines - theoretical foundations, energy transformation.
4. Pelton turbine - energy transformation, construction.
5. Francis, Deriaz, Kaplan turbine - energy transformation, construction.
6. Cavitation.
7. Water turbines - characteristics, regulation of water turbines, theory of similarity.
8. Wind energy. Use of landscape wind potential.
9. Basic principles of wind energy transformation, efficiency.
10. Wind turbine theory, resistance and aerodynamic theory.
11. Wind turbines, types, constructions, applications.
12. Basic characteristics of wind power plants, regulation.
13. Wind turbine aerodynamic design.
14. Wind and Hydroelectric Power Plants vs. elektroenergetická soustava.

Literature

Gash, R.; Twele, J.: Wind Power Plants. Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation. Solarpraxis AG, 2002. ISBN 3-934595-23-5
Warnick.C.C: Hydropower Engineering. 1984. ISBN-13: 978-0134484983 

Advised literature

HAU, E. Wind Turbine. Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics. Springer, Berlin 2005.