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Electricity Generation and Utilization

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 410-2204/04
Abbreviation VUEE
Course title Electricity Generation and Utilization
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Vladimír Král, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Osnovy VUEE 410-2204/03 od 2025

Lectures:
Fundamental electricity terms, balance of electricity production and consumption and types of power plants.
Fundamentals of nuclear power. The utilisation of water for energy purposes.
Electrical part of power plants.
Renewable energy, safety and environment, fuel cells.
Energy storage. Batteries. Backup.
Smart grids, intelligent power management.
Electrical machinery and appliances. Power distribution systems.
Design of electrical and electronic equipment, safety. Electromagnetic compatibility.
Fundamental terms of thermal engineering. Basic principles of heat transfer.
Industrial heating - fundamentals. Heating fundamentals.
Fundamental terms of lighting technology.
Light sources, luminaires.
Lighting systems.

Exercises:
Fundamental energy terms (systems, load diagram).
Energy balances of condensing power plants.
Energy balances of nuclear power plants.
Energy balances of hydropower plants.
Efficiency of energy sources. Energy self-sufficient systems (PV, VPP, batteries).
Heat transfer calculations. Heat pumps.
Properties and parameters of heat generating appliances. Energy savings.
Fundamentals of lighting technology.
Parameters of light sources and luminaires, calculations of energy consumption of luminaires.
Credit.

Project:
Design of an optimal electricity supplier.

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en.

Literature

Weedy, B. M., Cory, B. J., Jenkins, N., Ekanayake, J. B., Strbac, G. Electric Power Systems, 5th Edition. 2011, Wiley-IEEE Press, ISBN 978-0-470-68268-5
Metaxas, A. C. Foundations of electroheat: a unified approach. Chichester: Wiley, 1996. ISBN 9780471956440 
Lighting Engineering 2002
Digambar M. Tagare. Electricity Power Generation: The Changing Dimensions. 2011, Wiley-IEEE Press, ISBN 978-0-470-60028-3

Advised literature

Syllabi for the distance part of the combined study
Janíček František. Renewable energy sources 1: technologies for a sustainable future. Pezinok:Renesans, 2009, 2nd ed. 174 p. ISBN 9788089402052