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Power Plants Devices

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 410-4211/02
Abbreviation ZAEL
Course title Power Plants Devices
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Radomír Goňo, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Operation of conventional power plants and their machinery and electrical equipment
Operation of nuclear power plants and their machinery and electrical equipment
Equipment and operation of small hydro and wind power plants
Fuel cells, accumulation of power
Transient phenomenon of alternators - stability
Selected alternator protections
Primary, secondary and tertiary control
Control of power system at the power station
Alternator operation in island mode
Trends in electricity generation

Exercise:
Auxiliary hydraulic systems - turbo-feeding pump, pumping device, pump for conveying condensate and condenser.
Auxiliary ventilation systems - air, induced draft and flue fans.
Back-up accumulator systems and back-up generators - accumulators, UPS systems, Diesel-Generators.

Laboratory:
Measurement of non-traditional electricity source efficiency.

Technical excursion:
Power plant Dětmarovice

Projects:
Design of power station.

E-learning

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

Literature

Science and Reactor Fundamentals: Electrical, CNSC Technical Training Group, USA, 2003
Grigsby, L.L. Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution. CRC Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4398-5628-4

Advised literature

Zia A. Yamayee, Juan L. Bála, Jr: Electromechanical energy devices and power systems, USA, 1994