| Course Unit Code | 410-2303/02 | 
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| Number of ECTS Credits Allocated | 8 ECTS credits | 
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| Type of Course Unit * | Optional | 
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| Level of Course Unit * | First Cycle | 
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| Year of Study * |  | 
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| Semester when the Course Unit is delivered | Winter Semester | 
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | 
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| Language of Instruction | English | 
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| Prerequisites and Co-Requisites | Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester | 
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| Name of Lecturer(s) | Personal ID | Name | 
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|  | GON72 | prof. Ing. Radomír Goňo, Ph.D. | 
| Summary | 
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| 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. | 
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit | 
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| 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. | 
| Course Contents | 
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| 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 power station
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| Recommended or Required Reading | 
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| Required Reading: | 
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| Crappe, M.:Electric Power Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA, 2008 Grigsby, L.L. Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution. CRC Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4398-5628-4
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| Doležal a kol.: Jaderné a klasické elektrárny, ČVUT Praha 2011, ISBN 978-80-01-04936-5 Mastný a kol.: Obnovitelné zdroje elektrické energie, ČVUT Praha 2011, ISBN 978-80-01-04937-2
 Tlustý a kol.: Monitorování, řízení a chránění elektrizačních soustav, ČVUT Praha 2011, ISBN 978-80-01-04940-2
 Kolcun, M.; Mešter, M.; Džmura, J.; Pavlík, M. Elektrárne. Technická univerzita v Košiciach, 2017, 202 stran. ISBN 978-80-553-3119-5.
 Blume S.W.: Electric Power System Basics, IEEE Press, 2007
 
 
 
 
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| Recommended Reading: | 
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| Blume S.W.: Electric Power System Basics, IEEE Press, 2007 Science and Reactor Fundamentals: Electrical, CNSC Technical Training Group, USA, 2003
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| Heřman, J.: Příručka silnoproudé elektrotechniky, Praha SNTL, 1984 Tůma J.: Elektroenergetika a životní prostředí, ČVUT Praha 1993
 Dočekal, A.:  Elektrárny II, ČVUT Praha, 1995
 
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | 
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| Lectures, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs, Project work, Other activities, Field trip, Teaching by an expert (lecture or tutorial) | 
| Assesment methods and criteria | 
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| Tasks are not Defined |