Designing Power Systems

Prerequisite:

Power Production (16VEN)

The course is a substitute for:

Designing of Power Systems (X16PES)

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Economics, Management and Humanities

Synopsis:

This subject goes into economy of investment activities in power engineering, especially into general scheme of energy construction workable variant selection, their investment and operating cost, valuational criteria and ecological acceptability conditions. It gives you information about conception of basic energy production units with emphasis on centralized heat supply systems further.

Requirements:

Power Generation

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Designing as information processing

2. Project Management Cycle

3. Technological decision-making model

4. Fossil fuel power plant conceptual solution

5. Centralized heat-supply systems

6. Determination of heat consumption in given area

7. Heating plant equipment dimensioning

8. Basic thermal diagrams of heating plant

9. Heat plumbing and its control

10. Nuclear power plant conceptual solution

11. Nuclear power-station location

12. Power-stations operation and environmental impacts

13. Investment costs and its diversification

14. Computer support and suggestion of variants

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Designing energetic systems specifications

2. Centralized heat supply system basic thermal diagram

3. Cogeneration effectiveness

4. Heating plant conceptual solution and location

5. Suggestion of solution variants

6. Selection from workable variants

7. Heating plant equipment dimensioning

8. Heating plant operational characteristics

9. Heat plumbing dimensioning

10. Comparative investment costs

11. Allocation of operating costs

12. Allocation of operating costs

13. Project economical evaluation

14. Solution, results and discussion

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Turner, C.: Energy Management Handbook. The Fairmont Press, Lilburn USA 1995

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Ekonomika a řízení elektrotechniky a energetiky-inženýrský blok (compulsory elective course)
• Ekonomika a řízení elektrotechniky a energetiky-inženýrský blok (compulsory elective course)