This course includes fundamental and technological knowledge.
The program is divided into the following sections:
INTRODUCTION:
- General considerations and types of power plant. Pollutants emissions.
SECTION I (Brayton and Rankine cycles in power plants)
- Brayton and Rankine cycles for power generation, improved cycles.
-Brayton, inter-cooling, reheating, regeneration, ciclos complex and closed cycles.
-Rankine, reheating, regeneration (steam extractions and drains). Complex cycles.
- Turbomachinery: working fundamentals and characteristic diagrams.
-Kinematics and pressure variation. Velocity triangle.
-Gas and steam turbines architecture.
-Dimentional analysis and operating diagram for incompressible and compressible flow.
-Cavitation.
- Boiler, combustion chamber and nuclear reactor fundamentals.
-Cast iron boilers.
-Steel boilers, constitutive elements. Accidents
-Combustion chamber and flame stabilization.
- Other component fundamentals
-Deaerator and feed water.
-Condensers
-Cooling towers
SECTION II
- Environmental issues
- Plantas nucleares
-Constitutive elements
-Types of plants
-Nuclear fuel cycles
-Accidents
- Combined cycle
-Fundamentals, design and operative parameters.
-State of the art. HRSG, pressure levels and reheating.
-Clean coal technologies. GICC.
- Cogeneration (CHP) and polygeneration with reciprocating engines and
-Fundamentals, design and operative parameters.
-With reciprocating engines
-With gas turbines
- Working fundamentals and maintenance in power plants
-Load and speed control
-Desundary control loops.