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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Polytechnic University College |
| Grao en enxeñaría en Tecnoloxías Industriais |
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| Power Stations |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Power Stations | Code | 730G04052 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| The following topics develop the contents indicated in the Verification Memory (Memoria de Verificación), which are: |
Types of power plants Parts of power plants Design of power plants |
| 1. Exergy analysis | Introduction to exergy. Closed system energy balance. Open system exergy balance. Flow exergy. Exergetic efficiency and thermoeconomics. |
| 2. Gas, vapor and combined power cycles. Exergetic and energetic analysis | Rankine cycle. Brayton cycle. Combined cycles. |
| 3. Psychrometrics | Fundamentals of psychrometrics. Psychrometric diagrams. Psychrometric charts. Analysis of air-conditioning processes. Cooling towers. |
| 4. Power plants | Introduction. Types. Classification. |
| 5. Spanish electrical system | Introduction. Participation of the energy sources in the electric power. |
| 6. Thermal power plants | General description. Air-gasses system. Water-vapor system. Refrigeration system. Combustion system. |
| 7. Steam generators | Classification. Fundamentals of steam generation. Parts of a steam generation. Auxiliary equipment. Heat transfer. Water treatment. |
| 8. Gas treatment | Pollutants. Particulate reduction. SOx reduction. NOx reduction. |
| 9. Condensers and heaters | Condensation. Types of condensers. Types of heaters. Deaeration. Heat transfer. |
| 10. Gas and steam turbines | Steam turbines. Gas turbines. |
| 11. Cogeneration | Principle of operation. Configurations. Trigeneration. Cogeneration in Spain. |
| 12. Combustion | Combustion process. Ideal and real combustion. Enthalpy of formation, reaction, combustion and heating values. 1st law of Thermodynamics applied to reacting systems. Adiabatic flame temperature. Entropy in reacting systems. 2nd law of Thermodynamics applied to reacting systems. Equilibrium. |
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