Kraftwerkstechnik 1

Inhalte

Introduction to power generation: Introduction, primary energy sources, energy conversion, steam power plant, nuclear power plants, hydropower plants, solar power plants, thermal energy, wind power plants, waste-to-power generation, geothermal power plants, biomass-based power plants, hydrogen and fuel cells, world energy statistics Steam power plants: Introduction, phases of a pure substance, construction of p-v, T-s, and h-s diagrams, water-steam tables, Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle, reheating and regeneration, feedwater heaters, supercritical pressure cycle, deaerator, binary vapour cycle, combined cycle plants, economics of power generation Gas power plants: Introduction, classification of gas turbine plants, gas power cycle, analysis of the Joule-Brayton cycle, air standard cycle assumptions, regeneration, reheating and intercooling, combined gas and steam power cycle Fuels and combustion: Introduction, classification of fuels, solid fuels, analysis of coal, gaseous fuels, liquid fuels, combustion of fuels, composition of fossil fuels, combustion stoichiometry, air-fuel ratio, excess air, mole and mass flow balance, incomplete combustion, combustion energy, adiabatic flame temperature, flame types, coal combustion process Combustion systems: Introduction, combustion systems for solid fuels, fixed bed combustion, bubbling fluidized bed combustion (BFBC), circulating fluidized bed combustion (CFBC), pressurized fluid bed combustion (PFBC), pulverized coal (PC) combustion, combustion systems for gaseous fuels Power plant emissions and their mitigation: Emissions in power plants, environmental impact assessment (EIA), flue gas cleaning methods, particulate matters and their cleaning methods, sulfur compounds (SO x ), methods for SO x reduction, nitrogen oxides (NO x ), methods for NO x reduction, mitigation options of CO 2 emissions, carbon capture technologies (CCT)