Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
ING-IND/33 (ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL,COMPUTER AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Course
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Period
1st semester (30/09/2019 - 20/01/2020)
Lesson hours
45 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of hydraulics, thermodynamics, building science, engines and machines, electrotechnics.
Learning outcomes
The course deals with the main features of energy conversion systems, referring particularly to electricity generation. Plant engineering of various kinds of modern and most efficient power plants is investigated. Main cycles, different ways of operation, maintenance problems, technical and economical estimations are described. Numerous exercises, based on tests already carried out, are offered to students.
Course contents
General principles: energy sources, supply transformation and consumption of all major energy sources, electricity generation, efficiency, generation prices.
Electrical network, frequency and voltage regulation, power balance and stability.
Hydroelectric power plants: hydropower, pumped-storage hydroelectricity, run-of-the-river hydroelectricity, configuration of a hydroelectric power plant (reservoir, dam, intake, penstock, turbine, alternator).
Renewable energy sources: wind, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, biomass-powered generation.
Micro-grids and energy storage systems. Generator interface with the network using static power converters.
Thermoelectric power plants: thermodynamic cycles, fuels, steam generators, turbines, electric generators, condensers, pumps, heaters, auxiliary systems, load control, monitoring and alarm system, chemical problems, emissions.
Gas turbine combined-cycles: industrial gas turbines for electrical generation, combined-cycle power plants, heat recovery steam generators, configuration of CCGT plants, IGCC power plants.
Nuclear power plants: nuclear reactions, reactor types, economics of nuclear power, plans for new reactors.
Other generation systems: fuel cells, combined heat and power plants, energy from waves, geothermal generation, nuclear fusion.
Teaching methods
Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 40
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 10
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0
Reccomended or required readings
C. Belli - P. Chizzolini. Conversione dell'energia (Manual comprising university lectures and exercises updated annually by the lecturer and available on-line at the website of the University of Pavia, Department of Industrial Engineering.
Assessment methods
Two written tests will be taken: students may take an oral if they wish to increase the final vote. Students who want to take the oral only must solve the exercises reported at the website http://www.unipv.it/ingegneria/copisteria_virtuale/belli/esercizi_casa.zip and send them to the lecturer beforehand.
Further information
Two written tests will be taken: students may take an oral if they wish to increase the final vote. Students who want to take the oral only must solve the exercises reported at the website http://www.unipv.it/ingegneria/copisteria_virtuale/belli/esercizi_casa.zip and send them to the lecturer beforehand.
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