1. Course Title | Cogeneration Plants | |||||||
2. Code | 4ФЕИТ04З007 | |||||||
3. Study program | ЕЕПМ | |||||||
4. Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) | Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies | |||||||
5. Degree (first, second, third cycle) | First cycle | |||||||
6. Academic year/semester | IV/7 | 7. Number of ECTS credits | 6 | |||||
8. Lecturer | D-r Dimitar Dimitrov | |||||||
9. Course Prerequisites | Passed: Power Plants Taken course: Renewable Energy Sources for Electricity Generation |
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10. Course Goals (acquired competencies): Obtaining knowledge for technologies used in cogeneration plants and getting competences for making techo-economic analyses for cogeneration systems. Identification for possible application of cogeneration plants. | ||||||||
11. Course Syllabus: Types of cogeneration plants. Basic parameters of cogeneration plants. Energy and exergy efficiency Components of cogeneration plants. Cogeneration with steam power plants. Cogeneration with gas turbines. Heat steam recovery generator. Cogeneration with internal combustion motors. Innovative cogeneration methods. Fuel cells. Combine cycle power plants. Application of cogeneration in industrial and commercial objects, Trigeneration. Schematic diagrams for grid connection. Electric generators in cogeneration plants. Protection of cogeneration plants. Satellite and icelanding operation. Operation regimes of cogeneration systems. Economic value of electricity and heat. Techno-economic analyses. | ||||||||
12. Learning methods: Lectures with presentations, interactive lectures, numerical exercises, study visits of cogeneration plants. | ||||||||
13. Total number of course hours | 3 + 2 + 0 + 0 | |||||||
14. Distribution of course hours | 180 | |||||||
15. Forms of teaching | 15.1. Lectures-theoretical teaching | 45 | ||||||
15.2. Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork | 30 | |||||||
16. Other course activities | 16.1. Projects, seminar papers | 30 | ||||||
16.2. Individual tasks | 30 | |||||||
16.3. Homework and self-learning | 45 | |||||||
17. Grading | 17.1. Exams | 0 | ||||||
17.2. Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) | 0 | |||||||
17.3. Activity and participation | 10 | |||||||
17.4. Final exam | 90 | |||||||
18. Grading criteria (points) | up to 50 points | 5 (five) (F) | ||||||
from 51to 60 points | 6 (six) (E) | |||||||
from 61to 70 points | 7 (seven) (D) | |||||||
from 71to 80 points | 8 (eight) (C) | |||||||
from 81to 90 points | 9 (nine) (B) | |||||||
from 91to 100 points | 10 (ten) (A) | |||||||
19. Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam | Continual attendance of lectures, doing homeworks and student projects. | |||||||
20. Forms of assessment | During the semester, two partial written 120 minutes exams or a written 120 minutes exam are forseen. For students who have passed the partial exams or the exam, a final oral exam (duration 60 minutes) may be conducted. The points from the partial exams or the exam and the final oral exam are included into the final grade. | |||||||
21. Language | Macedonian and English | |||||||
22. Method of monitoring of teaching quality | Internal evaluation and surveys. | |||||||
23. Literature | ||||||||
23.1. Required Literature | ||||||||
No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ||||
1 | Dimitar Dimtirov | Written materials | FEIT | 2023 | ||||
2 | Yunus Cengel, Michael Boles | Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 8th Edition | Mc Graw Hill | 2015 | ||||
3 | COGEN Europe | The European Educational Tool on Cogeneration, Second Edition | COGEN Europe | 2001 | ||||
23.2. Additional Literature | ||||||||
No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ||||
1 | B. K. Hodge | Alternative Energy Systems and Applications | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | 2013 | ||||
2 | Jan Kiciński and Żywica, Grzegorz | Steam Microturbines in Distributed Cogeneration | Springer | 2016 | ||||
3 | Michael J. Moran, Howard N. Shapiro, et al. | Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics 8th Edition | Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics 8th Edition | 2014 |