Cogeneration Plants

Последна измена: March 31, 2023
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
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