Electric Power Generation
| Code | 3.6.3246.6 |
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| Semester | 6th |
| Flow | E - Electric Power Systems |
| Category | Obligatory (main flow) |
| Credits | 6 |
| Class Hours - Lab Hours | 4 - 0 |
| Lecturers | Vasileios Nikolaidis, Constantine Vournas |
| Links | Helios |
| Web Platform |
Class 1:
Microsoft Teams
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Description
Elements of Thermodynamics: open and closed thermodynamic systems, first and second law of thermodynamics, entropy, enthalpy, available energy, state diagrams, thermodynamic cycles of Carnot and Rankine. Steam power plants: efficiency improvement, steam overheat, reheat turbine, feedwater preheaters. Environmental effects. Combined heat and power generation: advantages in terms of cost and emissions reduction. Hydro power plants: flow duration curve, hydraulic losses, hydro turbine types, specific speed, small and large power plants. Power generation from internal combustion engines, gas turbines, combined cycle plants.