Modul Power Plant Engineering

The successful candidate will be able to:

• Understand the tension arising between meeting ecological and economical demands while providing secured supply
• Apply thermodynamics to processes in the power plant engineering sector
• Know and compare different methods for power generation (fossil fuelled and renewable)
• Understand the structure and principle of operation of energy conversion technologies and analyse these using thermodynamics
• Understand multiple options to improve the energy conversion processes and to evaluate the realistic improvements using diagrams
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of combined energy conversion technologies

Content:

• Conversion of primary energy to electrical energy
• Direct energy conversion
• Operation principles of simple heat- and incineration power plants
• Operation principles of improved heat- and incineration power plants
• Combined power generation technologies
• Combined heat- and power plants