Topic outline

  • BE1M16MEE, AE1M16MEE - Management of Power Production

    Power plants and mining industry management and economics, energy balances and costs calculations of power production - electricity, steam, hot water, coal, liquid fuels, gas, economic loading of power plants, cost analysis.

    Teacher: Ing. Martin Beneš, Ph.D.

    • Lectures

      1.   Specific features of energy production technology and product qualities.
      2.   Management and organisation of energy utilities - production establishments
      3.   Production and economic activity, classification and planning
      4.   Organisation of fuel department
      5.   Consumption and reserve accounting, costs calculation
      6.   Organisation and management of energy production plants
      7.   Management of technological processes
      8.   Consumption characteristics of power plant facilities
      9.   Normalising and planning of fuel and energy consumption
      10.   Energy balance of heat and nuclear power plants
      11.   Analysis of technical economy indexes.
      12.   Costs calculation of electrical energy and heat production
      13.   Dividing of costs of combined production of electrical energy and heat

    • Training courses

      1.   Basic power plants terms
      2.   Combined steam - gas cycle comparison with classical steam power plants
      3.   Calculation and construction of power characteristics in energy production
      4.   Diagram saddle analysis of energy producer - part 1
      5.   Diagram saddle analysis of energy producer - part 2
      6.   Evaluation and account liquidation of coal dump stock
      7.   Test
      8.   Calculation of main and partial technical - economic indexes
      9.   Calculation and construction of combined cycle heat diagram
      10.   Calculation of fuel consumption standards
      11.   Economic load dispatching
      12.   Test
      13.   Analysis of main indexes by direct and indirect method
      14.   Method for costs dividing to electrical energy and heat

      • References

        1.   Pansini A. J., Smalling K. D.: Guide to Electric Power Generation. Farmont Press 2005.
        2.   Kiameh P.: Power Generation Handbook. McGraw-Hill 2003.
        3.   Marsch, W.D.: Economics of Electric Utility Power Generation. Clarendon Press, New York 1980
        4.   Turner, C.: Energy Management Handbook. Lilburn USA, The Fairmont Press 1995.