italian version

Aims :

The course sets out to make able to investigate the operation and the design of plants for power generation and the energy conversion. More details are given on steam power plants, gas turbine, cogeneration and combined power plants. Particular relevance is attributed to the basic economic analysis.

Topics :

The history of energy conversion, fuels and renewable energies.
Steam power plants: thermodynamic cycles and study of the components. Performance improvement and power control. Design and test.
Steam generators. Historic evolution and study of the combustion. Gas and steam fluxes. Design of the components: economizer, evaporator, super-heater and steam separator. Calculation and design criteria.
Gas turbine Plants. Basic analysis, efficiency and specific work. Characteristics of the components. Plants and machines technological evolution: state of art and future prospects. Pollutant emission and his control.
Combined cycles and cogeneration. Heat recovery boilers. Thermodynamic characteristics of the combined cycles and thermal-electric cogeneration plants. Basics of economic evaluations.

Textbooks :

DISPENSE DEL CORSO CONTENENTI LE SLIDES PROIETTATE DURANTE LA LEZIONE
MACCHINE Renato Della Volpe Liguori Editore
GLI IMPIANTI CONVERTITORI D’ENERGIA Carmelo Caputo Masson
TURBINE A GAS E CICLI COMBINATI Giovanni Lozza Progetto Leonardo
SISTEMI ENERGETICI G. Negri di Montenegro Pitagora Editrice

Exam :

Written and Oral.

Tutorial Session :

One our after lectures or by e-mail.