Thermal power cycles and heat pump systems
Summary
This course aims at studying thermal power cycles, heat pumping technologies, and equipment.
Content
- Thermal power cycles : Rankine, ORC, Brayton, supercritical, combined cycles, Cheng, Kalina, specific power plant applications (natural gas, coal and biomass incl. IGCC, waste incineration).
- Heat pumping technologies: main families of technologies for heat pumping (compression, chemical, magnetic, thermoelectric), working fluids incl. mixtures and global environmental impact factors.
- Equipment: boilers, heat exchangers, cooling towers, dynamic and positive displacement compression and expansion machines.
Keywords
Power plant, heat pump, compressor, turbine.
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
- Thermodynamics I
- Thermodynamics II
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Explain the principles and limitations of the main energy conversion technologies, E7
- Assess / Evaluate and design volumetric compressors and turbines, E13
- Identify the challenges related to energy: resources, energy services, economic and environmental impacts, E9
- Assess / Evaluate fluid flows in energy conversion systems, compute pressure drops and heat losses and fluid - structure interactions, E10
- Analyze the energy and exergy efficiency of industrial energy systems, E21
- Explain and calculate the main emission sources of energy conversion processes, E23
- Explain the principles and limitations of the main energy conversion technologies, E7
- Assess / Evaluate and design volumetric compressors and turbines, E13
- Identify the challenges related to energy: resources, energy services, economic and environmental impacts, E9
- Assess / Evaluate fluid flows in energy conversion systems, compute pressure drops and heat losses and fluid - structure interactions, E10
- Analyze the energy and exergy efficiency of industrial energy systems, E21
- Explain and calculate the main emission sources of energy conversion processes, E23
Teaching methods
- Ex-cathedra
- Calculation examples in class
- Exercises
Assessment methods
Written examination.
Resources
Bibliography
Borel, Favrat Thermodynamics and energy systems analysis, EPFL Press + distributed documents available in pdf on moodle.
Ressources en bibliothèque
- Thermodynamique et énergétique II / Borel
- Thermodynamique et énergétique I / Borel
- Borel, Favrat Thermodynamics and energy systems analysis
Moodle Link
In the programs
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Thermal power cycles and heat pump systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Thermal power cycles and heat pump systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Thermal power cycles and heat pump systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Thermal power cycles and heat pump systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Thermal power cycles and heat pump systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Thermal power cycles and heat pump systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
Reference week
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