Power plant technology
As a power plant technology which is used technique for energy conversion , to the power generation and power transmission of a power plant referred to. The techniques used (. E.g., more or less differ significantly depending on the type turbine - generator in thermal power stations ).
What all power plants have in common is that they use an energy source , the energy of which is converted into an electrical current through mechanical , thermal, chemical or electrical transformation that can be used by electrical consumers in industry or private households.
Basic principles for the design of power plant technology
- Low electricity generation costs (Cent / kWh)
- Good environmental compatibility
- High availability of the power plant
- High availability of the energy resource
- Long service life
- Network-dependent operating modes (high power gradients )
Sub-areas of power plant technology
- Pressure vessel and boiler construction
- Nuclear technology
- Fluid dynamics / thermodynamics (pipelines, steam generators )
- Control technology (control and measurement technology, control room technology)
- Monitoring devices (exhaust gas, radiation, SÜS , KÜS, LÜS )
- electrical machines (generator, electric motors, transformers )
- Turbo set (steam, gas and water turbines )
- Electronic data processing (process computer)
- Hoists and conveyors
- Chemical monitoring of the process media (feed and cooling water)
literature
- Wilfried Knies, Klaus Schierack: Electrical systems engineering - power plants, networks, switchgear, protective devices. Hanser, Munich / Vienna, ISBN 3-446-15712-3 .
- Rene Flosdorff, Günther Hilgarth: Electrical energy distribution. Teubner, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-519-36411-5 .