The course aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge to understand the technologies of different electrical power generating stations, as well as their collaboration in the power system giving emphasis to economic operation. The target is to understand the complexity, the operation principles and the technology of the power stations with emphasis to the thermal and hydroelectric plants, as well as the characteristics of electric power load and of power production, so that the least cost supply of the electrical consumers.

 

Course Description

The course includes: Greek interconnected power system elements. Categories of electrical power generating stations. Steam power electric plant. Gas turbines power plants. Thermodynamic cycles and technological issues. Enviroment effects. Heat & electric co-generation. Combined power plants. Hdyroelectric plants. Flow curve, hydraulic losses, categories of hydro-turbines, small and large plants, dams, pump hydroelectric power plants. Thermal nuclear power plants.  Renewable power plants. Automatic voltage regulator and frequency regulator. Electric power load analysis – characteristics – curves. Economic analysis. Tariffs’ policy. Reliability’s analysis. Optimal economic operation. Load forecasting. Plants’ co-operation. 

Expected Course Outcome

After the course the students will be able:

• To understand the operation principles and the technologies of the electric power plants.
• To have the knowledge for the co-operation and the economic operation of the power plants in the power system.

To be familiar with the characteristics and the analysis principles of power loads and to carry out the optimal economic operation 

Bibliography

Greek:

1. Παπαδιάς Β., Βουρνάς Κ. «Παραγωγή ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας και έλεγχος συχνότητας και τάσεως», Εκδόσεις Συμμετρία, 1991.
2. Μπακιρτζής Α., «Οικονομική λειτουργία συστημάτων ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας», Εκδόσεις Ζήτη, 1998.

English:

1. Kiameh P., “Power Generation Handbook”, McGraw-Hill, 2002.
2. Grigsby L.”The Electric Power Engineering Handbook”, CRC Press, 2000.
3. Allen J. Wood and Bruce F. Wollenberg, “Power Generation, Operation, and Control”, Wiley-Interscience, 1996.