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Overview
Key facts
This five-day course offers an advanced introduction to the principles of operation, configuration, characteristics and key implementation issues of various types of power plants. It will be of particular interest to engineers employed in the heat and power generation industries.
Cranfield University's Heat and Power Generation Systems programme will teach you more about this topic.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Fuels and thermal conversion processes: primary solid and liquid fuels. Carbonisation of solid fuels. Thermodynamic equations. Dissociation and chemical equilibrium. Process efficiency, emission control and standards,
- Furnaces and boilers: types of furnaces and classification. Heat transfer in furnaces, efficient furnace and boiler design. Boiler efficiency and part-load operation and its maintenance,
- Overview: World electricity demand and generation. Fuels. Environmental impacts,
- Steam power plants: Thermodynamic principles. Fuels. Steam power generation cycles,
- Gas turbine and combined-cycle power plants: Gas turbine engines and performance. Gas turbine cycles. Combined-cycle power plants,
- Dieseland gas-engine power plants: Diesel engines. Fuels. Emission control. Heat recovery systems,
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Energy Engineering View 17 other Short Courses in Energy Engineering in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
This course will be of particular interest to engineers employed in the heat and power generation industries.
Tuition Fee
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International
1700 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1700 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1700 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1700 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Cranfield
700 - 1300 GBP /month
Living costs
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