ECAM ENGINEERING PROGRAM
Combined Bachelor's / Master's Degree
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| Academic program | ECAM ENGINEERING PROGRAM | :
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Status :
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Period :
SEMESTER 7 |
Education language :
English |
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| Learning Outcomes |
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| - Knowledge about the different gas turbine technologies, their specific combustion processes and polluting emissions, as well as their practical uses for the production of mechanical or electrical power, inside combined cycle systems or cogeneration configurations. |
| Content |
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| • Gas turbine technologies (Heavy Duty, aeroderivatives, etc.), improvements (cogeneration, combined cycles) and uses. • Gas turbines specific combustion processes: operating modes, thermodynamics models, practical fuels and pollutants management. • Theory of turbomachines applied to compressible flows and gas turbines. • Gas turbines thermodynamic cycles. • Main components and technological aspects of gas turbine technologies. |
| Pre-requisites / co-requisites |
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| Chemistry S1, Thermodynamics S2, Fluid Mechanics S3, Heat transfer S5. |
| Bibliography |
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| • Dixon, S. L. and Hall, C. A., Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014. • H. Cohen, G. F. C. Rogers, and H. I. H. Saravanamuttoo. Gas Turbine Theory. Longman, 1996. • M. P. Boyce. Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook. Gulf Professional Publishing, 2002. • T. Giampaolo. Gas Turbine Handbook: Principles and Practices.The Fairmont Press, 2006. |
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| N° | Nature | Coefficient | Observable objectives |
| 1 | Practical analysis of a gas turbine, its performance and the mass and energy balances of its combustion process. | 1 | Written exam |