Low-Waste and Non-Waste Industrial Processes

Published: Friday, 14 October 2016 06:38

Appendix 1

 Course: Low-Waste and Non-Waste Industrial Processes

Programme Summary

Major: 13.04.01 Thermal Power Engineering and Thermal Technology

Degree: Master

Course units:

Unit 1. Basic waste-free and energy saving technology.

Unit 2. Efficiency and waste utilization.

Unit 3. Energy capacity and energy efficiency of the current industrial thermal technology.

Unit 4. Process optimization and development of new processes in steel industry.

Course contents:

Unit 1. Basic waste-free and energy saving technology.

The concept of waste-free technology, ways for enhancing waste-free production, waste-free technology and energy saving, national energy efficiency policy, potential fuel saving in thermal power plants, waste-free technology principles, implementing new energy efficient thermal processes. Basic waste-free and energy saving technology.

Unit 2. Efficiency and waste utilization.

Efficiency indicators in terms of processes and combined plants, environmental performance indicators, material efficiency indicators, energy efficiency indicators.

Unit 3. Energy capacity and energy efficiency of the current industrial thermal technology.

Basic causes of low energy efficiency in thermal power plants, energy intensity of steel production, methods for designing energy consumption rates, specific energy consumption rates applicable to industrial furnaces, systematic approach to energy efficiency, production energy cost estimation, energy intensity: energy cost monitoring in three different forms, aggregate energy table by steel product.

Unit 4. Process optimization and development of new processes in steel industry.

Optimisation of steel production: improved structure and basic processes, combined production, industrial plants, new advanced processes involving energy saving technology and equipment and the ultimate energy efficiency method.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total hours – 144.

Total points – 4.

Classroom hours – 32.

Unsupervised hours – 76.

Midterm assessment – Examination.