Increased Energy Efficiency in Steel Industry

Appendix 1

Course: Increased Energy Efficiency in Steel Industry

Programme Summary

Major: 13.04.01 Thermal Power Engineering and Thermal Technology

Degree: Master

Course units:

• Unit 1. Introduction
• Unit 2. Classification of energy sources. Thermal characteristics of utilities.
• Unit 3. Natural gas supply systems in industry. Looking at the system components.
• Unit 4. Synthetic fuel gases and combustible exhaust gases in steel industry.
• Unit 5. Heat transformation. Perfect and actual vapour-liquid cycles of thermal power transformers. Heat accumulation.
• Unit 6. Analysing the efficiency of absorption units used as a part of low energy utilisation systems.
• Unit 7. Application of compressed air distribution systems for better energy efficiency.

Course contents:

• Unit 1. Introduction
• Unit 2. Classification of energy sources. Thermal characteristics of utilities.
• Unit 3. Natural gas supply systems in industry. Looking at the system components.
• Unit 4. Synthetic fuel gases and combustible exhaust gases in steel industry.
• Unit 5. Heat transformation. Perfect and actual vapour-liquid cycles of thermal power transformers. Heat accumulation.
• Unit 6. Analysing the efficiency of absorption units used as a part of low energy utilisation systems.
• Unit 7. Application of compressed air distribution systems for better energy efficiency.

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 – 36.

Unsupervised hours – 108.

Midterm assessment – Pass/fail examination.