Description
and Educational Program of Water and Fuel Technology Speciality
1. Standard duration of study of dipl. specialist on the basis of the
second level of higher education is five or six months.
2. Professional purpose and possible fields of activity.
The specialist is prepared for industrial-technological, management,
design, and research activities in the field of fossil and nuclear power
industry. The specialist can work in industrial enterprises, research and
design institutions of power industry and associated industries, and can
take positions specified for the dipl. specialist.
3. Educational program of the Water and Fuel Technology Speciality is
based on a two-level system. The first is Bachelor of Technical Science
on the basic direction “Thermal Engineering” with special training (additional
special disciplines). Duration of this educational level is four years.
The next educational level is Dipl. Engineer with duration of 1.5 years
on the Bachelor’s basis. This level completes with diploma defense.
All disciplines studied during training of the dipl. specialist are
divided into five groups:
- general humanitarian and socio-economic disciplines; - general natural
scientific disciplines; - general professional disciplines; - special disciplines;
- engineering training disciplines.
At least 10% of disciplines established by a higher educational institution
are provided within the first three groups, including the disciplines selected
by students. This provides sufficient flexibility in training of the dipl.
specialist.
Duration of theoretical education is 183 weeks at total rate for students
54 hrs per week. Maximum average rate of compulsory studies in semester
does not exceed 29 hrs/week, and that of self-education - 25 hrs/week.
4. Structure of professional educational program.
4.1. General humanitarian and socio-economic disciplines:
- Foreign language
- Basis of humanitarian knowledge
- History
- Philosophy
- Politology
- Culturology
- Laws
- Economy and business
- Physical training
- Courses selected by students and established by higher educational
institution
4.2. General natural scientific disciplines:
- Higher mathematics
- Informatics
- Physics
- Theoretical mechanics
- Chemistry
- Ecology
- Courses selected by students and established by the higher educational
institution
4.3. General professional disciplines:
-Theoretical basis of heat engineering
- Engineering graphics
- Applied mechanics
- Materials
- Electrotechnics and electronics
- Metrology, thermal measurements and instruments, automation
- Technology of centralized production of electricity and heat
-Production and distribution of power sources and industrial enterprises
- Use of energy in power industry and technologies
- Safety of vital activity
- Courses selected by students and established by the higher educational
institution
4.4. Special disciplines established by the higher educational institution,
including student-selected ones:
- Boilers and steam generators
- Turbines of fossil and nuclear power plants
- Theoretical basis of chemistry technology processes in power industry
- Coolant chemistry monitoring
- Fossil and nuclear power plants
- Water technology
- Cycle chemistry of power-generating units
- Engineering experiment in chemistry technology systems
- Use of fuel and protection of environment
4.5. Engineering training disciplines established by the higher educational
institution, including student-selected ones:
- Operation of power-generating units
- Development and construction of fossil power plants with high rate
of environmental protection
- Design and commissioning of water treatment equipment at fossil and
nuclear power plants
- Coolant conditioning and reliability of fossil and nuclear power plants
- Technology of fuel and oils used in power industry
- Mathematical simulation of cycle chemistry
- Chemistry technology monitoring systems at fossil and nuclear power
plants
- Complex processing of highly mineralized solutions in power industry
- Automatic Process Control Systems and Computer
-Aided Design of power-generating equipment
- Optimization of chemistry technology processes
-Operating conditions of heating supply systems
- Special problems of water and fuel chemistry technology
- Safety in chemistry departments and laboratories
- Disciplines given by Scientific Council
5. Control and correspondence of the level of the dipl. specialist training
to the state requirements is performed by the State Attestation Board upon
completion of the educational and professional program of the first (Bachelor’s)
level, and the second level (defense of diploma project). In addition,
during all period of study there is rating control of current advance and
concluding discipline control. There is also periodical checking of student
knowledge during study with special complex control done by state institutions.
In this laboratory a physico-chemical analysis of water solutions is
performed. Here the laboratory work is performed by the students on four
disciplines of 10.06 specialty: “Theoretical Basis of Chemistry Technology
Processes in Power Industry”, “Water Technology”, “Cycle Chemistry Monitoring”,
and “Chemistry Technology Monitoring Systems”.
The students are familiarized with the basis of wet and instrumental
analytical chemistry: determination of concentration of the basic anions
of inorganic acids (chloride, sulfate, nitrate etc.); anions of weak (carbon
and silicic) acids; cations (calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, copper etc.);
soluble gases (oxygen, carbon dioxide); oxidizability, and other water
purity parameters.
The laboratory instrumentation includes ion meters, conductivity meters,
and potentiometers. This provides determination of the following water
parameters: pH, metal ion content, specific conductivity, Eh, corrosion
rate etc.
In addition, photoelectric colorimeters, flame-photometers, titrators,
and calorimeters are available.
The laboratory is equipped with domestic ion chromatographs. This provides
quick determination of a large number of ions and cations.
Laboratory
of Fuel and Oils Used in Power Industry
In this laboratory an analysis and a study of different fuels and oils
used in power industry. Here the laboratory and practical work is performed
by the 4-5th-year students on several disciplines including: “Fuel and
combustion Processes”, “Use of Fuel and Protection of Environment”, “Technology
and Monitoring of Fuel and Oil”.
The laboratory instrumentation includes calorimeters, chromatographs
for analysis of fuel gas and combustion products composition, instruments
for technical analysis of solid and liquid fuel, and for determination
of parameters and properties of the oils used in power industry. In the
process of laboratory works students are familiarized with principles and
basis of wet and instrumental analysis, and determination of properties
and parameters of fuel and oil. The students use computers to perform calculations
on the basis of experimental data. They develop own programs or use standard
software. In addition to the training of students, the laboratory is used
to perform research on the fuel technology at power plants.
Laboratory
of Mathematical Simulation of Chemistry Technology Processes
In this laboratory the research and calculations with mathematical models
of thermal engineering and chemistry technology units and installations
used at fossil and nuclear power plants is performed. Here the laboratory
work is performed by the 1st-5th-year students of Thermal Engineering,
Industrial Thermal Engineering, and Energy-Physical faculties on the following
disciplines: “Informatics”, “Physico-Chemical Basis of Water Use”, “Cycle
Chemistry of Power-Generating Units”, “Engineering Experiment”, “Water
Technology at Power Plants” etc.
The first-year students are trained within the Informatics to operate
up-to-date computers, are familiarized with mathematical software and programs
and how to use them in future studies.
The 2nd-5th-year students are familiarized in a course of laboratory
studies with: design of the chemistry technology units; chemical and physico-chemical
processes taking place in these units and in power-generating equipment
at fossil and nuclear power plants. They are trained to develop computer
programs and mathematical models. the training is performed with ten original
automatic training courses, eleven trainers, and thirteen laboratory works
developed by the department personnel.
The 4-5th-year students work on course and diploma projects without
assistance, with the knowledge obtained. They widely use eight laboratory
IBM computers connected to INTERNETochkov@twt.mpei.ac.ru
. All computers have DOS and WINDOWS with WORD, EXCEL, MATHCAD,
VISUAL BASIC, and other WINDOWS applications. Besides, every year this
laboratory hosts personnel of Russian utilities, where they are trained
with the automatic training courses and the trainers. Connection of the
department server to INTERNET or RAO network gives to the educational personnel
of the department possibility to develop and introduce new methods of remote
training of the network clients - utility and power plant personnel, students
etc.
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