Integrating a Cogeneration Facility into Engineering Education

将热电联产设施纳入工程教育

• 批准号: 0716303
• 负责人: Frederick Knopf
• 金额: $ 48.49万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0716303&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Cogeneration; Facility; into; Engineering

A study of energy production and management with the analysis of real-time data from a newly constructed 25MW cogeneration facility is being incorporated into the Chemical and Mechanical Engineering curricula. Providing students real time data from actual processes, along with the modeling tools necessary to make sense of the data,is enlivening and enriching such subjects as Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Systems Analysis, and Process Control. The tools being developing are based on universal platforms: Excel; VBA; and, widely available commercial process simulators.The data, web-available, is allowing sophomore-year students to perform real-world material and energy balance calculations on major unit operations including gas and steam turbines, air conditioning systems, cooling towers, and boilers. Topics including data reduction and data reconciliation will be introduced naturally. Junior-year students are exploring advanced process modeling, including energy recovery in a heat recovery steam generator. Vertical integration of such individual operations is enabling senior-year students to explore global issues in energy production and management, including the optimization of utility costs and the analysis of process dynamics associated with process upsets and highly variable loads, and the resulting optimal control strategies.

一项关于能源生产和管理的研究，以及对新建的25兆瓦热电联产设施的实时数据的分析，正在纳入化学和机械工程课程。 为学生提供来自实际过程的真实的时间数据，沿着必要的建模工具来理解这些数据，活跃和丰富了热力学，传热学，系统分析和过程控制等学科。正在开发的工具基于通用平台：Excel、Excel和广泛使用的商业过程模拟器。这些数据可通过网络获得，使本科生能够对主要单元操作（包括燃气轮机和蒸汽轮机、空调系统、冷却塔和锅炉）进行真实的材料和能量平衡计算。将自然地介绍包括数据减少和数据协调在内的主题。大三学生正在探索先进的过程建模，包括在热回收蒸汽发生器的能量回收。这种单独操作的垂直整合使大四学生能够探索能源生产和管理中的全球问题，包括公用事业成本的优化和与过程扰动和高度可变负载相关的过程动态分析，以及由此产生的最佳控制策略。