Course Content
This training course is taught through class room and practical exercises, thanks to our simulators, it focusses on the core principles of coal and oil fired power plant operation, including:
- Thermodynamics
- Boilers
- Methods of firing
- Turbine plant
- Condensers and C.W. systems
- Feed systems
- Combustion
- Electrical theory
- Alternators
- Water treatment/chemical control
- Optimisation and efficiency
- Safety, plant care and fire systems
- Simulator exercises – Revision of plant start-up control
- Control of plant during excursions and emergency situations, control of output to achieve emergency
- Generation targets