• know the basic problems associated with the operation of existing power plants.
• Know the basic methods of methods of improving fuel consumption efficiency;
• know the basic concept of the heat source, thermodynamic basis of the process of compression, how cool the working fluid;
• a concept of exergy; heat pump; chillers; Steam-power installation;
• possess the technological principles of energy combination.

• Physics;
• Higher mathematics;
• Environmental engineering.

The basic definitions of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics and its methods of analysis. Parameters of the system. The concept of thermodynamic processes. The process of gas compression in the compressor. Compressors classification. Indicator and P-V diagram piston compressor. Options for gas compression in the compressor. Methods of cooling of the working fluid. Compress the working fluidin the gas-expansion units. Analysis of ideal expansion of process of working fluid in the gas-expansion units.

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3. Н. Л. Пирогов, С. П. Сушон, А. Г. Завалко. Вторичные ресурсы: эффективность, опыт, перспективы. -М.: Энергоиздат, 1987.

• Current control, oral examination (30%)
• final control (control measure, exam), written-oral form (70%)