Field of knowledge: 14 “Electrical Engineering”
Specialty: 142 “Power Engineering”
Educational program: “Gas Turbine Plants and Compressor Stations”
Study content:
Energy machines , in a broad sense of the word, are machines that provide:
- the conversion of energy from one form (nuclear, chemical bonds, thermal, mechanical, electrical,…) to another (reactors, furnaces, turbines, compressors, electric generators, engines);
- energy transfer from one carrier to another (heat exchangers, refrigerators, ejectors,…);
- adjustment of parameters (such as temperature, pressure, velocity, rotational speed, voltage, AC frequency,…) and energy of a certain form (reducers, transformers,…).
The Aerospace faculty of the National Aviation University (NAU) specializes in educational program “ Gas turbine plants and compressor stations ” in frame of specialty “Power machinery”, specializing in thermal power equipment, with a focus on stationary gas turbine engines, used to drive, in particular, natural gas superchargers at compressor stations of main gas pipelines, generators at electrical power plants.
The educational process is built using many years of experience in training at NAU and, in particular, at the graduating department (Department of Aircraft Engines) of specialists in the operation of aircraft gas turbine engines and piston power plants: training materials; classrooms, which are equipped with prepared full-scale engines, drawings and diagrams of these engines, their individual structural elements and functional systems.
Based on knowledge of general technical disciplines, students majoring in 142 “Power Engineering”
NAU study the theory of working processes of gas turbine plants of different schemes, working processes of the main elements of the air-gas partht of these plants (compressor stages, combustion chamber, turbine stages), thermodynamics and gas dynamics. This, in turn, creates a basis for students to further study the design of gas turbine bplants, ensuring their strength and durability, management of their operation, technology and organization of their design, manufacture, testing, installation, operation, diagnosis and repair.
Objects of the economy, the creation and operation of which may be associated with the professional activities of graduates:
- stationary and mobile power plants and thermal power plants using steam turbine and gas turbine thermodynamic cycles, solid, liquid, gaseous and nuclear fuels;
- heat generating enterprises and installations of housing and communal services, industry and agro-industrial complex;
- engines of aircraft, water, rail and road transport;
- compressor stations of main gas pipelines;
- research organizations dealing with the problems of increasing the energy efficiency of operation, durability, resources and economic efficiency of engines and heat equipment operation;
- educational institutions.
Possible areas of application of professional knowledge:
- structural design of thermal power equipment;
- technological design of heat and power equipment;
- manufacture of structural elements and assemblies of thermal power equipment;
- acceptance tests of thermal power equipment;
- installation and adjustment of heat and power equipment;
- technical operation of heat and power equipment;
- dispatch operation of heat and power equipment;
- diagnosing structural elements of thermal power equipment;
- repair of heat and power equipment;
- modernization of heat and power equipment;
- creation, operation and modernization of control systems for the operation of thermal power facilities;
- ensuring the environmental safety of heat facilities;
- development of normative documents for heat power facilities;
- related branches of mechanical engineering and energy (wind, hydro, nuclear, electrical,…);
- research (technical thermodynamics, technical gas dynamics, strength and durability of structural materials and structural elements of equipment, engineering technology, technical diagnostics;
- teaching
forms of education:
- – fulltime;
- – correspondence;
- – remote.
Languages of study:
- – Ukrainian;
- – English.
Training period:
- – 5.5 years.
- Entrance examination subjects for admission to the specialty:
- mathematics, physics or a foreign language
Field of knowledge: 14 “Electrical Engineering”
Specialty: 142 “Power Engineering”
Educational program: “Aircraft Engines and Energy Plants”
Study content:
Aircraft gas turbine engines are the most complex and at the same time the most advanced energy machines, which provide the conversion of heat, generated by fuel combustion, first into the kinetic and potential energy of the working fluid (which is the flow of compressed air) and then into the driving force capable of moving the flying vehicle in the air at high speed and over long distances. This means that the aircraft gas turbine engine performs two functions simultaneously: it is both a heat engine, that converts heat into mechanical energy, and a propulsion device, that moves the aircraft in the air.
For the design, manufacture and efficient use of such complex machines as aircraft gas turbine engines and other aircraft energy plants in future, specialists who have mastered the knowledge of mathematics, physics, thermo- and gas dynamics, material science, computer design of mechanisms and machines are needed. This is the set of knowledge and skills that will be received by students studying in the educational-professional program “Aircraft engines and energy plants” in the bachelor’s degree in specialty “Power Engineering”.
Areas and objects of the industry, the creation and operation of which may be associated with the professional activities of graduates:
– design bureaus for the design of engines for aircraft, water, rail and road transport; power plants;
– plants for the manufacturing engines for vehicles and stationery energy machines;
-repair plants for aircraft engines, water, rail and road transport and energy macines;
– research organizations for the development and testing of gas turbine engines and energy
installations.
Possible areas of application of professional knowledge:
– structural design of gas turbine engines and energy plants and other heat and energy equipment;
– manufacture of gas turbine engines, power plants and other heat and energy
equipment;
– acceptance and approval tests of aircraft engines and other objects of
heat and eneergy equipment;
– technical operation of aircraft and other transport gas turbine engines,
power plants and other heat and energy equipment;
– diagnosing structural elements of thermal energy equipment;
– repair of aircraft and other transport gas turbine engines, power plants and
other heat and energy equipment;
– development of normative documents for operation and repair of aircraft and other transport gas turbine engines, power plants and other heat and energy equipment;
– scientific research (aircraft and other transport gas turbine engines, technical gas dynamics, strength and durability of structural materials and structural elements of equipment, engineering technologies, technical diagnostics);
– teaching activity.
Forms of education:
– fulltime;
– correspondence;
– remote.
Languages of study:
– Ukrainian;
– English.
Training period:
– 5.5 years.
Entrance examination subjects for admission to the specialty:
mathematics, physics or a foreign language