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ENPG21002 Advanced Power Plant (CQU) - download the 2010 course flyer here
Course Code:
 
ENPG21002
Course Name:
 

Advanced Power Plant (CQU)
Course Description:
 

This course presents features, operation, advantages and limitations of common power plants, drivers for improvement, and features of advanced power plants. It introduces students to analysis of thermal performance and principles of plant design and operation, including fuel preparation, optimisation of combustion, performance improvement, and economics of operation, maintenance and statutory inspection. General topics include

  • Describe the features, operations, advantages and limitations of common power plants
  • Improvement and main features of advanced power plants
  • Thermal performance and principles of power plant design
  • Comminition theory to fuel crushing and pulverising plant
  • Optimising the combustion processes
  • Performance improvement
  • Operation and maintenance problems
  • Economics of plant operation
  • Statutory inspections  
Cost: $3250
Presenter/s:
Mr Malcolm Leinster  

Mr Leinster graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Queensland Institute of Technology (now QUT) and has worked in Queensland's power generation industry for over 35 years, of which nearly 30 years was spent at Gladstone Power Station. With the commissioning of Gladstone Power Station’s first unit in 1976 came a host of reliability problems. In 1978 Mr Leinster became part of a six person industry-wide special investigation team, Gladstone Task Force, who were given the task of overcoming early reliability problems with the first units. He later led another Burner Front Investigation Group charged with overcoming all remaining reliability problems with Gladstone’s burner systems. Some aspects of this technology were transferred to other QEC power stations. In recent years he has been increasingly involved in plant life assessment and asset management.

Course Coordinator: 
Mohammad Rasul 

Course Coordinator email:  

Course Coordinator phone: 
(07) 4930 9676 

Delivery mode:
Intensive
 
More information:
Please contact Student Contact Centre on 13 2786 or email scc@cqu.edu.au 
 
The below Student Handbook weblink will also provide basic information regarding the course.

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