Topics for Master degree state examinations - Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering and Management
Major topical areas for all students:
Economy of Power Industry:
Costs of electricity transmission and distribution, specific revenues, marginal costs, tariffs. Transmission system management, ancillary and system services. Electricity trading, regulated and unregulated activities in the energy sector.
Elements and Operation of Electrical Power Systems:
Power system parameters, power components parameters. Power system simulation for steady states and transients.
Quality and reliability:
Quality definition, tools and systems of quality management. Statistical inspection by comparison. Coefficients of capability. Definition of reliability. Failure rate, repair rate. Cold and warm backup. Determining reliability and failure probability.
Mechanical structures of power plants:
Thermodynamic cycles and possibilities of their improvement. Combined Gas-Vapor cycle. Characteristics of auxiliary equipment of power plants (pumps, valves, hydraulic servomechanisms).
Major topical areas for specialization Power Engineering, Electric Drives, Technological Systems:
Ecology and materials:
Ecological risks and ecological audit, eco-design, LCA (life cycle assessment), recycling. Replacement of materials harmful to the environment. Measures in electronic products for operation in harsh environmental conditions.
Solar system applications:
Photovoltaic (PV) systems, types, characteristics. Price comparison of electricity generated by different sources. Optimization and reliability of PV systems.
High Voltage Engineering:
Electrical discharges in Power Engineering, Overvoltage protection, Diagnostic methods in MV and HV systems.
Transmission and Distribution of Electricity:
Power Flow Control, FACTS systems, DC systems. electromagnetic and Electromechanical phenomenae in power grids.
Theory and Application of Power Converters:
Converters for special applications, voltage inverters, rectifiers and pulse-width modulation strategies, applications of power semiconductor converters.
Electric Machinery and Apparatus:
Generalized theory of electrical machines, specification for DC and AC motors, mathematical model of AC machine, operation of a synchronous machine connected to the power grid, stability and overloading, transient phenomena, low voltage switching apparatuses, properties and applications.
Topical areas for eligible/optional courses:
Power components in electrical engineering:
Functional design, properties and production technology of passive and power semiconductor devices.
Electrical Light:
Light field, calculation of light field characteristics, basics of colorimetry, lighting systems.
Modeling of dynamic systems:
Principles of modeling nonlinear systems with multiple degrees of freedom. Basic equations of motion for combined systems of rigid body, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Principles of vehicle movement modeling, adhesion, longitudinal and lateral slip.
Economy of Energy Use:
Energy legislation and policies of the EU and the Czech Republic, economic evaluation of savings, energy efficiency tools, energy audit.
Minor topical areas for specialization Electric Drives
Electric Drives and Traction:
Realization of variable speed drive, control algorithms (vector, direct) of modern controlled drives DC, asynchronous, synchronous, electric cars and hybrid cars, electric drives components design and methods of electric drive simulation.
Control and Regulation of Electric Drives, Digital Control of Electric Drives:
Digital signal processing techniques, testing and monitoring in electric drives, control part of the electric drive, features, structure, software and hardware support for implementation of drive control algorithms, sampled systems and digital signal processing, protective circuits
Minor topical areas for specialization Power Engineering
Electrical heat:
Physical similarity theory, mathematical models of thermal systems, theory and simulation of induction heating.
Distribution of Electrical Energy:
Power disturbances in distribution systems and its mitigation, power quality, intelligent transmission and distribution systems, Smart Grids.
Power Plants:
Technology cycles of thermal and nuclear power plants, self-consumtion topologies, dynamics, simulation models. Renewable energy sources.
Minor topical areas for specialization Technological Systems
Simulation of production systems:
Models of processes in electrotechnical production, solving methods. Static and dynamic models. Analytical and mathematical approach to modeling. SW for modeling of technological systems and their components.
Testing methods in electrotechnology:
Measurement of properties of electrotechnical materials, Measurement of dielectrics - methods, causes of errors and their elimination, Determination methods for parameters of conductive and insulating materials, Temperature measurement, Minimizing errors in temperature measurement, Humidity measurement, Pressure measurement, Diagnostic methods in electronic manufacturing.
Application of electrochemical energy sources:
Basic properties and behavior of electrochemical energy sources, types and properties of accumulators, measurement and diagnostics of electrochemical energy sources, basic design of chargers, UPS systems, hybrid systems, use of accumulators and their disposal/recycling.