Course summary: the course refers to an elective part of the undergraduate curriculum interdisciplinary professional module, major 13.03.01 "Thermal Power and Heat Systems Engineering".

The course goal is to develop students’ knowledge and skills as pertaining to boilers thermal design, effective fuel combustion structuring in various furnace units, process analysis of boiler units’ circuits.

Course of study core units:

• power fuel and fuel utilization efficiency;
• furnace design and heat exchange aspect inside a furnace;
• heating surface placing, operational factors and computation methods;
• operations of boiler units.

Through the course students complete a term project. Boiler is the term project main object which is a part of an industrial factory boiler unit. Among offered term paper subjects are plans call for a steam or water heating boiler thermal design using referee method with its results analysis.

Program note: the course refers to an elective part of the undergraduate curriculum interdisciplinary professional module, major: "Thermal Power and Heat Systems Engineering", educational program specializations: "Industrial Thermal Power Engineering", "Thermal Power Plants", "Industrial Processes and Plants Automation in Thermal Power and Heat Systems Engineering"

Course of study core units:

• natural water impurities and water quality indexes;
• preliminary water treatment;
• ion-exchange water treatment;
• nonchemical water treatment;
• water degasification and other.

Through the course practical work students perform water treatment process chart calculations for Power industry. Through the course laboratory work students develop skills to perform water analysis and water treatment applying various methods.

Program note: the course refers to an elective part of the undergraduate curriculum interdisciplinary professional module, major: "Thermal Power and Heat Systems Engineering", educational program specialization: "Atomic Power Plants Boilers, Combustion chambers and Steam generating units".

Course of study core units:

• natural water impurities and water quality indexes;
• preliminary water treatment;
• ion-exchange water treatment;
• nonchemical water treatment;
• water degasification and other.

Through the course laboratory work students develop skills to perform water analysis and water treatment applying various methods.

Program note: the course refers to an elective part of the graduate curriculum interdisciplinary professional module, major "Power engineering".

Course of study core units:

• system engineering and project management as energy systems handling tool;
• system engineering standards;
• system lifecycle form (its choice) and lifecycle description;
• typical variants of different energy systems lifecycle;
• requirements development and application during system lifecycle.

Through the course practical and laboratory work students perform complex task in a case form which are developed for problem solving of real regional factories.

Program note: : the course refers to an elective part of the graduate curriculum interdisciplinary professional module, major "Research and Design of boilers, steam generating units and combustion chambers".

Course of study core units:

• low and medium-pressure steam and hot-water boilers;
• furnace system special features for boilers with power and heating application;
• hydrodynamic of boilers with power and heating application;
• special features of water-steam circuit processes and water-chemistry regime set-up conditions.

Program note: the course refers to an elective part of the graduate curriculum interdisciplinary professional module, major "Power engineering".

Course of study core units:

• physico-chemical properties of pipe deposition forming compounds;
• scale formation and water-steam circuit deposition processes;
• modern methods of scale formation processes control;
• water-steam and gas circuit corrosion and its prevention.