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The standard layout of a guidance page for practical work is:

1) Objectives of the practical work (general and variants, context, process, prerequisites, learning objectives, types of activities)

2) References (main and auxiliary)

3) Main practical work (statement, solving approach, with the possible link to Diapason sessions, difficulties in visualizing thermodynamic charts, comparison with the Carnot cycle)

4) Variants (statements, procedures, problems ...)

5) Work Files

Setting out

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This guidance page deals with the study of the operation of solar power plants and shows how they can be realistically modeled with Thermoptim. The practical work is focused on the modeling of a SEGS type solar plant developed by the company Luz, represented as a simple variant of a Rankine cycle, where the boiler is replaced by a steam generator in which the thermal fluid is heated the collector array.

It requires two external classes, "solar concentrator" and "Dowtherm A".

Setting out

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The project objective is to study the operation of jet engines and show how they can be realistically modeled with Thermoptim.

The practical work allows students to build models of jet engines of increasing complexity:

- Single flow at fixed point on the ground with a variant of a gas turbine equipped with a nozzle

- Single flow in flight with inlet diffuser

- Afterburner configuration and turbofan.

It requires two external processes: " diffuser", " nozzle" and driver" thrust".

Setting out

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The project objective is to study the operation of power plants using the inverse temperature gradient existing in solar ponds.

Setting out and correction

The practical work allows students to build SOFC fuel cell models of increasing complexity, as presented in Diapason sessions S61En , S62En and S63En .

It uses many external classes presented in the document.

Setting out

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The project objective is to study OTEC cycles Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion designed to generate electricity in warm tropical waters using the temperature difference between water at the surface and in depth.

Two main types of cycles are used: closed cycles and open cycles, the latter providing pure water.

Setting out

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This guidance page focuses on the modeling of cooling towers, its objective being to show the gain of COP provided inan industrial refrigerating machine by the use of such a tower in place of an air-cooled condenser.

It requires two external classes, "DirectCoolingTowerInlet" and "DirectCoolingTower".

Setting out

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The project objective is to study one of the innovative power generation cycles using oxy-combustion, called AZEP (Advanced Zero Emission Power), and show how to model it realistically with Thermoptim. This work is the result of a collaboration between the CEP of the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the EPFL LENI.

It requires three external classes, "MIEC_Inlet", "MIEC" and "ColdBattery".

Setting out

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The project objective is to study the operation of power plants using geothermal energy and show how to model them realistically with Thermoptim.

Setting out

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This guidance page deals with ejector refrigeration cycles, shows how they can be modeled realistically with Thermoptim, and compares the results to those without ejector cycles.

Setting out and correction

The objective of the practical work is to study the implementation of the pinch method for the optimization of combined cycle power plants and show how they can be realistically modeled with Thermoptim. To do this work, it is necessary to have access to the Professional or Industrial version of Thermoptim.

Setting out and correction

This guidance page explains how to model a trigeneration facility by micro turbine and simple-effect absorption cycle

Setting out

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The objective is to study two air conditioning cycles (one for summer and one for winter), and show how to model them realistically with Thermoptim

Setting out and correction

This guidance page studies the secondary circuit of nuclear power plant: the objective is to model it in Thermoptim, calculate its energy balance, and perform some sensitivity analysis on some parameters

Setting out and correction

The practical work starts with the modeling presented in session S38En , and then shows how can be built an external driver to automate the setting of the cycle parameters.

Setting out

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The objective of this work is to study the use of such ejectors to extract noncondensable gases from the condenser of a steam propulsion engine of the Merchant Marine. Authors : R. Gicquel, P. Y. Larrieu.