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Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. | Evaluated Learning Experience

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Advanced Performance (FPE-0209)

Formerly (PG-059-3)
Course Category: 
Central Operations - Substations and Steam
Length: 

80 hours (2 weeks).

Location: 
Power Generation Services Training Center, 910 East 134th St., Bronx, NY (through December 1992); The Learning Center, 43-82 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY (beginning January 1993); and other company locations in the New York Metropolitan area.
Dates: 

September 1987 - Present.

Instructional delivery format: 
Traditional classroom model
Learner Outcomes: 

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to calculate boiler efficiency and losses, turbine heat rate and losses, and power plant efficiencies.

Instruction: 

Major topics include: turbine heat-rate calculation; heat loss calculation for load change, circulating water temperature, back pressure, superheat and reheat attemperation, turbine foiling and deterioration, throttle pressure and temperature, reheat temperature, feedwater heater, and auxiliary power; boiler efficiency calculations; causes and measurements of losses: steam flow, fuel usage, outside air temperature, combustion, air leakage, exit gas temperature, and atomizing steam; American Society of Mechanical Engineersr (ASME) test code procedures for turbine efficiency, feedwater heater, and boiler heat balances; analysis and evaluation of test results to determine causes for losses and the effects on heat rate.

Credit recommendation: 

In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 2 semester hours in Electromechanical, Energy Management, Combustion, or Mechanical Engineering Technology (5/88) (5/93 revalidation) (12/98 revalidation) (1/04 revalidation) (10/14 revalidation) (9/19 revalidation). NOTE: If credit has already been awarded for Power Plant Thermodynamics (FPE-0205), the credit recommendation for this course is reduced to 1 semester hour.

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