Thermal Power Engineering

Thermal Power Engineering

QUALIFICATION

  • First Stage of Higher Education - Bachelor of Тechnics and Technologies

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

ON 1 to conduct experimental studies on a given methodology, processing and analysis of the results obtained with the involvement of the appropriate mathematical apparatus;
ON 2 to apply measurement methods and modern technical means of measuring thermal parameters, methods and technical means of controlling the composition and quality of technological media in thermal power engineering and automating thermal processes;
ON 3 to use IT technologies and application packages to study the processes occurring in modern industrial enterprises;
ON 4 to conduct experimental research and development in the field of power engineering and heat technology, energy use and energy saving at TPPs for individual sections (stages, tasks) of the topic in accordance with approved methods;
ON 5 to develop plans for programs and methods of testing, conducting observations and measurements, drawing up their descriptions and conclusions in the development, modernization and operation of thermal power and heat engineering equipment of thermal power plants;
ON 6 to control environmental safety at work, to develop and implement environmental protection measures and measures for energy and resource saving at work;
ON 7 to make technical and economic balances of installations, technological processes, sections of thermal power plants, to organize accounting and rationing of expenses for fuel and energy resources, to carry out an energy assessment of thermal schemes and installations of thermal power plants;
ON 8 to apply knowledge about the organization of burning organic fuels in boiler furnaces, about thermophysical and hydrogasdynamic processes occurring in the gas-air and steam-water paths of a boiler plant, about the operating conditions of heating surfaces when solving applied technical problems;
ON 9 to implement low-waste and waste-free technologies for the production of heat and electricity at thermal power plants;
ON 10 to use computer technology for modeling and processing the results of experimental and theoretical studies (OpenFoam, Paraview, OriginLab, Labview, etc.) to organize the technologically efficient burning of fossil fuels and reduce harmful emissions;
ON 11 to ensure the competitiveness and efficiency of heat and power industry facilities using the tools of a competitive economy (laws, scientific approaches, principles, methods, models) for planning innovative energy facilities;
ON 12 to apply advanced methods of production management, methods of conducting energy surveys of consumers of energy resources.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Thermal Power Engineering
Speciality Code
6B07112
Faculty
of Physics and Technology

disciplines

Atomic Physics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge about the spectra of absorption, emission and scattering of light, the basic laws of spectroscopy, the relationship between various types of interaction of light with matter and the corresponding variants of spectroscopic methods of molecular or atomic analysis. Content: The structure of the atom. Atomic spectroscopy. Spectrometers. Plasma atomic emission spectroscopy. Radiation source. Analysis of trace amounts of substances. Optical emission spectroscopy with inductively coupled plasma. Emission spectra, concentration of substances.

Bases of thermal conductivity Theory
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: To form knowledge about the principles and laws of the theory of heat conduction, their mathematical expression; to acquaint with the main physical phenomena, methods of their observation and experimental research; to teach how to correctly formulate ideas and determine the limits of application of models. Contents: Thermal conductivity coefficients. Boundary conditions. Methods of heat conduction parabolic equation solving. Solution of the heat equation with different boundary conditions.

Blowers and Thermal Engines
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of scientific knowledge about structures and characteristics, physical principles of operation, calculation methods, industrial application of superchargers and thermal engines. Content: basic thermodynamic and gas-dynamic principles of operation of pumps, compressors, fans, analysis of the features of the performance of blowers and heat engines and assessment of their impact on the efficiency of heat power systems, substantiation of specific technical solutions when choosing a particular type of blower or heat engine for a heat power system.

Boiler installations and steam generators
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of types, designs, physical principles of operation of power boilers of thermal power plants and steam generators of nuclear power plants, the basics of operation and industrial application of boiler plants and steam boilers Content: scheme of the steam boiler; types and designs of power boilers in the schemes of thermal and nuclear power plants; thermal aerodynamic, hydraulic and strength calculations of the boiler unit; prospects for the development of steam generators and boiler units.

Boiler installations and steam generators
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of types, designs, physical principles of operation of power boilers of thermal power plants and steam generators of nuclear power plants, the basics of operation and industrial application of boiler plants and steam boilers; thermophysical and hydro-gas-dynamic processes in boilers. Contents: scheme of the steam boiler; types and designs of power boilers in the schemes of thermal and nuclear power plants; thermal aerodynamic, hydraulic and strength calculations of the boiler unit; prospects for the development of steam generators and boiler units.

Convective heat transfer
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form extensive knowledge about the fundamental laws, regularities and methods for analyzing and calculating the processes of convective heat transfer. Contents:physical bases of heat transfer by thermal conductivity; thermophysical properties of substances; coefficients of thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity; boundary conditions; methods for solving the parabolic equation of heat conduction; heat transfer theory: heat conduction, convection, radiation, heat transfer, heat transfer intensification; basics of mass transfer; heat and mass transfer devices.

Culturology
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim of discipline is to form a bachelor's understanding of the specifics of the development of national culture in the context of world culture and civilization, need to preserve the cultural code of the Kazakh people, ability to pursue in independent professional activity a strategy of preserving the cultural heritage.

Differential calculus
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Formation of knowledge of the basics of the theory of differential and integral equations, the use of differentiation and integration skills to solve applied problems in professional activities. Contents: Differential equations of the first order. Linear differential equations. Normal systems of differential equations. Linear partial differential equations. Elements of functional analysis. Elements of probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Electricity and Magnetism
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of the basic physical phenomena, concepts and laws, observation and experimental study methods of electricity and magnetism, processing, analysis of the experimental results. Contents: Electrostatics. Electric charges interaction. Electric charges conservation law. Electric field. Electrical capacity. Capacitors. Constant electric current. Ohm’s and Joule-Lenz’s laws. Kirchhoff's rules. Magnetic field. Superposition principle.

Energy strategy of the enterprise
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: obtaining theoretical knowledge about energy strategy of enterprise, structure of energy economy, methods and means of managing energy costs. Content: Features of energy management of the enterprise. Energy balance of enterprise. Tools for evaluating the efficiency of the use of energy resources. Features of the development and implementation of the energy strategy of the enterprise. Factors influencing the formation of the energy strategy of the enterprise.

Foreign Language
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form the improvement of knowledge of foreign language communicative competence. The main methods of speech skills and foreign language communication skills are considered as a basis for the development of communicative competence; implementation of acquired speech skills in the process of searching, selecting and using material in English.

Fuels and methods of its combustion
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to study the types of fuel and the main methods of its combustion with the greatest efficiency, the problems of using its heat in industry. Content: properties of fuels and their behavior in power plants; design and characteristics of equipment for the preparation of fuel, its combustion, and operating modes; methods and means of optimal organization of fuel preparation processes for combustion for highly efficient operation of boilers and furnaces.

Fundamentals of molecular physics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Acquisition of knowledge and skills in the study of the molecular structure, properties and processes occurring in various phase states of matter. Contents: Molecular-kinetic theory fundamentals. Meaning of temperature. Thermodynamic parameters. The ideal gas state equation. Statistical distributions. Pressure in liquid and gas. Continuity equation. Bernoulli equation. Fluid flow regimes. Isoprocesses. Carnot cycle. Real gases.

Fundamentals of the theory of fuel combustion
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to study the theoretical foundations of combustion and explosion processes with an analysis of the types of their effects on the environment, the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of these effects. Content: theory of combustion and explosion, mechanisms of chemical interaction during combustion of hydrocarbon fuels; critical ignition conditions; profile and velocity of the combustion wave, heat fluxes; combustion and detonation.

Higher mathematics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Teaching students the fundamental sections of higher mathematics, the formation of logical thinking necessary in solving engineering problems. Function; domain of definition; limits; scalar and vector quantities; directional derivative; extremum of a function of several variables; conditional extremum; fundamentals of higher and linear algebra; matrix; matrix determinant; actions on a matrix; vectors; actions on vectors; complex numbers; time series; mathematical statistics and probability theory.

Information-Communication Technologies
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects:ICT role in key sectors of development of society. Microsoft Office Windows Cybersafety. Internet technologies. Cloud and mobile technologies. Multimedia technologies. Smart Technology. E-technologies. Electronic business. E-learning. Electronic government. Information technologies in the professional sphere.

Kazakh (Russian) Language
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description -

Mathematics-І
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Formation of knowledge and mastering the basic concepts, laws, formulas, theorems, and methods of mathematical research studied in higher educational institutions. Contents: Linear algebra. Vector algebra. Analytical geometry on the plane and in space. Mathematical analysis introduction. One variable function’s integral calculus. Functions of many variables. Row theory.

Mathematics-ІI
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: the formation of students’ solid knowledge about the fundamentals of the theory of differential and integral equations, the use of differentiation and integration skills for solving applied tasks in professional activity. Content: Differential equations of the first order. Linear differential equations. Normal systems of differential equations. Linear Partial Differential Equations. Elements of functional analysis. Elements of probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Mechanics
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of students’ scientific thinking, correct understanding of applicability limits of various physical concepts, laws, theories, and skills to assess the reliability of results of experimental research methods. Content: Mechanics. Kinematics. Mechanical motion as the simplest form of motion of matter. Dynamics of a material point and a solid. Weight. Force. Newton's laws. Conservation laws. Mechanics of continuous media. Oscillations.

Military Training
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - MC
  • Description - Military Training

Module of socio-political knowledge (Culture)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Political science)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Psychology)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Sociology)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Sociology/ Political science/ Culture/ Psychology)
  • Number of credits - 8
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Molecular physics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge of physical theory based on observations, experiment and practical experience, explanation of the statistical nature of the laws of molecular physics; application of molecular physics in ecology and for ecosystems. Content: Molecular physics. Fundamentals of MKT. Thermodynamic parameters. Ideal gas. Statistical distributions. Pressure in liquid and gas. Bernoulli equation. Fluid flow modes. Beginnings of thermodynamics. Isoprocesses. Carnot cycle. Real gas. Equation of Clapeyron-Clausius.

Nuclear energetics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge in the field of heat generation and electricity generation due to the fission reaction of atomic nuclei. Content: Atomic energy. Nuclear power plant. Nuclear fuel cycle. Nuclear reactors. Environmental impact. Thermal pollution. International Atomic Energy Agency. Reliability, safety and economic efficiency of nuclear power. Prospects for nuclear energy

Nuclear Physics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: mastering the fundamental concepts, laws and theories of nuclear physics; development of funds for registration of radiation; mastering the skills of organizing and conducting an automated physical experiment. Content: equations of motion of charged particles. Principles of focusing charged particles in magnetic fields. Charged particle spectrometers at accelerators and reactors, alpha spectrometers, transport systems. Gas-filled detectors. Ionization and proportional chambers. Geiger counter. Thin gas detectors. Drift cameras. Semiconductor detectors.

Optics
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form a fundamental knowledge base for students in the section of optics for solving applied problems. Content: phenomena of refraction; basic concepts and definitions of geometric optics; interference of monochromatic light; double-beam interferometers; Rayleigh interferometer; application of multipath interference; diffraction phenomenon; concepts of polarization in optics; optics of anisotropic media.

Optimization technologies for fuel combustion
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge of theoretical and experimental methods for studying the processes of ignition, thermochemical preparation, combustion, and gasification of coals using the Paraview software package. Content: system studies of energy systems for analyzing trends and patterns of energy development; study of the method of predictive analysis of energy technologies based on mathematical modeling; mastering the skills of posing and solving problems of energy use in heat engineering production at the present stage of industrial development; formation of knowledge about the modernization of production systems.

Philosophy
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form a systematic understanding of philosophy and its main problems and methods in the context of future professional activities. The main content of ontology and metaphysics is considered in the context of the historical development of philosophy; the importance of key worldview concepts in the modern world.

Physical Training
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - РК(с оценкой)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of social and personal competencies of students, ensuring the targeted use of the appropriate means of physical culture and sports for preservation, preparation for professional activities. As a result of studying the discipline, the graduate should know the role of physical culture in human development.

Physics (Mechanics)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Formation of scientific thinking, a correct understanding of the limits of applicability of various physical concepts, laws, theories and the ability to assess the degree of reliability of the results obtained using experimental research methods. Contents: Kinematics. Point dynamics. Weight. Newton's laws. Force types in mechanics. Conservation laws. Law of momentum conservation. Continuum mechanics elements. Wave fluctuations.

Physics of Combustion and Explosion
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of the theoretical foundations of combustion and explosion processes and their impact on the environment, assessment of the explosion hazard at various thermal power facilities. Content: theory of combustion and explosion, combustion of hydrocarbon fuels; critical ignition conditions; profile and velocity of the combustion wave, methods of "critical conditions"; combustion and detonation; physicochemical and physical processes and phenomena accompanying combustion processes.

Political Science
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The academic discipline “Political science” forms knowledge of the laws and laws of world politics and modern political processes, explaining the essence and content of the policy of national states, on the basis of ensuring national security and the realization of national interests.

Power System Design Fundamentals
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of students' knowledge in the field of designing power systems, principles and methods for implementing optimal technical solutions in their design. Content: theoretical foundations of a systematic approach to optimize the development of power systems, methods for calculating predicted power consumption and power consumption modes, principles for optimizing the development of electrical networks.

Psychology
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of studying the discipline is to provide scientifically grounded training of highly qualified specialists on the basis of studying the fundamental concepts of psychology management, creating the necessary prerequisites for theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important management problems related to the process of professional development.

Sociology
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course presents general questions of theory and history of sociology, methodology and methods of sociological research, special sociological theories. This course is aimed at shaping the sociological imagination of students, basic ideas about the subject and methods of sociological research, topical problems and sociology branches.

Theoretical fundamentals of Thermal engineering
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: to form the necessary professional knowledge in the basics of heat engineering. Content: laws of thermodynamics and heat transfer issues; theoretical foundations of the technological process to produce electrical and thermal energy; main structural elements of boiler plants and turbines; layout of the TPP technological scheme; fuel combustion and water treatment issues.

Thermal power plants and thermal power networks
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge about the basics of operation and assessment of the reliability of the operation of thermal power plants and heating networks. Content: Energy indicators of a condensing power plant. Energy indicators of combined heat and power plants. Process steam release at TPP. Release of heat for heating. Energy characteristics of TPP equipment. Systems of centralized steam and heat supply of industrial enterprises. Heating equipment of TPP. Operation of thermal networks.

Thermodynamics and statistical physics
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to study the laws and methods of thermodynamics and statistical physics, to form students' knowledge and skills to solve applied problems. Content: Basic principles of statistical physics. Thermodynamics of equilibrium systems. Phase and chemical equilibrium. Fluctuation theory and Brownian motion.Entropy. Thermodynamic potentials. Kinetic equations.

Turbulence physics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Formation of knowledge about the applicability of the apparatus of the theory of turbulence when choosing equations for modeling various hydrodynamic systems, about the analysis of the transition processes from laminar to turbulent flows and the kinematic description of wave propagation in turbulent flows. Contents: Phenomenological description of the phenomenon of turbulence. Propagation of nonlinear waves in turbulent flows. Methods for solving wave equations. turbulent cascade.

Viscous fluid dynamics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of the fundamentals of continuum mechanics, methods for calculating viscous fluid flows; formation of an idea of the importance of viscous fluid mechanics for heat and mass transfer in energy and ecology. Content: Processes of heat and mass transfer in viscous liquids; properties of a viscous liquid; methods for solving the equation of an ideal liquid and gas; Navier-Stokes equations; characteristics of a viscous incompressible fluid; similarity theory.

Нistory of Kazakhstan
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [РК1+MT+РК2+ ГЭК] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to give objective knowledge about the main stages in the development of the history of Kazakhstan from ancient times to the present. Expected learning outcomes: 1) demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the main stages in the development of the history of Kazakhstan; 2) to correlate the phenomena and events of the historical past with the general paradigm of the world-historical development of human society through critical analysis; 3) to possess the skills of analytical and axiological analysis in the study of historical processes and phenomena of modern Kazakhstan; 4) be able to objectively and comprehensively comprehend the immanent features of the modern Kazakh model of development; 5) Systematize and give a critical assessment of historical phenomena and processes in the history of Kazakhstan. During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: Ancient people and the formation of a nomadic civilization, Turkic civilization and the Great Steppe, Kazakhstan in modern times (XVIII - early XX centuries), Kazakhstan as part of the Soviet administrative-command system, Kazakhstan in the world community (1991-2022).

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

3D simulation of fuel combustion processes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge of the physical and chemical bases of fuel combustion, methods for modeling dust-air burners, nozzles for liquid fuels, pulverized coal furnaces and their layouts. Content: Combustion of liquid fuel. Reynolds, Weber, Ohnesorge numbers. Three-dimensional modeling of convective heat and mass transfer. Analysis of heat and mass transfer processes during coal combustion in industrial boilers on the example of Almaty TPP and Aksuy TPP. Initial data for modeling boilers BKZ-75 and PK-39.

Abais Teaching
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form in future specialists the ability to self-knowledge, the use of Abai's doctrine as the basis of spirituality and intellectuality of modern Kazakhstan, the application of their professional knowledge, understanding and abilities through the prism of humanism and education in order to strengthen the unity of the country and civil solidarity of society.The following will be studied: the concept of the teachings of Abai; sources of teaching; components of Abai's doctrine; categories of Abai's doctrine; measuring instruments of the teachings of Abai; the essence and meaning of Abai’s doctrine.

Al-Farabi and Modernity
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim of the discipline: to form students' ideas about the scientific and philosophical heritage of the great Turkic thinker Abu Nasr al-Farabi in developing the world and national culture. Learning outcomes: explain the main philosophical contents al-Farabi's heritage and his influence on the formation of Turkic philosophy; influence European Renaissance.

Automation at thermal power plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to study ways to regulate the main and auxiliary equipment of TPPs in automatic mode using modern IT technologies; principles of operation of automated control systems for technological processes of thermal power facilities. Content: Laws of regulation in automatic systems. Implementation of ACS at TPPs. Structure and functions of process control systems. Information subsystems of automated control. Subsystems of remote input of information and control. Regulatory bodies of thermal power plants.

Computational Methods in Thermal Power Engineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form students' professional knowledge of modern numerical methods for researching applied problems of heat power engineering. Content: introduction to mathematical modeling; methods for solving scalar equations, systems of linear and non-linear equations; approximation; polynomial interpolation; numerical integration; methods for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with initial conditions; methods for solving boundary value problems for ODEs; partial differential equations.

Ecology and Human Life Safety
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form a number of key competencies based on modern environmental management concepts that implement the principles of harmonious optimization of the conditions for human interaction with nature, including in the process of tourist and recreational activities.The following will be studied: the principles of sustainable development, conservation and reproduction of natural resources to ensure the safety of human life, methods for assessing and minimizing risks, protecting against dangers, including during travel, measures to eliminate the consequences of accidents, anthropogenic disasters, natural disasters, environmental protection and rational environmental management.

Energy audit of housing and communal services
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of the necessary methods and means of energy research, energy audit and energy saving; means of controlling energy consumption in the housing and communal services sector. Content: Methods and criteria for energy efficiency. Energy balances of consumers of the fuel and energy industry. Energy balance and energy passport of the building. Regulation of energy consumption. Formation of energy balances and energy accounting. Energy saving in systems of transportation and distribution of thermal energy. Rational use of energy in buildings.

Energy strategy of the enterprise
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: obtaining theoretical knowledge about energy strategy of enterprise, structure of energy economy, methods and means of managing energy costs. Contents: Features of energy management of the enterprise. Energy balance of enterprise. Tools for evaluating the efficiency of the use of energy resources. Features of the development and implementation of the energy strategy of the enterprise. Factors influencing the formation of the energy strategy of the enterprise.

Entrepreneurship
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of practical skills for carrying out entrepreneurial activities. Student able to: use market opportunities that correspond to their interests and abilities; make an initial decision about business; work effectively within the framework of legal norms; evaluate the potential market opportunities of a startup.

Environmental technologies at thermal power plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of professional competencies to ensure the environmental safety of a thermal power plant through the development and implementation of environmental technologies. Content: Interaction between energy and the environment. Legislative base of environmental policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Fundamentals of environmental regulation. Rational use of fuel and water. Environmental risk and economic aspects of environmental protection activities of the enterprise. Atmospheric protection technologies. Technologies for purification of wastewater and soil from pollution.

Gas turbine and steam-gas installations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge about the main design characteristics and energy-saving efficiency of gas turbine and combined cycle plants (GTU and CCGT). Contents: Schemes and cycles of gas turbines and their analysis. Ways to increase the efficiency of gas turbine cycles. CCGT with waste heat boiler. Thermal diagram of CCGT. CCGT modernization schemes Basic schemes for modernization of existing installations at TPPs and CHPPs.

Heat and Mass Transfer Processes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form knowledge in the field of theoretical foundations of heat and mass transfer processes and their use in the process of further study of special disciplines. Content: main theory of heat conduction; thermal conductivity in stationary and non-stationary modes; basic theory of convective heat transfer; basics of the similarity method and modeling; fundamentals of the theory of heat exchange and heat transfer.

Information systems in power thermal engineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of mathematical models, methods and means of mathematical modeling in heat power engineering for solving problems of applied technologies. Content: Basic concepts of modeling reacting flows in combustion chambers. Advantages of theory and experiment in mathematical modeling. Stages of modeling. One-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional models. Non-stationary models. Modern programs for modeling physical processes. Graphical interpretation of results.

Legal Bases of Corruption Control
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form a responsible attitude and the ability to demonstrate in practice the application of the principles and norms of anti-corruption legislation in order to prevent corruption offenses, to form intolerance towards corruption, an anti-corruption culture in everyday life and at the workplace, civil liability. The following will be studied: anti-corruption legislation, the system and activities of anti-corruption subjects, causes and conditions conducive to corruption, anti-corruption policy, international experience in combating corruption.

Numerical methods and computational experiment
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Determination of the mathematical features of the thermophysical problem; selection and justification of the numerical method for solving systems of differential equations describing the thermophysical process. Content: Fields of application of numerical methods. Solution of non-linear equations. Approximation of functions. Numerical differentiation and integration. Quadrature formulas. Methods of trapezoids, Simpson, Newton, least squares, indefinite coefficients, Euler, Runge-Kutta. Cauchy problem. Methods of successive approximations. Methods of forecast and correction.

Optimization technologies for fuel combustion
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge of theoretical and experimental methods for studying the processes of ignition, thermochemical preparation, combustion and gasification of coal using the Paraview software package. Content: study of energy complexes to analyze trends and patterns in the development of energy; numerical methods of predictive analysis of energy technologies; tasks of energy use in heat technology production at the present stage of industrial development; formation of knowledge about the modernization of production systems.

Physical and chemical methods of fuel preparation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge about the main sources of energy for heat generating installations; mastering the methods of analysis of physical and chemical processes during the combustion of organic fuels. Content: Energy sources for heat generating installations. Coal dust. The path of coal supply and dust preparation. Scheme of solid fuel processing at power plants. Transport, storage and preparation of fuel oil for combustion. Methods of gas preparation before combustion.

Physical and Technical bases of Energy Conservation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of future specialists' ability to independent critical thinking and understanding of key concepts of problems and physical and technical foundations of energy saving. Content: The main directions of the energy policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Features and regularities of energy saving. Assessment of energy saving potential. Examples of implementation of energy-saving technologies. Energy-saving technologies in buildings and structures. Principles of rational use of energy and resources. Formation of energy-saving behavior.

Quality Management in Thermal Power Engineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of skills and abilities in the field of providing a quality management system in the thermal power industry, metrological support in the thermal power industry. Content: Basic provisions of the theory and practice of quality management. An integrated approach to quality management in thermal power engineering. The main goals and principles of quality management systems in enterprises. Features of the use of statistical methods of control in heat power engineering.

Regulatory and methodological support in the thermal power industry
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Formation of knowledge, skills, and abilities in the field of analysis of quality assurance problems and methods of application of regulatory and methodological support for energy saving in the heat and power industry. Content: regulatory and methodological support in the heat power industry; quality of thermal energy, products, raw materials, and fuel; tasks and functions of the quality control service; a systematic approach to the use of developing processes of regulatory and methodological support of energy saving at the state and local levels.

Scientific Research Methods
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Objective - to develop skills in cognitive activity in the field of science. To use methods of scientific research for understanding and assimilating information. To be able to describe the object of research. To master methods of search, processing of scientific information, systematization, analysis, synthesis to obtain an objective content of scientific knowledge. To apply analytical and practical research methods and argumentation systems for justification, assertion, evaluation.

Special Issues Combustion
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge of modern methods of combustion of various types of fuel in the furnaces of boilers of industrial enterprises with the highest efficiency, methods for selecting and calculating burners for different fuels. Content: Organic fuel. Heat of combustion. Characteristics and properties of various types of fuel. Composition of combustion products. Theory of combustion. Boiler efficiency. Conditions for stabilization and stability of combustion. Measures to prevent slagging. Maximum permissible concentrations of NOx and SOx in flue gases.

Thermomechanical and auxiliary equipment of power plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of students' knowledge of the general principles, structure and functioning of heat and power systems of industrial enterprises. Content: heat exchange equipment of nuclear and thermal power plants using modern technologies for highly efficient conversion of thermal energy into other types of energy in compliance with the requirements of environmental protection and production safety; methods of design calculations for thermal mechanical and auxiliary equipment of power plants.

Utilization and recycling of waste of thermal power engineering companies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of professional competencies in the field of waste management of enterprises in the heat and power industry. Content: Waste management. Greening production. Secondary energy resources. Waste recycling: reuse, production of new materials and goods from recycled materials, separation of useful fractions from waste and disposal of non-returnable waste, energy generation from burning or pyrolysis of industrial and household waste.

Viscous fluid dynamics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of the fundamentals of continuum mechanics, methods for calculating viscous fluid flows; formation of an idea of the importance of viscous fluid mechanics for heat and mass transfer in energy and ecology. Contents: Processes of heat and mass transfer in viscous liquids; properties of a viscous liquid; methods for solving the equation of an ideal liquid and gas; Navier-Stokes equations; characteristics of a viscous incompressible fluid; similarity theory.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Educational
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Сonsolidation of the received theoretical knowledge, professional orientation of students; familiarization and study of the organization of activity, structure, directions of scientific activity of the department, faculty, university. - use knowledge of physical laws and theories to explain the structure of matter, forces and interactions in nature, the origin of fields; use acquired knowledge in practice and in everyday life;

Pre-diploma
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Aim of the pre-diploma practice: deepening and consolidation of theoretical knowledge gained in the process of learning, the selection and systematization of material for the thesis; writing a thesis; preliminary defense of the thesis. - determine the design features of detectors in low, medium and high energy physics; - organize nuclear physics measurements using nuclear radiation detectors in scientific research, as well as in medicine and other applied fields; - apply theoretical knowledge and research methods in the field of nuclear medicine to organize, establish and maintain the operation of nuclear-physical medical installations; - to distinguish the main types of target devices used for producing radioactive isotopes for nuclear medicine. During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects:As a result of the pre-diploma internship, the student will be able to generate experimental, reference, and regulatory data on products or services needed to write a thesis.

Pre-Diploma
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - TThe objective is form the ability to consolidate the theoretical knowledge, analytical and managerial skills, collecting material for the diploma work. The following will be studied: analysis of enterprises' performance effectiveness, advantages and disadvantages of enterprises, list of partners, agreements, contracts, arrangement of meetings, negotiations, recruitment of personnel, team work.

Production
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Consolidation of theoretical and practical knowledge obtained at the university, familiarization with the organization and production technology, the acquisition of practical skills and professional experience in the field of study. As a result of the internship, the student will be able to study and analyze the necessary information, to carry out the necessary calculations using modern technical means.

Professional (educational) practice
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice is to form the ability to apply in the field in practice their knowledge and skills formed during the development of the discipline "Geodesy", as close as possible to the production conditions of land management. As a result of the internship the student will be able to: 1. use surveying tools; 2. make verification of theodolites, levels, total stations and their installation in the working position; 3. lay theodolite course; 4. make leveling; 5. perform total station survey; 6. to produce laboratory processing of field measurements; 7. make a plan, longitudinal and transverse profiles and other necessary drawings. The practice of geodesy refers to a cycle of training practices. During the practice, the following types of geodetic works will be done: verification of theodolites, levels, total stations and their installation in the working position: centering, horizonting; measurements by theodolite, level, total station; laying of the traverse along the boundary of land use and checking the admissibility of measurement errors; in excess of measurement errors, repeated measurements are made; leveling and checking the admissibility of measurement errors; surveying and manufacturing plan.

Professional (production) practice
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice is to form professional knowledge in the field of the chosen specialty, to consolidate the theoretical knowledge obtained in the disciplines of the directions and special disciplines of the program, to master the necessary professional competencies in the chosen direction of specialized training. The practice is designed to create conditions for the formation of practical competencies.

Data for 2021-2024 years