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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
Sustainable Energetics - M218013
Title: Udržitelná energetika
Guaranteed by: Department of Power Engineering (218)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:3
E-Credits: winter s.:3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 30 / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Pohořelý Michael doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Classification: Chemistry > Environmental Chemistry
Annotation -
The Sustainable Energetics course provides students with a deeper insight into the technical aspects and innovations associated with sustainable energy use. The course focuses on a wide range of sustainable energy sources, analyses their technological aspects and explores innovative approaches to achieving energy independence. Students will learn about modern technologies in the use of biomass, waste, water, wind, geothermal, solar, nuclear sources of energy and energy storage. In addition, emphasis will be placed on technological approaches to the combined heat and power (CHP) technology: cogeneration of heat, power and other by-products. Students will learn about the challenges of integrating sustainable resources into the grid and understand the technical aspects of thermal and electrical energy storage. An important part of the course is also the exploration of carbon capture, transport, storage and utilization technologies (CCS/U) and their role in combating climate change. The course concludes with a look at current topics in sustainable energy, including strategies and policies that support a climate-friendly approach, such as the Green Deal and Fit for 55. Students will be encouraged to think about future directions in energy and to approach engineering challenges related to sustainability in creative ways.
Last update: Pohořelý Michael (19.04.2026)
Course completion requirements -

Oral exam, duration approx. 30 min.

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (19.04.2026)
Literature - Czech

[1] Khan, I.; Sahabuddin, M., Chapter 1 - Sustainability---Concept and its application in the energy sector. In Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Khan, I., Ed. Elsevier: 2022; pp 1-22.

[2] Vujanović, M.; Wang, Q.; Mohsen, M.; Duić, N.; Yan, J., Sustainable energy technologies and environmental impacts of energy systems. Applied Energy 2019, 256, 113919.

[3] Radovanović, M., Chapter 2 - Energy and sustainable development. In Sustainable Energy Management (Second Edition), Radovanović, M., Ed. Academic Press: Boston, 2023; pp 9-34.

[4] Godfrey Boyle, Renewable Energy, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN: 0-19-926178-4.

[5] Alam, M., Chapter 4 - Application of solar photovoltaic for enhanced electricity access and sustainable development in developing countries. In Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Khan, I., Ed. Elsevier: 2022; pp 85-107.

[6] Kabir, M.; Bn, N. S.; Khatod, K. J.; Katekar, V. P.; Deshmukh, S. S., Chapter 6 - Wind energy and its link to sustainability in developing countries. In Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Khan, I., Ed. Elsevier: 2022; pp 135-178.

[7] Kumar, A., Chapter 5 - Hydropower–Basics and its role in achieving energy sustainability for the developing economies. In Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Khan, I., Ed. Elsevier: 2022; pp 107-134.

[8] Shahbaz, M.; Siddiqui, A.; Siddiqui, M.; Jiao, Z.; Kautish, P. Exploring the growth of sustainable energy Technologies: A review. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 2023, 57, 103157.

[9] Kumara, Y.; Ringenberga, J.; Depurua, S. S.; Devabhaktunia, V. K.; Lee, W. J.; Nikolaidis, E.; Andersen, B.; Afjeh, A. Wind energy: Trends and enabling technologies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2016, 153, 209–224.

[10] Burheim, O. S. Engineering Energy Storage; Academic Press: 125 London Wall, London EC2Y 5AS, United Kingdom, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-12-814100-7

[11] Engineering Energy Storage, Odne S. Burheim, Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, 2017, ISBN 978-0128141007

[12] Dincer, I.; Acar, C. Smart energy systems for a sustainable future. Applied Energy 2017, 194, 225–235.

[13] Rehman, U.; Faria, P.; Gomes, L.; Vale, Z., Future of energy management systems in smart cities: A systematic literature review. Sustainable Cities and Society 2023, 96, 104720.

[14] M. D. Aminu, S. A. Nabavi, C. A. Rochelle and V. Manovic, "A review of developments in carbon dioxide storage", Appl. Energy, vol. 208, pp. 1389–1419, 2017.

[15] M. E. Boot-Handford, J. C. Abanades, E. J. Anthony, M. J. Blunt, S. Brandani, N. Mac Dowell, J. R. Fernández, M.-C. Ferrari, R. Gross, J. P. Hallett, R. S. Haszeldine, P. Heptonstall, A. Lyngfelt, Z. Makuch, E. Mangano, R. T. J. Porter, M. Pourkashanian, G. T. Rochelle, N. Shah, J. G. Yao and P. S. Fennell, "Carbon capture and storage update", Energy Environ. Sci., vol. 7, p. 130, 2014.

[16] IPCC. (2021). Assessment Report 6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

Last update: Juklíčková Hana (02.01.2024)
Requirements to the exam -

Oral exam

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (19.04.2026)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction: resource sustainability and primary energy sources

2. Integration of energy sources (flexibility / aggregation / storage). Efficiency of electricity generation.

3. Biomass and waste materials in power engineering, physico-chemical properties of biomass and waste materials.

4. Combined power, heat and other by-products from biomass, heat production from biomass.

5. Energy from waste.

6. Hydro, wind, and geothermal energy, heat pump.

7. Solar energy: photovoltaic conversion, use of solar thermal energy.

8. Sustainability in nuclear power engineering: closed fuel cycle, breeder reactors, SMR I.

9. Sustainability in nuclear power engineering: closed fuel cycle, breeder reactors, SMR II.

10. Thermal energy storage.

11. Electrical energy storage.

12. Carbon capture, transport, storage, and/or utilization: available technologies.

13. Green deal, Fit for 55: SWOT analysis, BREF – BAT, IPCC.

14. Future directions in energy sector: sustainability.

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (19.04.2026)
Learning resources -

Presentations available on the course website - Microsoft Teams platform

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (19.04.2026)
Learning outcomes -

Aim of the course:

1) Familiarize with today's energy sector and current trends in the heating industry

2) Understand basic principles, technological procedures and limitations of power and thermal energy production and storage

3) Evaluate the potential of different sustainable energy sources and describe their current technological, economic and regional potential

4) Evaluate the possibilities of integrating sustainable energy sources into the current infrastructure and describe the technologies that will enable this integration (flexibility / aggregation / accumulation)

5) Know EU strategy for energy and heat production

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (19.04.2026)
Entry requirements -

Basic understanding of energy production processes

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (19.04.2026)
Registration requirements -

None

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (19.04.2026)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 2 56
3 / 3 84 / 84
 
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