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Course, academic year 2015/2016
  
Alternative Energy Sources - N218002
Title: Alternativní zdroje energie
Guaranteed by: Department of Power Engineering (218)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2011 to 2019
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:3
E-Credits: summer s.:3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Aim of the course

By the end of the twenty-first century, world energy demand will probably have doubled and possibly quadrupled. There is now a broad consensus that in the long term the world will need to shift to low- or zero-carbon energy sources if the impacts of climate change are to be mitigated.

The aim of this course is to:

1. contribute to improved understanding of the sustainability problems of our present energy systems

2. reflect the remarkable progress in the field of green electric energy methods and technologies

3. seek potential solutions through the knowledge of renewable energy systems, their underlying physical principles, their ecomonics, impact on environment and their integration into world's energy systems

Last update: Jiříček Ivo (05.11.2012)
Literature -

D:Godfrey Boyle:Renewable Energy:Power for Sustainable Future-Second Edition,Oxford University Press,2004,0-19-926178-4

D:Sjaak van Loo, Jaap Koppejan:The Handbook of Biomass Combustion & Cofiring, Earthscan,2008,978-84407-249-1

D:21th Century Complete Guide to Biofuels and Bioenergy, on CD ROM, Department of Energy Alternative Fuel Rresearch,1-59248-279-1

D:Thomsa B. Johansson, Henry Kelly, Amulya K. N. Reddy: Renewable Energy: Sources for Fuels and Electricity,Island Press,1992,1559631384

D:Paul Gipe:Wind Power,Revised Edition:Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business,Chelsea Green Publishing Company;19314981482004

D:James Larminie, Andrew Dicks , John Wiley & Sons:Fuel Cell Systems Explained,2 edition,2003,047084857X

Last update: Jiříček Ivo (05.11.2012)
Teaching methods

lectures

Last update: Jiříček Ivo (10.01.2011)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

1. uspěšné splnění zápočtové písemky v 8. týdnu semestru (minimálně 5 bodů z 11 možných)

2. úspěšné splnění zkouškové písemky ve 13. týdnu semetru (minimálně 5 bodů z 11 možných)

3. při nesplnění jednoho z výše uvedených možnost opravných písemek

Last update: Jiříček Ivo (10.01.2011)
Syllabus -

1. Electricity and magnetism, energy and power, DC /AC, 3 phase systems

2. Alternative nuclear power, fusion and fast breeding reactors, HVTR, GCF, MSR, waste

3. RES, support systems in EU, IRENA, feed-in tariff, economics of RES, pay–back time

4. PV systems, cells, modules, grid connected and off-grid systems, power and energy,

5. PV systems, temperature effect, fill factor, concentrating PV, generating cost,

6. Hydropower,Dams, Low&High Head Plants, Impulse&Reaction Turbines, Small Scale Hydro, Pumped Storage

7. Wave Energy&Tidal Power: Tidal Barrages&Streams, Tidal Current Turbines, Fixed&Floating&Tethered Devices

8. Test 1

9 Geothermal power stations, Hot Dry Rocks, thermal gradient and heat flow, thermal conductivity of the rock

10. Wind Energy: Electricity Production&Environmental Impact, Horizontal&Vertical Axis Turbines, Aerodynamics

11. Bioenergy, transformation through C-R cycle, combustion, combined heat and power CHP,

12. Bioenergy, transformation through gas cycle, gas engine and turbine, fuel cell

13. Integration, grid strengthening, smart grid, micro CHP, hydrogen, electricity storage systems

14. Test 2

Last update: Jiříček Ivo (10.01.2011)
Entry requirements

1. basic knowledge of energy and power,

2. communication skills,

3. keen to learn,

4. skills in elementar mathematics

Last update: Jiříček Ivo (10.01.2011)
 
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