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Course, academic year 2019/2020
  
Alternative Energy Sources II - N218027
Title: Alternativní zdroje energie II
Guaranteed by: Department of Power Engineering (218)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 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
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type:  
Additional information: http://eso.vscht.cz/searchfull/?qs=alternativn%C3%AD&pf=1&pm=1
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc.
Is interchangeable with: B218005
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (11.07.2013)
The course is focused on electricity production from sustainable and renewable energy sources by innovative technologies and seeks potential solutions through the knowledge of renewable energy systems, their underlying physical principles, their economics, impact on environment and their integration into world's energy systems.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (11.07.2013)

Students will be able to:

Analyze processes in the production of ecological green electricity

Balance and optimize basic technologies for solar and geothermal resource utilization

Design a simple photovoltaic system with battery storage for house application

Analyze the levellized cost of electricity from sustainable and renewable technologies

Literature -
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (10.02.2015)

A:Godfrey Boyle,Renewable Energy,Oxford University Press,2004,0-19-926178-4

R:Fuel Cell Systems Explained, by James Larminie, Andrew Dicks,John Wiley & Sons; 2 edition, 428 pages, 2003,047084857X

Paul Gipe-Wind Power,Revised Edition-Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business,Chelsea Green Publishing Company

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

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

R:21th Century Complete Guide to Biofuels and Bioenergy, Dept.of Energy Alt. Fuel Research,1-59248-279-1.

Learning resources -
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (10.02.2015)

B: Renewable Energy Technologies, Long Term Research in the 6th Framework Programme,2002 I 2006, http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/pdf/synopses_res_en.pdf

R: Hanbook for solar PV systems, http://www.bca.gov.sg/publications/others/handbook_for_solar_pv_systems.pdf

R: Introduction to Renewable Energy Technology, A YEAR-LONG SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COURSE by Matthew A. Brown, Lakewood, CO, http://www.nrel.gov/education/pdfs/educational_resources/high_school/re_intro.pdf

Teaching methods -
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (12.11.2012)

lectures

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (08.11.2016)

1. uspěšné splnění písemky v 8. týdnu semestru

2. úspěšné splnění zkouškové písemky ve 12. týdnu semestru

Syllabus -
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (10.02.2015)

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

2. Evaluation by power nad ecological criteria, learning rate of technologies

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

4. RES, support systems in EU, IRENA, feed-in tariff, economics of RES, payback time

5. Pv systems, cells, modules, grid connected and off-grid systems, power and energy,

6. Pv systems, temperature effect, fill factor, efficiency and potential

7. Concentrated Pv and solar thermal systems, hybridization,levelized electricity cost

8. Hydropower,dams, low&high head plants, impulse&reaction turbines, small scale Hydro, pumped storage

9 Wave energy&tidal power: wave fixed&floating&tethered devices, tidal barrage¤t turbines

10. Geothermal power stations, thermal conductivity&gradient, EGS site regeneration

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

12. Bioenergy, transformation via C-R cycle, combustion, combined heat and power CHP

13. Bioenergy, transformation via gas cycle, gas engine and turbine, fuel cell

14. Grid integration, smart meters, micro CHP, hydrogen, electricity storage systems

Entry requirements
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (10.02.2015)

1. Renewable energy sources I.

2. communication skills, keen to learn,

Registration requirements -
Last update: Jiříček Ivo Ing. CSc. (11.07.2013)

Alternative Energy Sources I.

Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 3 84
3 / 3 84 / 84
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Examination test 50
Continuous assessment of study performance and course -credit tests 50

 
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