SubjectsSubjects(version: 971)
Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Principles of Sustainable Energetics - B218007
Title: Principy udržitelné energetiky
Guaranteed by: Department of Power Engineering (218)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2024 to 2025
Semester: both
Points: 3
E-Credits: 3
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: Pohořelý Michael doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Classification: Chemistry > Environmental Chemistry
Annotation -
The Principles of Sustainable Energetics course provides students with a basic 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 (12.05.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Oral exam

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (12.05.2025)
Literature - Czech

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

Z: Handbook of Energy Storage : Demand, Technologies, Integration. 2. TH Koln, Germany: The Springer, 2019. ISBN 978-3-662-55503-3.

D: Engineering Energy Storage, Odne S. Burheim, Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, 2017, ISBN 978-0128141007

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

D: 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.

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

D: 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.

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (12.05.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Oral exam

Last update: Macák Jan (07.05.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction: resource sustainability and primary energy sources

2. Biomass and waste materials in power engineering, physico-chemical properties of biomass and waste materials, heat production from biomass

3. Combined heat and power (CHP): cogeneration of heat, power, and other by-products from biomass

4. Energy from waste

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

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

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

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

9. Thermal energy storage

10. Electrical energy storage

11. Sustainable resources integration: smart grids

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

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

14. Future directions in energy sector: sustainability

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (12.05.2025)
Learning resources -

Presentations available on the course website - Teams

Literature listed in the course syllabus

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (12.05.2025)
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 (smart grids, energy storage, etc.)

5) Know EU strategy for energy and heat production

6) Assess current technologies harvesting power from renewable sources

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (12.05.2025)
Entry requirements -

Basic orientation in modern energetics trends and interest in its issues.

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (12.05.2025)
Registration requirements -

None

Last update: Pohořelý Michael (27.03.2025)
 
VŠCHT Praha