635-2030 – Resources and conversions of energy (ZPE)
Gurantor department | Department of Thermal Engineering |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Marek Velička, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student will be able:
- categorize energy resources from different perspectives
- calculate the amount of combustion air and flue gases in the combustion of different fuels
- calculate the heating values and the flame temperatures of the fuel
- determine the excess of combustion air from the flue gas composition
- to compare various ways of energy storage
Teaching methods
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Tutorials
Summary
Development of human civilization and energy. Distribution of energy sources by origin. Primary and electrical energy. Fossil fuels - solid, liquid, gaseous. Mining, transport, refining of fuels. Compressed natural gas. Basic properties of fuels, chemical composition, analysis. Heating values, flame temperatures. Combustion of fuels. Excess combustion air. Combustion control. Energy recovery of waste. Nuclear energy. Energy storage.
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.