361-0321/05 – Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources (AOZE1)
Gurantor department | Department of Power Engineering | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Mojmír Vrtek, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Ondřej Němček, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | English |
Year of introduction | 2013/2014 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FS, FAST | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The subject deals with attributes and ways of utilization of renewable and alternative sources of energy. Students gain basic information in branches utilization of solar, water, wind, biomass energy, utilization of low potential heat by heat pumps. In the framework of the subject there is devoted an attention to alternative sources of energy like fuel cells, thermo-electric generators and so on.
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Summary
The subject deals with attributes and ways of utilization of renewable and alternative sources of energy. Students gain basic information in branches utilization of solar, water, wind, biomass energy, utilization of low potential heat by heat pumps. In the framework of the subject there is devoted an attention to alternative sources of energy like fuel cells, thermo-electric generators and so on.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Another demands for student are not.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Energy: types, sources, transformations, evaluation.
2. Exergy and anergy. Evaluating diagrams.
3. Power engineering, consumption and reserves of energy. Waste energy, waste heat.
4. Co-generation and separated production of heat and electricity.
5. Utilisation of low-potential heat of natural materials with heat pumps.
6. Solar energy.
7. Heat and photovoltaic conversion.
8. Water energy, hydropower stations.
9. Hydro turbines. Tided water energy.
10. Wind energy.
11. Geothermal energy.
12. Biomass energy utilisation
13. Fuel cells. Hydrogen power engineering.
14. Magnetodynamic transform. Thermoemission, thermoelectric transform.
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