635-2051/01 – Sustainable thermal energy management (UNTE)
Gurantor department | Department of Thermal Engineering | Credits | 6 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Jiří Burda, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jiří Burda, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2023/2024 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student will be able:
- define sustainability in economic, social and environmental terms
- recognise the activities of human behaviour that are limiting to the sustainable development of society
- identify the basic technical measures that will help ensure sustainability in the field of energy resources
- understand the instruments of the European Community that aim to achieve sustainable development of society in the field of energy resources
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
The development of human society must have elements of responsibility. One of the pillars for ensuring that future generations can continue to progress is the implementation of the principles of sustainable development. The course introduces students to the issue of sustainability in the field of energy, especially thermal energy. Students will learn what sustainability means, what its social and economic interactions are, the main risks that threaten sustainability are defined, and on the other hand the listener will learn about measures that can eliminate these risks. Last but not least, the course includes an overview of the legislative instruments and economic incentives or restrictions that society adopts with the vision of achieving sustainability.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Written test and oral exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
Attendance on excurions in producing plants.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Sustainability, definitions, insights in the context of meeting human needs, economic opportunities and natural limits
2. Examples of diversity of biological systems and the capacity to sustain it, global threats to the sustainability of biological systems
3. Greenhouse gas emissions and their impacts on human health and biodiversity, other negative impacts of anthropogenic activities on the environment
4. The European Sustainable Society Goals, the Green Deal for Europe in relation to energy management, energy security
5. Primary energy sources, their availability and sectoral consumption, national energy concept
6. Transformation of the use of energy sources over time, thermal energy sources in terms of their sustainability, reducing the negative impacts of fossil fuel use
7. Renewable energy sources, solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, geothermal energy, bioenergy, marine energy
8. Circular economy principles
9. Energy intensity of industrial processes, its assessment and ways of improving its efficiency
10. Energy transformation and storage
11. Economic instruments for reducing the energy intensity of industrial production, emission allowances changing the perspective on energy sourcing and the impact of measures on industrial sectors
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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