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New technologies in Energy Generation

Teaching: Completely taught in English

ECTS: 5

Level: Graduate

Semester: Summer

Prerequisites:

Thermodynamics I.

Load:

Lectures	Exercises	Laboratory exercises	Project laboratory	Physical education excercises	Field exercises	Seminar	Design exercises	Practicum
45		0	0	0	0	0	0	30

Course objectives:

Introduction to new technologies for power and heat generation based on renewable energy sources.

Student responsibilities:

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

Written and oral exam.

Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:

Discussions, lectures and occasional homework. New energy technologies in the encyclopedic item that includes renewable energy sources and technologies for their utilization, such as wind energy, solar energy technology production and use of hydrogen, nanotechnology, superconductivity, and other technologies relevant to the transition from conventional to renewable energy and prevent emissions greenhouse gas emissions.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

To investigate the causes of hazardous impacts on the environment. To choose the option that would contribute to increasing of the energy efficiency of the Power Engineering Laboratory building. Furthermore, in the public debate to defend, the stance with arguments. To calculate the potential of wind energy utilization in the area of Zagreb. To rank the energy potential of the Republic of Croatia, with an emphasis on the renewable energy sources. To investigate field of energy storage. To justify the idea of energy storage produced from renewable energy sources, with an emphasis on storing energy into hydrogen: to predict required capacity of hydrogen, to select the type of storage, to estimate the costs. To investigate the number of sunny days in Croatia as well as the potential application of photovoltaic modules for the direct conversion of solar energy into electricity.

Lectures

1. Introduction: Renewable energy sources.

2. Solar energy.

3. PV cells and systems.

4. Economy of solar heat and PV systems.

5. Small hydro power plants.

6. Wind energy.

7. Environmental and Economy characteristics of wind energy utilisation.

8. Colloquy.

9. Hydrogen and fuel cells.

10. Biomass.

11. Environmental and Economy characteristics of biomass utilisation.

12. Geothermal energy.

13. Desalination and other chemical process supported by solar energy.

14. Renewable energy sources marketing

15. Exam.

Exercises

1. Utilization of renewable energy sources in Croatia.

2. Project "Solar house".

3. Guidelines for construction of small, solar home systems.

4. Calculation of heat and power costs in solar systems.

5. Investment calculation for small hydro power plants.

6. Utilization of wind energy in the world: Internet databases research.

7. Investment calculation for wind farm.

8. Internet databases search: Fuel cell in transport.

9. Modelling of a fuel cell.

10. Croatian potential for biomass utilization with comparison to the world.

11. Calculation of energy price from biomass.

12. Economy of heat pumps utilization.

13. Economy of desalination processes.

14. RES marketing strategy proposal for Croatia.

15. RES marketing strategy proposal for Croatia.

Compulsory literature:

Cassedy, E. S. Jr, Prospects for Sustainable Energy: A Critical Assessment, Cambridge University Press, 2000,
Labudović, B., Obnovljivi izvori energije, Energetika marketing, Zagreb, 2002.

Recommended literature:

Reference articles from the scientific journals recommended by professor.