Course detail
Energy Sources and Transformation
FSI-LZPAcad. year: 2017/2018
The course “Energy Source and Transformation” covers the following topics: primary and secondary energy sources; renewable energy sources; fossil and nuclear fuel; energy consumption in the word and in the Czech Republic; thermal and nuclear power plants - -energy transformation; biomass, solar and hydro power plants; wind energy and wind power plants; hydrogen fuel cell.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Gilbert,Large:Konec Evropské éry,MF-2003
Kazelle,Cenek: Obnovitelné zdroje energie,FCC Public 2002
Recommended reading
Kaminský:Netradiční zdroje energie,skripta TU-VŠB Ostrava:2000
KC Agrawal, Industrial Power Engineering Handbook, ISBN: 0-7506-73...
Kolektiv:Obnovitelné zdroje energie,ČEZ a.s.2003
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme M2I-P Master's
branch M-FLI , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch M-TEP , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch M-ENI , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch M-TEP , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch M-ENI , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch M-FLI , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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Lecture
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2 Primary energy sources consumption in the Czech Republic and in the world. Electric energetics.
3 Solid fuels, oil, types and features, reserves, trade.
4 Gas, reserves, usage. Economy of usage of the primary energy sources.
5 Heat circulations, analysis, steam circulations, efficiency, realisation.
6 Gas circulations, analysis, realisation. Binary circulations.
7 Combined cycle
8 Biomass, energetic potential, burning.
9 Theory and practice of solar power usage.
10 Solar collectors, design, efficiency, usage of the hydrogen.
11 Wind energy, practical usage.
12 Usage of the water energy, hydroelectric potential in the Czech Republic.
13 Multiple Source energy Systems
Exercise
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2 Economic evaluation of the electric energy production
3 Analysis of raising the efficiency in a steam cycle
4 Analysis of raising the efficiency in a gas cycle
5 Balance calculations of biomass usage
6 Calculations of the main parameters of a solar system
7 Preliminary design of a small hydro power station