Czech

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Graduate of this course is able to:
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy sources
- Design photovoltaic plants
- Design small hydropower plants
- Perform basic design of energy systems with renewable energy sources
- Discuss and clarify the impact of renewable energy on the electricity grid
- Professionally evaluate the properties of hybrid energy systems

The subject knowledge on the Bachelor´s degree level is requested.
Students must be able to explain and clarify the following issues:
- Structure and the parting of electric power system
- Basic terminology of power engineering
- Principle of power generation

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
Teaching consists of lectures, computer laboratories and practical labs. The communication platform of the course is on e-learning. Students handed over three individual projects and attend for five laboratory exercises. The course also includes two expert excursions.

- one semestral project - 15 points
- one homework - 5 points
- six laboratory projects - 30 points (for each task is an entry test per 1 point - 0.5 is minimum for graduation)
- final exam max. 50 points - practical (20 points) and oral (30 points) part

The necessary condition to get credits is to obtain at least 30 points in evaluated activities.

LECTURES:
1. Introduction to small sources, performance balance, energy potential, photovoltaic systems-Present and Future
2. Proposal for photovoltaic systems
3. Regulators and inverters, internal wiring, control and communication capabilities
4. Fundamentals of EMC, conditions and consequences of connecting small sources with inverters and regulators
5. Accumulation of electricity - types of batteries, function principles, balancing systems, communication and control
6. Solar thermal power plants, thermal energy storage
7. Heat pumps - function principle, heating factor, integration into thermal systems, operating modes
8. Wind power - wind conditions of Europe and in the Czech Republic (wind energy potential in the country), types of wind turbines, electrical and operating parameters
9. Wind power - control of wind power, the effects of WP on power system operation, integration of WP in power system, operation economy
10. Small hydropower plants - operational and electrical parameters, integration of the SHP into the electricity system, energy potential of the watercourses in the Czech Republic, basic distribution of the SHP, basic hydrological calculations
11. Cogeneration units - construction, power supply connection, start cycle analysis and operational characteristics
12. Biomass - the use of biofuels for small power plants, sources of biomass co-burning of biomass, economic assessment systems
13. Energy systems for modern construction, design of energy resources, further development

Laboratory exercises:
1. Hybrid system analysis
2. Operational measurement of PVS
3. Verification of Savonius rotor properties
4. Measurement of HP operating parameters
5. Performance characteristics of power flow controllers
6. Operating characteristics of the inverters
7. Excursions to PVS and WPP or SHP

Computer exercises:
- procedures for data analysis and processing, SMA, Fronius programs
- example of PVS realization, hybrid system PVS + WPP
- GUI in Matlab, creation of graphical outputs
- Semester project

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Introducing students with the opportunities and potential of utilization of small power sources such as solar, wind, hydro and cogeneration systems in terms of sustainable development. Clarify the issue of integrating these sources into power systems and describe their impact on the operation of the electricity system.

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

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MASTNÝ, P.; DRÁPELA, J.; MACHÁČEK, J.; PTÁČEK, M.; RADIL, L.; BARTOŠÍK, T.; PAVELKA, T.; MIŠÁK, S. Obnovitelné zdroje elektrické energie. EFEKT. Praha, České vysoké učení technické v Praze. 2011. 256 p. ISBN 978-80-01-04937-2. (CS)
Mastný, P.; Morávek, J.; Pitron, J.; Malé zdroje elektrické energie, Skriptum, VUT v Brně FEKT UEEN, 2015 (CS)

Gabriel,P., Kučerová,J.:Navrhování vodních elektráren, ČVUT Praha 2000 (CS)
Krbek,J. Polesný,B.: Malé kogenerační jednotky v komunální a průmyslové energetice, PC-DIR, 1999 (CS)
Rychetník,V., Pavelka,J., Janoušek,J.:Větrné motory a elektrárny, ČVUT 1997 (CS)