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FEKT-BPC-EEEAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course informs about the basic theory of the environment and the ecology and the economy basics in the power engineering. The power engineering is closely related to the economy and the environment. In all power engineering-related areas, environmental and economic aspects can be identified. In connection with power engineering it identifies the main problems of the environment and presents methods and means of environmental protection and also shows corresponding laws etc. The course presents the basics of financial mathematic and the issues of the costs and the evaluation of the effectiveness of investments and others, which are the basis for understanding the connections between economy, ecology and power engineering.Due to the innovation of curriculum, this subject was formed from previously separate - seemingly unrelated - subjects. For these historical reasons, the subject is partially taught as two separate issues, but there are efforts applied to interconnect individual chapters of both subjects.In this course, the focus is on mastering the basics of financial mathematics that are fundamental for all other economic-energy calculations. Knowledge of issues such as interest rates, discounting and time value of money is crucial for understanding as well as successful completion of economic subjects in the master studies. Similarly, it is important to learn the basic rules and principles of ecological thinking and connections between ecology and power engineering.In this course, emphasis is placed on both the numerical exercises in which students learn various methods of financial techno-environmental calculations, and the exercises and computer laboratories where the series of practical exercises and case studies, contributing to a better understanding of the topic, are solved.
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1. Fundamentals of environmental theory (definition and division of ecology, sustainable development, ecological factors, Liebig's law of minimum, Shalford's law of tolerance, ecosystems and their division, impact of energy on the environment, primary energy extraction, risks of energy technologies).2. Air Protection and Particulate Pollutants (air pollutants and their distribution, emissions, immissions, limits, REZZO, IRZ, measures against particulate air pollution, separation principles, characteristics of separators, mechanical separators, cyclones, construction, use, filters, electric separators)3. Flue gas desulphurisation (basic principle, scheme, characteristics of dry, semi-dry and wet desulphurisation methods)4. NOx reduction in flue gases (primary and secondary measures, selective catalytic reduction, selective non-catalytic reduction), basic methods of CO2 reduction, greenhouse effect.5. Noise (definition, basic acoustic quantities, equivalent levels, elimination options and their detailed description, noise propagation, noise emissions and limits, noise maps), non-ionising radiation (definition and reference values, non-ionising radiation in the energy sector, impact on humans). 6. Radioactive waste (basic categories of waste, radioactive waste in the energy sector and its characteristics, waste management systems, facilities for its recovery and disposal) and ionizing radiation (definition, distribution of sources of ionizing radiation, properties of individual types of radiation and the principle of their shielding, explanation of the terms - activity, dose, dose equivalent, radioactivity), 7. Waste from energy industry and other important non-nuclear energy wastes, methods of utilization of produced wastes, incinerators and energy recovery of municipal waste (technological process, advantages, ecological limits), wastewater treatment plants (process scheme, mechanical, biological, tertiary treatment). 8. Fundamentals of financial mathematics (time value of money, simple, compound and combined interest, pre- and post- maturity methods of calculating interest, definition of interest earner, de-interest earner, settlor, funder, provider and redeemer).9. Profits and expenses (cost and income streams, cash flow, accounting standards, assets, liabilities).10. Investment decision (static and dynamic methods of evaluating the efficiency of investments, explanation of the concepts of net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR). 11. Investment decision (cost benefit analysis, profitability index, average cost method, etc.). 12. Calculation (definition and division of calculations, calculation methods, cost price, turning point, ABC method).13. Basic financial reporting (income statement, difference between accounting and tax depreciation, tax depreciation straight-line, accelerated depreciation).
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1. Calculations of pollutant emissions.2. Calculations of noise emissions from point sources.3. Ionising radiation calculations.4. Interest calculations (simple, compound, combined).5. Fixed asset depreciation calculations - straight line depreciation.6. Fixed asset depreciation calculations - accelerated depreciation.7. NPV, IRR and PI calculations.8. Average annual cost method.9. Discounted cost method.
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1. Use of software tools for solving financial mathematics tasks. 2. Evaluation of investment efficiency and financial analysis.
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1. Detection and evaluation of ionizing radiation.2. Evaluation of noise conditions (internal and external levels).