Course detail

Alternative Energy Sources

FEKT-MKC-AZEAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course deals with contemporary issues in the field of renewable energy with a focus on description, classification and principles of energy from wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, energy of environment, biomass to energy of atomic nuclei and electrochemical energy. Students will receive information about how to install, use and about perspectives of renewable energy sources. Practical information students will obtain also in laboratory measurements aimed at testing and simulation of parameters of photovoltaic cells, panels and photovoltaic systems combined with accumulators of electric energy.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Křivík, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Electrical and Electronic Technology (UETE)

Entry knowledge

The subject knowledge on the Bachelor´s degree level is requested.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Practice attendance is obligatory
labolatory - max. 40p
final exam - max 60p
Requirements for successful completion of the subject can be specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
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.

Aims

The aim of the subject is to enlarge the knowledge about renewable and additional sources of of electric energy, possibility of their application and future development in this area.
The student of MPC-AZE course is able to
- Explain the importance of basic concepts in the field of renewable energy
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy sources
- Measure and calculate the properties and characteristics of photovoltaic cell or panel, design the simple autonomous photovoltaic system
- Describe the structure and operating principle of solar collectors, focusing collectors and chemes of different types of solar thermal power plants
- List the different types of energy using of rivers, seas and oceans
- Describe the principle of operation of various geothermal power plants
- Explain the operating principle of a heat pump and classify them according to the used source of low-potential heat

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

KŘIVÍK, P.; VANĚK, J., Obnovitelné zdroje energie, elektronické texty (skripta), 2015 (CS)
KŘIVÍK, P., Obnovitelné zdroje energie - Laboratorní cvičení, , elektronické texty (skripta), 2015 (CS)

Recommended reading

Benda. V. a kol., Obnovitelné zdroje energie, ProfiPress, Praha, 2012 (CS)
Vojtěchovský, K., Obnovitelné zdroje energie, FCC Public, Praha (CS)
Dell, R.M.a Rand, D.J., Clean energy, Athenaeum Press Ltd, UK (CS)
Boyle, G., Renewable Energy, Oxford University Press, USA (CS)
Quaschning, V., Understanding Renewable Energy Systems, Earthscan Publications Ltd., USA (CS)

eLearning

eLearning: currently opened course

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MKC-EVM Master's, 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Křivík, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Jiří Vaněk, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Úvod do alternativních zdrojů elektrické energie - rozdělení, popis.
Energie slunce a její využití, fotovoltaické články.
Sluneční kolektory - konstrukce, rozdělení, sluneční pece a sluneční elektrárny.
Energie vody, vodní elektrárny - popis, rozdělení, energie moří - rozdělení, popis a možnosti jejího využití.
Energie země, geotermální energie, geotermální elektrárny.
Energie prostředí a její využití, tepelná čerpadla, rozdělení, konstrukce, popis činnosti.

 

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Křivík, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Úvod, organizace
1. I-U charakteristiky fotovoltaického modulu
2. Vliv stínění na I-U charakteristiky fotovoltaického modulu
3. Hledání bodu maximálního výkonu FV panelu
4. Měření účinnosti solárního komínu
5. Molliérův diagram tepelného čerpadla
6. Topný faktor tepelného čerpadla
7. Optimalizace sklonu fotovoltaického modulu
8. Vliv teploty na vlastnosti fotovoltaického minipanelu
9. Měření teplotních profilů fotovoltaických panelů
10. Vliv změny úhlu dopadu světelného záření na I-U charakteristiky fotovoltaického článku 

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eLearning: currently opened course