Course detail

Energy Sources and Transformation

FSI-EZDAcad. year: 2007/2008

The course “Energy Source and Transformation” covers the following topics:of: 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; heat pumps for heating, hydrogen fuel cell.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jan Fiedler, Dr.

Department

Energy Institute (EÚ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The student will get acquainted with energy sources in the technical practice, their ecological, economic and energetic aspects.

Prerequisites

Knowledge hydrodynamics and thermomechanics

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The credit: control of the presence at the exercises, self-activity
The exam: written preparation for the given questions folowed discussion

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to familiarise students with fossil and renewable energy sources used in the Czech Republic and in the world, including their transformation to other types of the energy.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The credit requirements: the exercises is systematically controlled, self-activity.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Seymour: Zelená planeta,MF Praha 1993
Gilbert,Large:Konec Evropské éry. MF 2003
Kiely:Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill,1996

Recommended reading

Janotková: Termomechanika,skripta VUT 1995
kolektiv:Obnovitelné zdroje energie,FCC Public, 2003
Kaminský:Netradiční zdroje energie,skripta TU-VŠB Ostrava,2000
Melichar:Malé vodní turbiny,ČVUT, 1998

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B2341-3 Bachelor's

    branch B2323-00 , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jiří Pospíšil, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1 Primary and secondary energy sources, forms, types and transformations.
2 Solid fuels, oil, types and features, reserves, trade.
3 Gas, reserves, usage. Economy usage of the primary energy sources.
4 Primary energy sources consumption in the Czech Republic and in the world. Electric energetics.
5 Heat circulations, analysis, steam circulations, efficiency, realisation.
6 Gas circulations, analysis, realisation. Binary circulations.
7 Combined cycle
8-9 Biomass, energetic potential, burning.
10 Theory and practice of solar power usage.
11 Wind energy, practical usage.
12-13Usage of the water energy, hydroelectric potential in the Czech Republic.

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Přemysl Kohout, MBA

Syllabus

1 Balance calculations of the gas transportation
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