Introduction to Energy Technology
• Energy and Power (energy transformation, mechanical energy, electrical, chemical, nuclear, thermal, heat, entropy).
• Sources of energy and uses (input and output of energy, stored energy, production and consumption of energy, energy management, environmental impact).
• Electricity (basic relations, electricity production, power plants, electricity consumption, generation, co-generation of power and heat, energy savings).
• Coal (composition, reserves, production and consumption, transport, emissions and pollutants, advanced technologies, liquid fuels from coal, environmental concerns).
• Oil (production, reserves of crude oil, synthetic crude oil, environmental problems).
• Natural gas (reserves, production and consumption, methane, environmental effects).
• Geothermal energy (geologic structure, heat flow, geothermal reservoirs, installations, domestic heating, heat pumps, power production, environmental effects).
• Nuclear energy (nuclear fission, radiation, nuclear power plants, nuclear wastes, electricity production, nuclear fusion, environmental concerns).
• Hydraulic energy (hydro power, plant operation, turbine types, conventional plants and pump storage, tidal plants, wave energy and sea currents’ energy, environmental concerns).
• Wind energy (available wind energy, theoretical and technical available wind potential, small and large wind turbines, selection of wind farm site, environmental concerns).
• Solar energy thermal (radiation, seasonal variation, heating domestic and industrial water, passive heating of buildings, environmental concerns).
• Solar energy photovoltaic (solar cells and systems, semiconductors, materials of semiconductors, arrays of collectors, environmental concerns).
• Biological and chemical energy (biomass and bio-fuels, photosynthesis, industrial conversion of biomass, burning, pyrolysis, fuel from wood, energy from solid, liquid and gas wastes, environmental concerns).
• Energy future (problems and strategic plans, long term energy solutions with nuclear fission and fusion, solar energy and geothermal energy).
| Semester: | 3 |
| Teaching credits: | 3 |
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