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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 361-0321/07
Abbreviation AOZE1
Course title Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Ondřej Němček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Energy: types, sources, transformations, evaluation.
2. Exergy and anergy. Evaluating diagrams.
3. Power engineering, consumption and reserves of energy. Waste energy, waste heat.
4. Co-generation and separated production of heat and electricity.
5. Utilisation of low-potential heat of natural materials with heat pumps.
6. Solar energy.
7. Heat and photovoltaic conversion.
8. Water energy, hydropower stations.
9. Hydro turbines. Tided water energy.
10. Wind energy.
11. Geothermal energy.
12. Biomass energy utilisation
13. Fuel cells. Hydrogen power engineering.
14. Magnetodynamic transform. Thermoemission, thermoelectric transform.

Literature

HEINLOTH, K. (editor). Energy Technologies. Subvolume C: Renewable Energy. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. ISBN-10 3-540-42962-x .
ZOBAA, Ahmed F. a BANSAL, Ramesh C. (ed.). Handbook of renewable energy technology. Singapore: World Scientific, [2011]. ISBN 978-981-4289-06-1 .

Advised literature

SORENSEN, B. Renewable Energy. Burlington: Elsevier Academic Press, 2004. 952 p. ISBN 0126561532.