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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Nontraditional Energy Sources

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 361-0352/05
Abbreviation NZE
Course title Nontraditional Energy Sources
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Mojmír Vrtek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Energy: types, sources, transformations, evaluation.
2. Energy transfer, transformation, evaluation.
3. Power engineering, consumption and reserves of energy. Waste energy, waste heat.
4. Co-generation.
5. Thermodynamic heating. Heat pumps.
6. Solar energy. Heat and photovoltaic conversion.
7. Water energy, hydropower stations. Hydro turbines. Tided water energy.
8. Wind energy.
9. Geothermal energy.
10. Magnetodynamic transform, thermoemission, thermoelectric transform.
11. Fuel cells. Hydrogen power engineering.
12. Basic principles of biomas energy utilization
13. Fuel cells. Hydrogen power engineering.
14. Magnetodynamic transform. Thermoemission, thermoelectric transform.

E-learning

http://fs1.vsb.cz/361/vyuka/vrt/AOZE/ - non-public access - the login name and password at the teacher

Literature

GODFREY, B. et al.: Renewable energy. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
452 s. ISBN 0-19-926178-4.

Advised literature

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