Renewable Sources of Energy

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	361-0952/03
Abbreviation	OZE_D
Course title	Renewable Sources of Energy
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Mojmír Vrtek, 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.
5. Thermodynamic heating, heat pumps, heat pipes.
6. Solar energy. Heat and photovoltaic conversion.
7. Water energy, hydropower stations. Hydro turbines. Tided water energy.
8. Wind energy.
9. Geothermal energy.

Literature

GODFREY, B. et al. Renewable energy. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. 452 s. ISBN 0-19-926178-4.
VRTEK, M. Renewable Sources in Energy Systems. Tarnów : TANT Publishers, 2009. 104 s. ISBN 978–83–928990–0–6.

Advised literature

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

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