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Secondary Energy Sources

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 635-3010/02
Abbreviation DEZ
Course title Secondary Energy Sources
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Adéla Macháčková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Table of energetic sources. Basic characteristic and classification of secondary energetic sources.
2. Definition and meaning of secondary energetic sources in relationship with the energy policy of CZ and EU.
3. Technical – economical parameters of utilization this sources in industrial area. Division the secondary energy sources.
4. Secondary fuels – occurrence, technical parameters and utilization in plant energy system.
5. Fuels storage – according to fuel type. Design of reservoirs.
6. Secondary heat - utilization the enthalpy of exhaust/fuel gases using the exhaust-heat boilers and gas turbines. Design and thermal characteristics of these units, unit types and unit recovery.
7. Low-potentials heat – utilization of heat pumps. Thermodynamics, designs, types, utilization.
8. Secondary chill - cooling water and its utilization. Cooling elements. Techniques of cooling – by water, by expansion, through the evaporation, through the matters with higher boiling point. Comparison the techniques.
9. Utilization the enthalpy of metal – in blast-furnaces and metallurgical plants. Metal heating. Designs of heating furnaces.
10. Utilization the coke – methods, advantages and disadvantages.
11. Utilization the slag – methods, advantages and disadvantages.
12. Secondary pressure. Utilization the overpressure. Expansion turbines. Design and technical parameters.
13. Now-a-days technology uses secondary sources. Microturbine. Stirling engine. Utilization the secondary sources in CHP.
14. Demonstration the utilization of secondary sources.

Literature

Energy strategy for Europe. [online]. 2013. [cit. 20013-01-31]. Dostupné z <http://ec.europa.eu/energy/index_en.htm>

Advised literature

EU Energy in Figures. 1. Vydání. Luxembourg : P ublications Office of the European Union. Luxembourgh, 2012. 228 pp. ISBN 978-92-79-22556-7 .