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Sustainable thermal energy management

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-3060/01
Abbreviation UNTE
Course title Sustainable thermal energy management
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Marek Velička, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction
2. Sustainability, definition, overview of the issue in the context of meeting human needs, economic possibilities and natural limits
3. Examples of diversity of biological systems and its sustainability capacity, global threats to the sustainability of biological systems
4. European goals of a sustainable society, the Green Deal for Europe in relation to energy management, energy security
5. Primary energy sources, their availability and sectoral consumption, state energy concept
6. Transformation of the use of energy sources over time, thermal energy sources from the perspective of their sustainability, reducing the negative impacts of the use of fossil fuels
7. Principles of the circular economy
8. Energy intensity of industrial processes, its assessment and possibilities for improving its efficiency
9. Economic tools for reducing the energy intensity of industrial production, emission allowances, a change in the perspective on securing energy sources and the impacts of measures on industrial sectors
10. Thermal energy management in the municipal sphere. Heating of buildings – types of heating, heat and fuel consumption in heating buildings.
11. Heat losses of buildings – losses through walls and ventilation. Principles of designing structures and buildings in terms of thermal properties. Possibilities of reducing costs for heating, insulation of buildings.
12. Categorization of heat sources – principles of combined heat and electricity production, heat pump heating systems, types of heating systems.
13. Local heating – heating options – underfloor, radiant, infrared, hot air. Solar thermal systems for heat production, types of collectors.

E-learning

Study supports in the E-learning system.

Literature

[1] SUEYOSHI, T., GOTO, M. Environmental assessment on energy and sustainability by data envelopment analysis. Hoboken: Wiley, 2018. Wiley series in operations research and management science. ISBN 978-1-118-97934-1 .
[2] ODUM, H., T. Environment, Power and Society for the Twenty-First Century: The Hierarchy of Energy. Columbia University Press. 2007. ISBN 9780231128872 .
[3] GRAEDEL, T. E., a ALLENBY, B. R. Industrial ecology and sustainable engineering. Prentice Hall, 2010. ISBN 0136008062 .

Advised literature

[1] DYRHAUGE, H. a KURZE, K. Making the European Green Deal work: EU sustainability policies at home and abroad. Routledge studies on the governance of sustainability in Europe. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. ISBN 978-1-032-16070-2.
[2] BERGE, B. The ecology of building materials. Second edition. Oxford: Architectural Press, (2009). ISBN 978-1-85617-537-1 .
[3] LIN, B. Ch., ZHENG, S. Environmental economics and sustainability. Online. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. ISBN 978-1-119-32822-3 .