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Utilisation of Energy Sources

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Course Unit Code361-0358/11
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type A
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
JAN13Ing. Radim Janalík, CSc.
Summary
Students become familiar with basic knowledge considering energy significance
for mankind, ways of gaining, utilization and transformation of various types
of energy. The students will come by knowledge about the most utilized energy
sources in present, about future possibilities and about consumption of energy
sources in global and in the Czech republic.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Speading of knowledge :
- importance and requirements of energy for population
- energy consumption in the world and in CR (actual, histiric trend and view for the future
- manners and possibilities of energy needs supply in the world and in CR
- characteristic parameters of various energy source
Course Contents
1. Introduction of Subject, Units in Energetics, Term of Energy
2. Kind of Energy and Transformation of energy (Type, Efficiency of Transformation, Utilization)
3. Energy and Society, development of energy consumption in the World, Scenario to y.2050
4. Primary Energy Sources (history, future in Czech Republic and in the World
5. Electric energy in the World and in Czech Republic
6. Kind of Fossil Fuels, Parameters (Solid, Liquid, Gaseos), Sources and Utilization of Fossil Fuels in the World and in ČR
7. Fossil Fuels (Division, World sources, Consumption, Transport, Utilization for Energetics)
8. Rewfinement of Fossil fuels (Carbonisation, Gasification, Liquefaction of coal)
9. Liquid fuels (sources, consumption, transport, energy utilization)
10. Gaseous fuels (sources, consumption, transport, energy utilization)
11. Combustion Equipment, Types of Boilers, Ekology of Fossil fuels utization
12. Clean Coal Technologies (Efficiency Improvement, Steam-Gas Units, Supercritical Units, Pressurized Fluidized Bed Boilers etc.)
13. Renewable and Nontraditional Energy sources.
14. Nuclear energy (history and utizatioun in Czech Republic and in the World)
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
www.mpo.cz/cz/energy-and-raw-materials/
www.cez.cz
www.eia.gov
www.iea.org
Aktualizace státní energetické koncepce ČR, prosinec 2014
www.mpo.cz/cz/energetika-a-suroviny/
www.cez.cz
www.eia.gov
www.iea.org
Recommended Reading:
IEA - Key World Energy Statistics 2016
IEA - International Energy outlook, 2010
European Commission - World Energy Technology Outlook - 2050
IEA - World Energy Outlook, 2008

IEA - Key World Energy Statistics 2016
IEA - International Energy outlook, 2010
European Commission - World Energy Technology Outlook - 2050
IEA - World Energy Outlook, 2008

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Other activities
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit30 15
        ExaminationExamination70 21