Course detail
Reenable energy sources
FEKT-MOZEAcad. year: 2012/2013
Wind energy and its utilization, wind power plants. Solar energy and its applications, photovoltaic cells, solar collectors, solar power plants. Energy of water, water power plants, marine energy and its utilization. Earth's energy, geothermal energy, geothermal power plants. Environment energy and its utilization, heat pumps, description. Biomass, its division and use. Energy of atomic nuclei, nuclear fusion, principles, ways to achieve and use, thermonuclear power plants. Additional sources of energy, electrochemical cell, electrochemical potential, electrolysis, electrodes. Primary cells, description, properties and applications.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- Explain the importance of basic concepts in the field of renewable energy
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy sources
- Design a suitable location for wind power plants in the Czech Republic
- Measure and calculate the properties and characteristics of photovoltaic cell or panel, design the simple autonomous photovoltaic system
- Describe the structure and operating principle of solar collectors, focusing collectors and chemes of different types of solar thermal power plants
- List the different types of energy using of rivers, seas and oceans
- Describe the principle of operation of various geothermal power plants
- Explain the operating principle of a heat pump and classify them according to the used source of low-potential heat
- List the distribution of biomass and its use in energetics
- Describe the principle of controlled thermonuclear fusion and thermonuclear power plant
- Explain the importance of basic concepts in electrochemistry (half-cells, cells, types of electrodes, electrochemical potentials)
- Classify and describe the different types of primary electrochemical power sources
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Course curriculum
Wind energy and its utilization, wind power plants.
Solar energy and its applications, photovoltaic cells.
Solar collectors - construction, distribution, solar ovens and solar power plants.
Energy of water, water power plants - description, distribution, marine energy - classification, description and its application.
Earth's energy, geothermal energy, geothermal power plants.
Energy of environment and its utilization, heat pumps, distribution, construction, description.
Biomass, its distribution and uses, environmental aspects. Biomass power plants.
Energy of atomic nuclei, nuclear fusion, principles, ways to achieve and use, thermonuclear power plant - description, future development.
Additional sources of energy - basic concepts, electrochemical cell, electrochemical potential, electrolysis, electrodes.
Primary cells - classification, description, structure, properties and applications.
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Basic literature
Dell, R.M.a Rand, D.J., Clean energy, Athenaeum Press Ltd, UK (EN)
Quaschning, V., Understanding Renewable Energy Systems, Earthscan Publications Ltd., USA (EN)
Vojtěchovský, K., Obnovitelné zdroje energie, FCC Public, Praha (CS)
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