Contemporary Energy Plants | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Contemporary Energy Plants (17.M3O411)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Clean Energy Technologies (Year: 4, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Energetika u mašinstvu Process Technics Environment Protection Engineering Termotehnika, termoenergetika i upravljanje energijom
ECTS	5

Introduction of students with contemporary energy plants taking into account general interests and justification of their use from the point of view of energy efficiency increase, supply security, environmental, economic and other conditions.

Acquired knowledge will enable the students understanding of the operation principles of contemporary energy plants and justification of their introduction.

Operation principles of contemporary energy plants with MHD generation, use of heat pipes. CHP plants. Use of gas turbines, micro-gas turbines, Stirling engines, high-temperature fuel cells, ORC, TFC, VPC, Kalina cycle... Absorption and adsorption cooling cycles. Trigeneration and polygeneration-practice examples. Hybrid plants (CSP Stirling, CPV, passive heating and cooling, solar pumps, heat flows in heat storage system).

Lectures, calculation and computer practice, project work and consultations.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
U.S. Department of Energy Washington	A Market Assessment, Prepared for: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy	2003	U.S. Department of Energy Washington	English
CHP Club	The Managers Guide to Combined Heat and Power Systems	2000	Crown	English
Europan Comission	Integrated Pollution Prevent and Control	2003	EU	English