Department assigned to the subject: Department of Thermal and Fluids Engineering
Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 4.0 ECTS
Course: 1º
Semester: 2º
Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
- Thermodynamics
- Heat Transfer
Objectives
Competences acquired by the students:
- Capability of analyzing the different processes occurring in a power station based on renewable energy.
- Capability of designing a power station based on renewable energy.
- Capability of evaluating the performance of a power station based on renewable energy.
Learning results acquired by the students:
The student should be capable of designing and evaluating the performance of different types of power stations based on renewable energies.
- Ffundamentals of chemical thermodynamics.
- Power cycles used in power plants (Brayton, Rankine, Combined cycle)
- Biomass.
- Solar thermal energy for electricity generation.
- Geothermal energy.
Learning activities and methodology
- Lectures, where the concepts to be acquired by the student will be presented. The student will received the notes of the lecture prior to the class.
- Problems solving by the students
Assessment System
% end-of-term-examination 0
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100
José Antonio Carta González, Roque Calero Pérez, Antonio Colmenar Santos, Manuel-Alonso Castro Gil. Centrales de energías renovables : generación eléctrica con energías renovables. Pearson. 2009
M.J. Moran, H.N.Saphiro. Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics. John Wiley & Sons. 2006
P. K. Nag. Power plant engineering. Tata McGraw-Hill Education,. 2002
The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.
