Energy Conversion Systems and Alternative Sources

Scholar Year: 2020/2021 - 1S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Paulo Miguel Marques Fontes Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL L TC THE EL OT OT/PL TPL S Type of classes 3 2 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Theorethical and Practical classes Totals 1 3,00 Paulo Fontes   3,00 Prática Laboratorial Totals 1 2,00 Paulo Fontes   2,00

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

Provide expertise in the following areas:
Key technologies of energy conversion using combustion, combustion, fuels, oxidizers, products of combustion, emissions, flames; major equipment that use combustion to produce heat: boilers, furnaces, motors, turbines, power cycles, cogeneration , fuel cells and hydrogen, biomass and gasification; alternative sources of heat: solar thermal.
Provide the following competencies:
Explain the fundamental principles of combustion systems, heat and electricity production and energy recovery.
Explain the methods and systems for energy transformation.
Analyze and develop small projects in the areas of energy conversion.
Explain the principles of operation of a plant for the production of electricity.
Identify and explain the operation of equipment and technology used in power systems.
Determine the direct costs of energy conversion.

Syllabus

1. Heating Systems and Heat Distribution
Heating systems, production of industrial and domestic heat. Main production equipment of heat. Heat distribution networks.
2. Combustion
Chemical reaction of combustion. Fuels, characteristics of solid, liquid and gaseous. Oxidant, mass fractions and volumetric fractions of oxygen in air. Stoichiometry. Combustion with excess and defect of oxygen. Combustion products. Major pollutants of combustion: origins and causes. Energy analysis of combustion: upper and lower calorific values, enthalpies of combustion and formation.
3. Flames
Premixed flames. Diffusion flames. Speed propagation of flames. Stabilization of flames.
4. Energy Conversion Systems
Heat production systems: furnaces, boilers. Electricity Production. Power Cycles and Cogeneration. Fuel Cell and Hydrogen. Biomass and gasification. Alternative sources of heat: solar energy. Energy efficiency. Gaseous effluents.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

1. Heating Systems and Heat Distribution
Provide the following skills: able to explain heating systems and a process and a system of energy transformation.
2. Combustion
Provide expertise in the following areas: combustion, fuels, oxidizers, combustion products, emission of pollutants.
Provide the following skills: able to explain the fundamental principles of combustion
3. Flames
Provide expertise in the following areas: flames
4. Energy Conversion Systems
Provide expertise in the following areas: technologies of energy conversion using combustion; major equipment using combustion to produce heat: boilers, furnaces, motors, turbines, power cycles, cogeneration; fuel cells and hydrogen; biomass and gasification; alternative sources of heat: solar thermal
Provide the following skills: able to explain systems of heat and electricity production and energy recovery; analyze and develop small projects in the areas of energy conversion; explain the principles of power plant operation; identify and explain equipment operation and technology used in power plants; determine the direct costs of energy transformation.

Teaching methodologies

Lessons
Lectures: lecture method for presentation of themes followed through participatory method of problem solving.
Laboratory classes: participatory method using experiments.

Evaluation:
The evaluation will be performed based on laboratory, work, study visits and two tests during the semester or examination to be carried out at the appropriate time.
Laboratory, work and visit reports will be prepared,.
To obtain attendance is mandatory presence and reporting of tests and laboratory work.

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

The theoretical-practical classes are composed of one part exhibition, which presents the fundamental concepts of the different subjects of the program together with the demonstration of the main results, with the interpretive method, calling for the participation of students, intending students to acquire a overview of themes and their interconnections and a practical part where students apply their knowledge to improve their understanding of subjects taught.
The laboratory classes use the participatory method where students in groups, under the guidance of a teacher, work with specific guidelines in the laboratory to produce a report at the end.

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