RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2015/2016
- Teacher
- MIRKO MORINI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- INDUSTRIALE
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- ING-IND/09
Training objectives
- At end of the course the student will possess knowledge about the main technologies for the exploitation of renewable energy sources to produce electricity and heat.
The student will be able to choose among various technologies the most appropriate to the situation being studied and may provide for a sizing of the energy system. Prerequisites
- The student must have basis of thermodynamics and energy systems and machines.
Course programme
- Introduction: renewable and conventional energy sources and conversion technologies, technologies for electric and thermal energy distribution and storage, the electricity transmission grid; sustainability (environmental, economic, social and technological) - 4 hours
Energy markets and incentives: description and mechanisms of energy markets and, in particular, of the Italian electricity market; the incentives for the production of energy from renewable sources. - 4 hours
Biomass and biofuels: an introduction, processes for converting biomass into biofuels (thermochemical methods, biochemical methods, mechanical methods), biomasses for energy, energy systems and their adaptation to biofuels. - 12 hours
The wind power: the distribution of the wind and the anemometry, the Betz limit, wind turbine performances. - 8 hours
The solar source: irradiance distribution, thermodynamic and photovoltaic systems. - 10 hours
The geothermal source. - 2 hours
The hydroelectric systems, waves and tides. - 6 hours Didactic methods
- Frontal lectures.
Learning assessment procedures
- Written exam (2 exercises and 2 open questions).
The exam is passed if it is done properly at least one of the two exercises and if both questions are sufficient. Reference texts
- Cocco Daniele, Palomba Chiara, Puddu Pierpaolo, 2010, Tecnologie delle energie rinnovabili, S.G.E.
Dispense del docente scaricabili da http://www.unife.it/ing/lm.meccanica/insegnamenti/sistemi-produzione-energia
