SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: FRANCESCO NOCERAExpected Learning Outcomes
Provide students with basic knowledge of sustainable energy conversion technologies for industry and their environmental impact.
Course Structure
Lectures and practical classes
Required Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Thermodynamics and Thermophysics. Fundamental principles and technologies for the production of heat and cold, mechanical energy and electrical energy. Combustion processes and technologies
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance of lessons is mandatory
Detailed Course Content
- First Law & Applications
- Ideal Gas and Adiabatic equation
- Second Law
- State Diagrams
- Combustion
- Boilers
- Steam Power Plants
- Gas Power Plants
- Internal Combustion Engines
- Reversed Cycles
- Cryogenic Cycles
- Heat Pumps
- Environmental Impact of Energy Systems
- Heat Transfer
- Heat exchangers
- Advanced Energy Systems
- Cogeneration
- Renewable Energies Systems
Textbook Information
reference book:
- Lecture notes: Sustainable Energy Systems
- Mehmet Kanoglu, Yunus A. Cengel Fundamentals And Applications Of Renewable Energy Macgraw hill 2019
- Yunus A. Cengel, Michael A. Boles Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, Macgraw hill 2019
- Dincer-Zamfirescu: Sustainable Energy Systems and applications. Springer 2011
- Kanoglu- Cengel-Dincer: Efficiency evaluation of Energy Systems, Springer 2012
- Alireza Bahadori: Pollution Control in Oil, Gas aand chemical Plants : Springer Verlag 2014
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics | lecturer's notes |
2 | Combustion processes and pollutant emission | lecturer's notes |
3 | Energy Systems | lecturer's notes |
4 | Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer | lecturer's notes |
5 | Boilers, Steam Generators and Heat Exchangers design | lecturer's notes |
6 | Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems | lecturer's notes |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
multiple choice test. Elements to be evaluated: relevance of the answers, quality of their contents, ability to connect with other topics within the program, ability to report examples, quality of technical language, and overall expressive ability.
To guarantee equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, students can request a meeting in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measure, according to the educational goals and specific needs. In this case, it is advisable to contact the CInAP (Centre for Active and Participated Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or SLD) professor of the Department where the Degree Course is included
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Examples are reported on www.unict.studium.it