Energy Production, Conversion and Storage

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with the help of audiovisual media where concepts, principles and theories are presented in detail. Practical examples and real data that meet all the needs of students are presented, with guidelines provided.

Assessment of students involves the undertaking of individual assignments including the production and hand-in of the respective reports, and oral presentation subjected to questions where knowledge transmitted during the course is also evaluated.

Learning Outcomes

To provide students with knowledge concerning:

- the importance of the energy use on  the human development;

- the basic concepts related with energy conversion, production and storage;

- the theoretical formulation used on the calculation of energy associated with different types of systems (mechanical, chemical; electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, thermal) and the associated analogies ;

- the energy conversion cycles and the energy production systems and plants;

- the energy storage methods.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction: Importance of energy in human development. Main sources of energy. Classifications of Energy.

Energy equations: Identification of potencial and flow variables in various types of energy systems (mechanical, electrical, chemical, thermal, hydraulic and pneumatic). Generalized concept of impedance. Equations of energy and power for various types of systems and analogies between different formulations.

Laws and Effects of Energy Conversion: Laws of Thermodynamics. Lenz's Law of electromagnetic induction. Seebeck and Peltier effects (thermoelectricity). Photoelectric effect. Piezoelectric effect.

Energy Conversion Cycles: Thermodynamic cycles without internal combustion (heat pump cycles) and with combustion (internal combustion engines)

Systems and central power roduction engines and turbines, internal combustion engines, hydraulic and wind turbines, steam turbines, electric generators, chemical reactors, nuclear reactors.

Head Lecturer(s)

Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Y. Demirel (2012) - Energy,Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling, Series: Green Energy and Technology, Springer, 2012, XX, 508 p.

 

E.F. Fuchs, M.A.S. Masoum - Power Conversion of Renewable Energy Systems, Springer, 2011, XIII, 692p.

 

I. Dincer, C. Zamfirescu - Sustainable Energy Systems and Applications, Springer, 2012, XVII, 816p.