Type A
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Code |
Competences Specific |
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Professional |
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AP1 |
A1.1. Formulate strategies to collate data for the design and application of conceptual and calculation models aimed at improving understanding of complex systems of engineering and environmental management. |
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AP2 |
A1.2. Analyze the dynamic interactions in complex systems in the environment and general surroundings. |
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AP4 |
A1.4. Apply the best tools, management strategies and/or design processes from the point of view of sustainability. |
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AP5 |
A2.1. Learn and apply the latest and most innovative environmentally friendly technologies to solve environmental problems in various fields such as the chemical and food industries. |
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AP6 |
A2.2. Manage complex technical or professional projects. |
Type B
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Code |
Competences Transversal |
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Professional |
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BP1 |
B1.1. Communicate and discuss proposals and conclusions in a clear and unambiguous manner in specialized and non-specialized multilingual forums. |
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BP2 |
B1.2. Adapt to a changing environment. |
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BP6 |
B3.1. Work in a team with responsibilities shared among multidisciplinary, multilingual and multicultural teams. |
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BP7 |
B4.1. Show commitments to an attitude of continuous learning |
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BP8 |
B4.2. Learn autonomously and with initiative. |
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BP9 |
B5.1. Work autonomously, responsibly and with initiative in a research and innovation context. |
Type C
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Code |
Competences Nuclear |
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Common |
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CC1 |
Have an intermediate mastery of a foreign language, preferably English |
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CC2 |
Be advanced users of the information and communication technologies |
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CC3 |
Be able to manage information and knowledge |
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CC4 |
Be able to express themselves correctly both orally and in writing in one of the two official languages of the URV |
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CC5 |
Be committed to ethics and social responsibility as citizens and professionals |
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CC6 |
Be able to define and develop their academic and professional project |
Objectives |
Competences |
Know energy conversion systems including renewable energy, cogeneration, trigeneration and distributed generation. |
AP4 AP5
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BP1 BP2 BP8 BP9
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CC1 CC2 CC3 CC5
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Capability to evaluate systems considering energy consumption, environmental impact and economics. |
AP1 AP2 AP6
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BP1 BP6 BP7 BP9
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CC1 CC2 CC3 CC5
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Apply process integration using Pinch methodology en the design of heat exchanger networks in order to improve the energy efficiency of processes and to reduce their environmental impact. |
AP1 AP2 AP5
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BP6 BP7 BP8
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CC1 CC2 CC3
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Integrate the adquired knowledge in the elaboboration of feasibility projects. |
AP1 AP2 AP4 AP5 AP6
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BP1 BP2 BP6
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CC1 CC2 CC3 CC5 CC6
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Ability to integrate energy conversion systems efficiently in industrial processes. |
AP1 AP2 AP4 AP5 AP6
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BP1 BP2 BP6 BP7 BP8 BP9
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CC1 CC2 CC3 CC4 CC5 CC6
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Topic |
Sub-topic |
Energy resources: renewables and non renewables |
Description
Tecnologies
Aplications |
Energy transformation, combustion, co- and trigeneration, distributed generation, integration of renewables. |
Tecnologies
Energetic and economic evaluation |
Energy use, steam distribution systems, refrigeration, industrial applications |
Description
Tecnologies
Aplications |
Process integration and heat exchanger networks, Pinch methodology. |
Composite curves, problem table and gran composite curve.
Heat exchanger network
Integration of heat engines and heat pumps |
Methodologies :: Tests |
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Competences |
(*) Class hours |
Hours outside the classroom |
(**) Total hours |
Introductory activities |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
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Lecture |
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10 |
10 |
20 |
Seminars |
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10 |
12 |
22 |
Project proposal |
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0 |
14 |
14 |
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms |
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10 |
0 |
10 |
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Personal tuition |
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0 |
2 |
2 |
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Mixed tests |
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3 |
3 |
6 |
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(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher. (**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies
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Description |
Introductory activities |
Presentation of the course |
Lecture |
Exposition of the contents of the course |
Seminars |
Seminars on specific topics. |
Project proposal |
Projects achieved in small teams on open end problems and feasibility projects. |
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms |
Resolution of problems and exercises using specific software. Formulation, analysis, resolution and discussion of problems related with topics of the course. |
Personal tuition |
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Project proposal |
Practicals using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in computer rooms |
Personal tuition |
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Description |
Assistence in the solution of problems and projects. Office hours in the office of the professor, by e-mail or the Moodle. |
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Description |
Weight |
Project proposal |
Achievement in teams. |
40% |
Mixed tests |
Individual exam. Short conceptual question and solution of problems. Minimum mark 4.0.
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50% |
Others |
Participació en clase |
10% |
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Other comments and second exam session |
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Basic |
Martin Kaltschmitt, Wolfang Streicher, Andreas Wiese, Renewable energy : technology, economics and environment, Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, 2007
Boyce, Meherwan P., Handbook for cogeneration and combined cycle power plants, New York [etc.] : ASME Press, 2002
Warwickshire : Institution of Chemical Engineers, A User guide on process integration for the efficient use of energy, , 1982
, Material in the Moodle, ,
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Complementary |
Aldo Vieira da Rosa, Fundamentals of renewable energy processes, 2nd ed., Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, 2009
Wulfinghoff, Donald , Energy efficiency manual : for everyone who uses energy, pays for utilities, controls energy usage, designs and builds, is interested in energy and environmental preservation , Wheaton, Maryland : Energy Institute Press , 1999
Jutglar i Banyeras, Lluís, Cogeneración de calor y electricidad, Barcelona : Ceac, 1996
, Engineering Equation Solver (EES) , ,
Godfrey Boyle, Bob Everett and Janet Ramage, Energy systems and sustainability, Oxford University Press in association with the Open University, 2003
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(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation. |
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