Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
Chemical Engineering (2013) |
Subjects |
EMERGING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2022_23 |
Subject | EMERGING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES | Code | 20695206 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
3 | Optional | First | 2Q |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Introduction. | |
2. Energy: kinds and units. | |
3. Global Energy Consumption. | |
4. Personal inventory of used energy. | |
5. Alternatives to energy sources currently used. | |
6. Energy products from traditional photosynthesis. | a. Fossil fuels.b. Cultures and bio-refineries.c. Agriculture and forestry by-products.d. Energy from industrial and municipal waste.e. Liquid fuels for transportation. |
Anaerobic digestion | Approach to a biobased Natural Gas |
7. Energy products from artificial photosynthesis. | a. CO2Capture and conversion. b. Hydrogen Production. |
8. Energy from the sea | a. waves b. Tides |
9. Geothermal Energy. | a. Earth and temperatures b. Types of geothermal resources c. How Geothermal Works and systems |
10. Energy from the wind | a. Introduction and fundamentals b. Turbines c. Installation and impact |
11. Energy from the sun | a. Introduction: the sun b. Thermal (low, medium and high temperatures) c. Photovoltaic solar cells and systems d. Applications |
12. Energy storage | a. Mechanical storage systems b. Electrochemical storage systems c. Chemical energy systems d. Electrical storage systems e. Thermal storage systems |