Avanserte energiteknologier (PET640)

Because of the complex energy and climate challenges that we face today, energy transition towards clean, flexible, sustainable, and affordable energy solutions is on top of the global, national, and local agendas. This resulted in an ever-increasing need for future engineers with more cross- and multidisciplinary educational background and skills.

The objective of this course is to provide the students with the necessary skills and knowledge required for contributing to "global energy transition", and "clean and affordable energy for all" goals. This will be achieved via enabling the students to understand different energy systems and analyze them from efficiency, environmental, and performance perspectives.

NB! This is an elective course and may be cancelled if fewer than 10 students are enrolled by August 20th.

This course provides the general knowledge of energy technologies and systems utilizing various forms of energy sources to supply electricity, and thermal (heating and cooling) demands.

The course reviews the basics of thermodynamics, and simplified heat transfer calculations, as well as useful energy and exergy analysis methods, and applications of diagrams (such as TS, HS and TQ diagrams for systems and component analysis).

The course also deals with some fundamentals of flow and transport processes as applied to energy systems. Application of energy conversion is provided, more specifically in thermomechanical (and turbomachinery) processes in different energy systems, with emphasis on efficiency, environmental impact, and performance. Different design and development trends for various components such as boilers, steam turbines, gas turbines, gas turbine combined cycles, and refrigeration cycles are also provided.

Lectures, exercises, interactive discussions, assignments, self-study, and group work.

Lecture language is English.

MS Office tools and Python (or MATLAB or similar tools) will be used for assignments.