IDENTIFYING DATA

2009_10

Subject (*)

RENEWABLE ENERGIES

Code

205141228

Study programme

Environmental Engineering (2006)

Cycle

2nd

Descriptors

Credits

Type

Year

Period

3

Optional

Only annual

Language

Anglès

Department

Enginyeria Mecànica
Enginyeria Química

Coordinator

SALVADÓ ROVIRA, JOAN

E-mail

joan.salvado@urv.cat

Lecturers

SALVADÓ ROVIRA, JOAN

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General description and relevant information

Study to the abailability of diverse renewable resources to be turned into energy and materials.

Competences

Type A	Code	Competences Specific
		Common
	AC1	Identificar i enunciar problemes ambientals.
	AC7	Identificar els consums no sostenibles dels recursos.
	AC9	Conèixer totes les fonts d'energia, especialment les d'origen renovable, saber com es poden utilitzar, transformar i fer-ne ús eficient.
	AC11	Definir la idea de sostenibilitat i conèixer com s'estructuren i funcionen els ecosistemes per preveure possibles desequilibris dels mateixos.
	AC15	Conèixer eines estadístiques que permetin relacionar diferents variables mediambientals.
		Professional
		Research
	AR2	L’excel•lència en l’estudi i coneixement de l’àmbit de recerca escollit.
	AR3	La realització de recerques bibliogràfiques exhaustives en temes altament especialitzats.
	AR5	La presentació de resultats en format de literatura científica, d’acord amb els estàndards comunament acceptats.
	AR6	L’avaluació crítica de resultats de recerca, pròpia o aliena.
Type B	Code	Competences Transversal
		Common
	BC1	Creativitat. Desenvolupar idees i projectes originals.
	BC2	Flexibilitat. Disponibilitat per a l’adaptació en ambients canviants.
	BC3	Treballar autònomament amb iniciativa.
	BC4	Resoldre problemes de manera efectiva.
	BC6	Actuar amb un esperit crític i responsable.
	BC9	Treballar en equip i gestionar equips.
	BC11	Learning to learn
	BC13	Sensibilitat pel medi ambient.
Type C	Code	Competences Nuclear
		Common
	CC1	Domini de l’expressió i la compressió del/s idioma/es estrangers per al desenvolupament professional derivat del curs de postgrau.
	CC2	Ús de les eines específiques de TIC per al desenvolupament professional derivat del curs de postgrau.
	CC4	Desenvolupament d’habilitats informacionals.

Learning aims

Objectives	Competences
To introduce the possibilities of diverse renewable resources to be turned into energy.	AC7 AC9
To develope abilities for use of instrumental and bibliographical tools.	AC11 AC15 AR3 AR5 AR6	BC1 BC11 BC13	CC1 CC2
To understand the design of projects and methodologies related to the investigation area.	AC1 AR2	BC1 BC2 BC3 BC4 BC6 BC9	CC2 CC4

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
UNIT 1:	Introduction. Energy needs: industrial sector, services, transportation and home. Energy sources. oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear power, renewable energies.
UNIT 2:	Geothermal Energy Application. Geographic placement. Used Technologies.
UNIT 3:	Solar Thermal Energy. Solar Map. Available Technologies. Design for a home use.
UNIT 4:	Solar Photovoltaic Energy. Fundamentals. Types of cells. Applications. Powering a rural home.
UNIT 5:	Energy from the wind. Eolic Map. Wind generators and yields.
UNIT 6:	Hydro Energy. Technology. Present use.
UNIT 7:	Energy from Biomass. What is biomass? Inventory. Combustion. Pyrolisis. Gasification. Biofuels. Hydrogen. Fuel Cells.
UNIT 10:	Project: Integration of renewable energies.

Planning

Methodologies :: Tests

Competences

(*) Class hours

Hours outside the classroom

(**) Total hours

Introductory activities

1

0

1

Lecture

10

10

20

Assignments

10

40

50

Personal tuition

9

0

9

(*) 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

	Description
Introductory activities	Introduction to the subject.
Lecture	Expositive classes.
Assignments	After being introduced to the classical technologies in renewable energies it is going to be proposed a literature search followed by an analysis and synthesis in a specific area of research. This is going to be performed by team work and the evaluation is going to depend on the rapport and on the public presentation / discussion.

Personalized attention

Personal tuition

Description

During the teamwork phase every student will rapport its progress individually or in small teams

Assessment

	Description	Weight
Assignments	The evaluation is going to be based in the rapport from literature search, the public presentation and discussion with the audience. Putting questions to other groups is going to be positively considered.	60 % rapport 30% presentation 10% discussion

Other comments and second exam session

Sources of information

Basic
	Renewable energy its physics, engineering, use, environmental impacts, economy and planning aspects. Bent Sorensen. Academic Press; 2nd edition (May 31, 2000)
Complementary

Recommendations

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