Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Energy (2016) |
Subjects |
EMERGING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2017_18 |
Subject | EMERGING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES | Code | 20735208 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
3 | Optional | 2Q |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
Present Use of energy | Definition of primary sources of energy Recognise several kinds of energy: Chemical, Solar, Nuclear, Electrical power Energy density Comparison of energy contents with some food products |
Petroleum and other fossil fuels | Petroleum qualities Products derived from petroleum: The refinery. Refinery of products from recent photosynthesis : Biorefinery |
Useful statistics of energy | daily energy consumption Hidden Energy uses Potential future renewable energy Personal ways to decreas energy consumption |
Energy technologies different than fossil. Relevance in a future Energy mix | Waves, Tides and Ocean Thermal. Conventional geothermal, deep geothermal. Sugars to ethanol Energy efficiency Solar PV Solar Thermal Wind Advanced Biofuels Synthetic photosynthesis Nuclear, Fision and Fusion |