| Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
| Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Energy (2016) |
 Subjects |
| EMERGING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2020_21 |
| Subject | EMERGING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES | Code | 20735208 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 3 | Optional | 2Q |
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| 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. |
| 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 |
