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Course Datasheet |
| Course | Renewable Energy |
| ACADEMIC YEAR: 2012/2013 | |
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| Credits | 3 |
| Coordinator/Teachers |
Manuel Vázquez |
| Course Area | Electronic Engineering Telecommunications Systems Sound and Image Electronic and Computer Engineering |
| Programmes |
Electrónica de Comunicaciones (Semestre:7) Sistemas de Telecomunicación (Semestre:7) Sonido e Imagen (Semestre:7) Telemática (Semestre:7) |
| Course Syllabus |
Course - Autumm |
1. Competencies
The objective of this subject is to allow the student to develop the following generic competencies:
- Skilled to searching and selecting information, critical reasoning and writing and defending the reasonings within the defined area.
- Skilled for abstration, analysis and synthesis and problem solving.
- Ability to handle specifications, rules and regulations and applying them in the development of the profession.
And the following specific competencies (Ministerial Order CIN/352/2009, were the necessary requirements to be qualified to practice as a Telecommunications technical engineer are established):
- Ability to use different energy sources and especially solar photovoltaic and thermal, as well as the foundations of the electrotechnics and power electronics.
2. Learning outcomes
To develop the skills previously listed above, students must achieve the following learning outcomes:
- Understanding the concepts of energy and work
- Understanding the global energy problem from a social, environmental and sustainability standpoin
- Understanding the different ways to generate renewable electricity : thermal energy, kinetic energy, photovoltaic solar energy
- Knowing the normative related to the different renewable energies
- Knowing different renewable energy technologies which generate electrical energy from kinetic energy: wind power, hydropower, tidal energy, wave power
- Knowing the different elements of a solar thermal installation
- Evaluating useful energy from a solar thermal installation
- Knowing and sizing applications of solar photovoltaic installations
3. Contents
The training activities that will be conducted in this subject are structured in the following thematic units:
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Unit1. |
ENERGY AND POWER |
| 1.1. | Kinetic and potential energy |
| 1.2. | Heat energy |
| 1.3. | Electric power |
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Unit2. |
THE CURRENT ENERGY SYSTEM |
| 2.1. | Historical development of energy consumption |
| 2.2. | Historical development of energy sources |
| 2.3. | Current energy system problems |
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Unit3. |
RENEWABLE ENERGY |
| 3.1. | Concept of renewable energy |
| 3.2. | Brief description of the most important renewable energies |
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Unit4. |
HYDROPOWER, WIND POWER, WAVE POWER |
| 4.1. | The kinetic and potential energy as energy source |
| 4.2. | Hydropower |
| 4.3. | Wind power |
| 4.4. | Energy from the sea: wave energy and tidalenergy |
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Unit5. |
SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY |
| 5.1. | Solar thermal energy |
| 5.2. | Solar thermal systems |
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Unit6. |
PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR ENERY |
| 6.1. | Photovoltaic effect and photovoltaic solar energy |
| 6.2. | Stand-alone photovoltaic systems |
| 6.3. | Grid-connected photovoltaic Systems |
