The understanding of the energy-environment relation is essential to perceive the meaning of the concept of sustainable development. For that purpose, at first it is intended to provide a look at the World, European and national energy scenarios. The sustainable development and, in particular, the global climatic change issues are discussed, and environmental policy instruments are presented, namely fundamental conventions as the Kyoto Protocol, and documents as the EU Green Paper for Energy. Then, the fundamental concepts of energy, entropy and exergy, together with their interrelations, are analysed and integrated in thermo-economic concepts. It will be also presented several combustibles and energy conversion systems available at present, been also referred the energy saving technologies.
The discipline approaches in an integrated manner the following subjects:
- energy and energy resources;
- energy conversion;
- use of fuels during energy conversion processes;
- energy conversion technologies.
This course deals with planning and operation of energy-related production and consumption units. Therefore, the main goal of this course is to use the knowledge of environmental management, production management, logistics, energy and other established scientific areas in order to analyse energetically different technological processes in the quality of energy consumers and producers.
(choose one of the two following course units)
The course "Energy, Mobility and Transportation" has as main audience target students from Engineering, namely students from the Integrated Master on Mechanical Engineering and the Master on Engineering and Industrial Management. The main objectives of the course are:
- Understand the present situation of the transportation sector in terms of energy and environment;
- Identify the main propulsion technologies (conventional and alternatives) on the different transportation modes;
- Use numerical modelling tools to calculate pollutant emissions and fuel consumption;
- Analyse problems of urban mobility and identify solutions for a sustainable mobility in terms of energy and environment;
- Identify alternative fuels and alternative propulsion technologies.
Specific knowledge allowing the answering to the needs to:
- analyse the industrial systems as an integral part of the environmental systems
- understand the relationship between production, consumption, sustainability and industrial ecology
- understand and apply industrial ecology quantitative analytical methods
OPTION 2:
(choose one of the two following course units)
In the Energy Systems project the students are assigned a design project, which will involve application and acquisition of advanced knowledge on energy, system engineering, design and Computational Mechanics. A presentation and a project report are to be delivered.
The objectives of the course are learning:
(i) the method for modeling system dynamics;
(ii) the use of a computer program for modeling system dynamics;
(iii) elementary tools and techniques for the analysis of continuous systems.
Application procedure is similar to mobility applications, that is, candidates are either appointed by their institutions of origin or the candidate addresses directly the International Office that guides the candidate and contacts the candidate’s institution of origin. Application may be done on paper, by post and by email and is checked by the International Office.
What are the necessary documents?
- application form
- learning agreement signed by the candidate and the institutions of origin
- transcript of records
- photocopy of valid personal identification document (ID card or passport)
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