Course Details
Energy Resources
Academic Year 2024/25
XT001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Energy sources found on Earth (non-renewable energy, renewable energy, primary energy, fuel)
2. Energy conception of buildings (heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, hot water)
3. Simplified determination of energy consumption in buildings
4. Production and distribution of electrical energy, electricity grid, electrical connections
5. Production of electricity from renewable sources – photovoltaic power plant
6. Supply of fuel gas, types of fuel gases and their sources, storages, distribution (including connections)
7. District heating - heat source. Ecological aspects of combustion processes
8. District heating - heat and transfer stations (including connections)
9. Application of renewable energy for heating and production of hot water
10. Production of cold in buildings, district cooling
11. The spatial arrangement of utilities. Collectors for piping distribution.
12. Energy certificate of building
13. Energy audit of building
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. The carbon trace
2. Energy concept of a specific building
3. Energy consumption for heating and cooling
4. Design the connection of devices to the transmission system or distribution system
5. Simplified evaluation method of PV modules
6. Documentation for the implementation of gas connection
7. Predicted concentrations of pollutants from heat sources
8. Heat transfer station - a simplified scheme
9. Design of thermal solar system for the production of heat for hot water
10. Cold production and distribution scheme
11. Design of collector for piping distribution
12. The energy certificate of the building – analysis
13. Check of exercises and credit