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