Course Details

Energy Resources

Academic Year 2025/26

NTA035 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Olga Rubinová, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Services

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295924

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