Identifying Data 2017/18
Subject (*) Evaluation and Optimization of the Energy System Sustainability Code 770523020
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Eficiencia e Aproveitamento Enerxético
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 2nd four-month period
 First Optativa 3
Language
Galician
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Ciencias da Navegación e Enxeñaría Mariña
Enxeñaría Civil
Coordinador
Lara Coira, Manuel
 E-mail
manuel.lara.coira@udc.es
Lecturers
Caño Gochi, Alfredo del
Lara Coira, Manuel
 E-mail
alfredo.cano@udc.es
manuel.lara.coira@udc.es
Web
General description Coñecemento do ciclo de vida dos principais sistemas de xeneración de electricidade. Estudo de aspectos técnicos e económicos.
Análise dos diferentes métodos de avaliación da sustentabilidade.
Traballo práctico con modelos sinxelos de avaliación da sustentabilidade.
Introdución aos métodos de optimización en enxeñaría.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A11 Capacidad para aplicar métodos de análisis de datos para la creación de sistemas energéticos eficientes.
B1 Que los estudiantes sepan aplicar los conocimientos adquiridos y su capacidad de resolución de problemas en entornos nuevos o poco conocidos dentro de contextos más amplios (o multidisciplinares) relacionados con su área de estudio.
B2 Que los estudiantes sean capaces de integrar conocimientos y enfrentarse a la complejidad de formular juicios a partir de una información que, siendo incompleta o limitada, incluya reflexiones sobre las responsabilidades sociales y éticas vinculadas a la aplicación de sus conocimientos y juicios.
B3 Poseer y comprender conocimientos que aporten una base u oportunidad de ser originales en el desarrollo y/o aplicación de ideas, a menudo en un contexto de investigación.
B6 Buscar y seleccionar alternativas considerando las mejores soluciones posibles.
B7 Desarrollar las capacidades de análisis y síntesis; fomentar la discusión crítica, la defensa de argumentos y la toma de conclusiones.
B10 Potenciar la creatividad.
B16 Valorar la aplicación de tecnologías emergentes en el ámbito de la energía y el medio ambiente.
C2 Fomentar la sensibilidad hacia temas medioambientales.
C3 Aplicar una metodología que fomente el aprendizaje y el trabajo autónomo.
C4 Desarrollar el pensamiento crítico

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
To know the main existing methods for sustainability assessment. To be able to apply them by using existing commercial software applications. AJ11
 BC1
BC2
BC6
BC7
 CC2
CC4
To know the main methods for optimization in engineering. To be able to design simple models of sustainable energy systems aimed to their optimization. BC3
BC10
BC16
 CC3

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Os bloques ou temas seguintes desenvolven os contidos establecidos na ficha da Memoria de Verificación. Contido da ficha da Memoria de Verificación.
Assessing and optimizing the sustainability of energy systems. Basic concepts. Sustainable development, sustainability. Assessment and optimization of sustainability in engineering: state of the art.

Main methods for assessing sustainability. Useful computer applications.

Case study: assessing the sustainability of renewable and non-renewable power plants.

Optimization methods in engineering. Useful computer applications.

Sustainability models of simple energy systems and its optimization. Conceptual framework, models and methods.

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech B3 B7 B10 C2 C4 10 15 25
Case study A11 B1 B2 B6 B16 C3 11 34 45
 
Personalized attention 5 0 5
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Oral presentation (using audiovisual material and student interaction) designed to transmit knowledge and encourage learning. Presentations of this type are variously referred to as ‘expository method’, ‘guest lectures’ or ‘keynote speeches’. (The term ‘keynote’ refers only to a type of speech delivered on special occasions, for which the lecture sets the tone or establishes the underlying theme; it is characterised by its distinctive content, structure and purpose, and relies almost exclusively on the spoken word to communicate its ideas.)
Case study Teaching-learning method in which students are presented with a specific set of real-life circumstances and a problem (‘case’) which they must attempt to understand, assess and solve either as an individual or as a group through a process of discussion. Students should be able to analyse a series of facts relating to a particular area of knowledge or activity, and arrive at a rational conclusion, individually, or via a process of discussion within small work groups.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Case study
Description
Professors will help the student for solving theoretical or practical doubts.

The supervision sessions will take place be in the professsor's office, located in his center.

The personalized attention may be performed in the official schedules for that purpose, or in other moments but, in order to avoid unnecessary waiting time for the student, in either case, the date and time shall be agreed in advance through Email or telephone.

The figures related to personalized attention in the Planning section are merely indicative.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Case study A11 B1 B2 B6 B16 C3 Teaching-learning method in which students are presented with a specific set of real-life circumstances and a problem (‘case’) which they must attempt to understand, assess and solve either as an individual or as a group through a process of discussion. Students should be able to analyse a series of facts relating to a particular area of knowledge or activity, and arrive at a rational conclusion, individually, or via a process of discussion within small work groups. 100
 
Assessment comments
To pass the course by the previous system it is necessary to have attended a minimum of 90% of the classes. 

Students attending less than 90% of classes must defend their course works. At this moment the professor will ask questions about these works, related to the contents of the subject, to analyze its real participation in those works and the assimilation of the concepts of the subject.

Sources of information
Basic

Lecturer's notes on the subject.
Complementary

Sustainability and sustainable development.

• United Nations. Our common future. World commission on environment and development. 1st ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 1987, ISBN 978-0-19-282080-8. p. 416.

• United Nations. The Rio declaration on environment and development [Internet]. In: The United Nations conference on environment and development (UNCED); 1992 June 3-14. Rio of Janeiro, Brazil.

• Bouvier LF, Grant L. How many Americans?: population, immigration and the environment. San Francisco, CA, USA: Sierra Club Books; 1994, ISBN 978-0-87156-496-2.

• Meadows D, Meadows D, Randers J. Limits to growth: the 30-year update. 3rd ed. White River Jct., VT, USA: Chelsea Green Publishing; 2004, ISBN 978-1-931498-58-6.

Sustainability assessment for renewable and non-renewable power plants. Sustainability assessment methods.

• Kaya T, Kahraman C. Multicriteria renewable energy planning using an integrated fuzzy VIKOR & AHP methodology: the case of Istanbul. Energy 2010; 35(6): 2517-27.

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methodological challenges in combining scenarios and participatory multicriteria

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• Gómez D, del Caño A, de la Cruz MP, Josa A. Metodología genérica para la evaluación de la sostenibilidad de sistemas constructivos. El método MIVES. In: Aguado A, editor. Sostenibilidad y construcción. Madrid, Spain: Asociación Científico-Técnica del Hormigón Estructural; 2012. p. 385-411.

• de la Cruz MP, Castro A, del Caño A, Gómez D, Lara M, Cartelle JJ. Comprehensive methods for dealing with uncertainty in assessing sustainability. Part I: the MIVES e Monte Carlo method. In: García-Cascales MS, Sánchez-Lozano JM, Masegosa AD, Cruz-Corona C, editors. Soft computing applications for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Hershey, PA, USA: IGIGlobal; 2015, ISBN 978-1-4666-6631-3. p.69-p106.

• Cartelle Barros JJ, et al., Assessing the global sustainability of different electricity generation systems. Energy 2015; 89(2015): 473-489.

Métodos de optimización en enxeñaría. Optimización da sustentabilidade de sistemas enerxéticos.

• B.D. Ripley, Stochastic simulation, Wiley & Sons, New York (1987).

• C.A. Floudas and P.M. Pardalos, Encyclopedia of optimization, Springer, USA (2009).

• F. Rothlauf, Design of modern heuristics: principles and application, Springer, Germany (2011).

• R.L. Haupt and S.E. Haupt, Practical genetic algorithms, Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey (2004).

• A. Aboshosha and Y. Khalyfa, Genetic algorithms theories and applications, LAP Lambert, Saarbrücken, Germany (2012).

• F. Glover, “Tabu search: Part I”, in ORSA J Comput 1989, Vol. 1(3) pp. 190–260.

• F. Glover, “Tabu search: Part II”, in ORSA J Comput 1989, Vol. 2(1), pp. 4–32.

• S. Kirkpatrick, C.D. Gelatt and M.P. Vecchi, “Optimization by simulated annealing”, in Science 1983, Vol. 220(4598), pp. 671-680.

• A. Dekkers and E.H. Aarts, “Global optimization and simulated annealing”, In Mathematical Programming 1991, Vol. 50(3), pp. 367-393.

• Del Caño A, de la Cruz P, Cartelle JJ, Lara M, Conceptual framework for an integrated method to optimize sustainability of engineering systems. Journal of Energy and Power Engineering 9 (2015) 608-615.

Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus
Master Thesis/770523023

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