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Teaching GuideTerm Polytechnic University Collage |
| Mestrado Universitario en Eficiencia e Aproveitamento Enerxético |
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| Avaliación e Optimización da Sustentabilidade de Sistemas Enerxéticos |
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| Identifying Data | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Avaliación e Optimización da Sustentabilidade de Sistemas Enerxéticos | Code | 770523020 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optativa | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Basic concepts. Sustainable development and sustainability. Primary energy and final energy. Assessment and optimisation of sustainability in engineering: state of the art. | Energy resources and energy reserves. Life cycle of different electricity power plants. Technical and economic comparison of energy options. |
| 2. Main methods for assessing sustainability. Useful computing programmes. | Methods for assessing sustainability. Simple models of sustainability of energy systems. Examples of computing programmes. |
| 3. Case study: assessing the sustainability of energy production plants, renewable and non-renewable. |
Example of sustainability assessment for power plants using renewable energy sources. Example sustainability assessment for power plants using non-renewable energy sources. |
| 4. Methods for optimization in engineering. Useful computing programmes. | Current optimization in engineering. Optimization methods in engineering. Examples of computing programmes.. |
| 5. Simple models of sustainable energy systems aimed to optimization. Conceptual framework, models and methods. | Simple models for optimization of sustainable energy systems. |
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