Event

Thermal Turbomaschinery - In the first part of the lecture deals with energy systems. Questions regarding global energy resources and their use, especially for the generation and provision of electrical energy, are addressed. Common fossile and nuclear power plants for the centralized supply with electrical power as well as concepts of power-heat cogeneration for the decentralized electrical power supply by means of block-unit heat and power plants, etc. are discussed. Moreover, the characteristics and the potential of renewable energy conversion concepts, such as wind and hydro-power, photovoltaics, solar heat, geothermal energy and fuel cells are compare and evaluated. The focus is on the description of the potentials, the risks and the economic feasibility of the different strategies aimed to protect resources and reduce CO2 emissions.

The students are able to:

• discuss and evaluate energy resources and reserves and their utility
• review the use of energy carriers for electrical power generation
• explain the concepts and properties of power-heat cogeneration, renewable energy conversion and fuel cells and their fields of application
• comment on and compare centralized and decentralized supply concepts
• calculate the potentials, riskis and economic feasibility of different strategies aiming at the protection of resources and the reduction of CO2 emissions
• name and judge on the options for solar energy utilization
• discuss the potential of geothermal energy and its utilization