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Energy Supply Systems for Buildings
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- What the different heating, cooling and electricity generation systems are and what their working principles are.
- How to combine the concept of efficiency with the building’s energy demand to estimate primary energy usage and carbon emissions.
- How cogeneration of heat/cold and heat/power works and how to cope with mismatches between supply and demand.
- What rational use of energy entails in practice.
- How to use load curves from energy demand profiles to decide on the right combinations of energy conversion systems.
Prerequisite
Instructors
Laure Itard
Prof.dr.ir.
TU Delft
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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