Sustainable Energy: Design a Renewable Future

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Syllabus

Week 1: Definition of Energy Use
The use of energy in transport, building and manufacturing.

Week 2: Generation of Renewable Energy
How much can you generate from all the different sources?

Week 3: Energy Balances
How can you analyse energy and what are the climate effects?

Week 4: Policies for Sustainable Energy
How to stimulate the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency?

Week 5: Wind Energy
Technologies to generate energy from wind

Week 6: Solar Energy
Technologies to generate Energy with photovoltaic systems

Week 7: Biomass
Technologies to generate energy from biomass

Week 8: Electrical Power System
How to integrate renewable energy in de Electrical Power System

Week 9: Storage
How to store energy?

Prerequisite

Knowledge of high-school level of physics (mechanics, thermodynamics) and mathematical skills, such as integration and differentiation, are preferred.

Instructors

Arno Smets
Prof. Dr. Ir.
Delft University of Technology

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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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