ENERGY SYSTEMS

The course provides students with fundamental knowledge for understanding, analyzing, and designing renewable energy systems, playing a key role in the academic curriculum by offering a technical-scientific foundation related to the energy transition.

- Knowledge
Understanding of the scientific, technical, economic, and regulatory foundations related to the exploitation of renewable energy sources in various applications.
Comprehension of the fundamental elements for the design of renewable energy systems.
Development of critical awareness of the multidisciplinary context in which the design and analysis of renewable energy systems take place.
- Skills
Ability to carry out basic design for renewable energy systems, including solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, and lignocellulosic biomass plants.
Execution of an energy production analysis for each type of system, aimed at system sizing.

Knowledge of applied thermodynamics, heat transfer, and physics.

- Primary energy sources: general overview, national and global energy statistics, sustainability. Potential of renewable energy sources and related technical and economic challenges for their exploitation.
- Solar radiation: theoretical principles, measurement, and modeling.
- Photovoltaic solar energy: theory, components, and energy production potential.
- Solar thermal technologies: solar collectors and system sizing.
- Wind energy: availability, exploitation, technology, and energy production potential.
- Geothermal energy: high-temperature systems (theory and plants); neutral-temperature geothermal energy (GCHP): principles, technologies, and geothermal probes.
- Concentrated solar power (CSP) and solar cooling.
- Energy from lignocellulosic biomass: technologies and applications.
- Hydropower: small-scale plants.
- Wave and tidal energy.

Material made available by the professor

The exam consists of two written tests: a numerical exercise lasting approximately 60 minutes and a theoretical written test with open-ended questions (approximately 60 minutes).

written

28-30L: Mastery of the topics covered in lectures and provided materials; ability to prioritize information effectively; use of appropriate technical terminology. Correct execution of the exercise and correct use of units of measurement.

26-27: Good knowledge of the topics covered in lectures; reasonable ability to structure and present information; familiarity with technical terminology. Mostly correct execution of the exercise and correct use of units of measurement.

22-25: Knowledge of the topics covered in lectures is not always in-depth; occasional misuse of technical terminology; answers contain inaccuracies.

18-21: Partial knowledge of the topics covered in lectures, with some gaps; answers are sometimes unclear, with limited use of technical terminology. The exercise is only partially correct.

Lectures and numerical exercises.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Climate change and energy" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development