Introduction to Energy Management


No of hours per week: 3  [2 + 1], one term   ECTS: 3
Lecturer: prof.dr.sc. Neven Duic - Neven.Duic@fsb.hr
Assistents: Goran Krajačić - Goran.Krajacic@fsb.hr
  Boris Ćosić - Boris.Ćosić@fsb.hr
  Tomislav Pukšec - Tomislav.Puksec@fsb.hr
  Luka Perković - Luka.Perkovic@fsb.hr

Study: undergraduate (BSc) study of mechanical engineering
Course: process and energy
Orientation: energy
Term: V term

Course type:
General
Elective: for all the other courses/orientatons this subject can be choosen as elective in winter term - problem report on Neven.Duic@fsb.hr

Schedule:
Tuesdays 14-17h 
According the needs, lectures and trainings which demand individual computer work will be held in groups.
Groups have upt to 9 students, better students have selecting advantage (those who are regular and with better grades)

Classroom:
PowerLab, computer classroom of the Power Engineering Laboratory (location)
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Registration:
To be able to attend Lectures from Introduction to Energy Management a student has to have a functioning e-mail, from which he should send a registration for attending lectures on following email: Neven.Duic@fsb.hr. Without that procedure a student won't be registered as present on the lecutre. [This institution is called "first signature"].

How to get an e-mail if you don't have one? Every student of FSB has the right to open an e-mail account on Faculty mail server, for which is necessary to contact dipl. ing. Zlatko Brkic u Computer center. Additionally it is possible to open a free e-mail account on great number of servers in the world, like on hotmail.com, or here in PowerLab.

Knowledge assessment:
continous [colloquy, programs ...]

Type of exercises:
practicum/laboratory/experimental/projektantske

Type of work:
  • interactive work: essays, case studies, smaller tasks
  • invited lectures - every year other lecturers from energy field and politics
  • computer aided education – every student works on one computer, Word + Excel + Explorer/Firefox + e-mail
  • signature term - report – depends on lecture attending and participance regularity in case studies, essay writing, etc.
  • exam
Examination:
essays, case studies, report, exam

   Course purpose:
Overview of theenergy resources situation in the World,their use and limitations, familiarise students of mechanical engineering strojarstva with economic aspects of energy (Energy management), rational use of energy from economic and ecological aspect and sustainable development from energy point of view (sustainable development of energy). 

Course objective:
Familiarising with the energy resources situation in the World, Europe and Croatia; enabling rational thinking and decision making on energy planning and energy policy; application of basic economic methods for financial evaluation of energy projects.

Literature:
  1. Enerpedia - wikiIntroductionToEnergyManagement
  2. Charles M. Gottschalk: Industrial Energy Conservation, UNESCO Energy Engineering Series, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 1996
  3. Maxime Kleinepeter: Energy Planning and Policy, UNESCO Energy Engineering Series, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 1995
  4. Naim H. Afgan at all., Sustainable development of energy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review 2, 235-286, 1998
  5. Goran Granic et al.: Nacionalni energetski programi, Energetski Institut "Hrvoje Pozar", Zagreb, 1998
  6. Damir Pesut et al.: Strategija energetskog razvitka Republike Hrvatske, Ministarstvo gospodarstva Republike Hrvatske, Zagreb, 2002
  7. Goran Granic et al.: Razvitak elektroenergetskog sustava Hrvatske do 2030. godine, Energetski Institut "Hrvoje Pozar", Zagreb, 1998

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Credits:
  1. Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Zagreb
  2. Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship, Zagreb
  3. HEP d.d., Zagreb
  4. Energy Institute "Hrvoje Pozar" d.o.o., Zagreb
  5. European Comission, Bruxelles
  6. UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Energy Management, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisabon, Portugal
Week Lectures   Exercises
1. Energy after Kyoto   Essay (10 lines to one page, upload on Moodle on the same day): “Energy after Kyoto – how to reduce CO2 emission in Croatia?”
2. Energy transformations  

Task: select one of the technology transformations and write or complete an article on http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glavna_stranica, as it is on english version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, by using materials from Enerpedia. Take into account author rights for images.

3. Economy and financial evaluation of energy projects  

Numerical tasks in Excel
4. Primary energy overview   Essay (10 lines to one page, upload on Moodle on the same day, 1 to 2 subjects):
“Electricity vs. gas”,
"Advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy sources".
5. Sustainable development of energy   Essay (3-5 pages, upload on Moodle until the next lecture, 1 to 2 subjects):
Main EU messages Energy Green paper and its consequences for Croatia.
Main EU messages Climate action and renewable energy packageand its consequences for Croatia.
6. Energy efficiency   Case studies (Word report and Excel calculation, upload on Moodle in one month time).
Essay (10 lines to one page, upload on Moodle on the same day): e-mail to tehnical manager.
7. Energy by sectors

Building sector

Transport sector



  

Case study (Word report and Excel calculation, upload on Moodle in one week time): Evaluation of heating expences for own building with and without heat isolation.
8. Energy system planning   Numerical tasks in Excel:
GDP comparation growth,
power system budget.
9. Context of Energy politics    
10. Energy markets    
11. renewable energy sources
  • intro discussion - renewable energy sources status - independent work (grouping into two groups)
  • literature: Enerpedia
   Wind eletricity production price calculation - Task.
Electricity price calculation gained from the photovoltaic solar plant - Task.
Essay (10 lines to one page, upload on Moodle on same day): “Nuclear energy yes or no?”


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