1. Calculation of "Full Load hours" and Capacity Factors of Biomass, Solar, Wind, and Hydro Power.
2. Energy required for heating, melting, and vaporization of water. Fuel requirements (H2, CH4) to perform that.
Lecture (02) for this exercise: [ Ссылка ]
Next lecture - Solar Irradiance (15/11/2020): [ Ссылка ]
Entire course:
1. Introduction to the Transition of the Energy System: [ Ссылка ]
2. Conventional power supply: [ Ссылка ]
3. Solar Irradiance: Astronomical basics: Positioning of the sun during a year, Elevation and azimuth of the sun during a day and during the year from a terrestrial observer, Spectra of the sun for different "Air Masses" (AM): [ Ссылка ]
4. Solar Thermal Energy Systems: [ Ссылка ]
5. PV - Basics: Principle of photovoltaic energy conversion. Characteristics of solar cells: I-V-curve, influence of irradiance level, spectrum of irradiance, spectral efficiency, MPP, Form Factor, influence of parasitic resistors, weak light effect, operation temperature, STC. [ Ссылка ]
6. PV Energy Systems: Installation, Mounting, Foundation, Substructures, Inverters, Conversion efficiency, Energy yield, Off-grid vs. On-grid systems, Configuration of PV systems, Wiring, Balance of System costs (BoS), Optimization of PV power plants. [ Ссылка ] Solutions to Exercise 6 – PV systems - plus homework.[ Ссылка ]
7. Wind Energy: Historical and actual development of wind power conversion.
Extractable power from the wind. Parameters of wind energy: Height, pressure, temperature, density. Weibull- and Rayleigh-distribution of wind velocity.
Theoretical conversion efficiency of wind power conversion, Betz efficiency. Types of wind power converters, tip speed ratio, cost, complementarity, software tool, literature.
7.1 Wind Energy: [ Ссылка ]
7.2 Correlation of wind and solar power: [ Ссылка ]
8. Hydro Power: Historical water wheels, type of turbines, run-of-river-plants, hydro storage power plants: [ Ссылка ]
9. Geothermal Energy: Potential, Geology, Conversion Processes, Exploration, Costs [ Ссылка ]
