Planeamento
Aulas Teóricas
Lecture n. 1 - Course presentation and intorduction to renewable energy
Course presentation. The world energy situation. Renewable energies of solar origin and others. Current status of renewable energies worldwide and in Portugal.
Lecture n. 2 - Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity. Basic concepts. Introduction to hydrology. Hydroelectric plants and their performance.
Lecture n. 3 - Hydroelectricity (cont.)
Contribution to electrical grid supply: current status and perspectives in Portugal, Europe and worldwide. Environmental constraints
Lecture n. 5 - Wind energy
Wind energy. The resource and its distribution in Portugal and Europe. Variability and statistic representations. Atmospheric boundary layer. Influence of orography and gound roughness.
Lecture n. 6 - Wind Energy (cont.)
Wind plant performance. Onshore and offshore wind plants. Current status and perspectives
Lecture n.6 - Ocean Energy
Ocean energies. Tidal energy: dam-and-reservoir plants and tidal current plants. Energy from the waves. Wave characterization and energy. Regular waves and irregular real waves: spectral representaion and statistical parameters. The wave energy resource in Portugal, Europe and worldwide.
Lecture n. 7 - Ocean Energy (cont.)
Introduction to wave energy conversion systems. Current status and perspectives
Lecture n. 8 - Biomass
Biomass: introduction, status and global trends, relation between energy matters and climate changes. Solid bio-fuels: biomass as a fuel, biomass types, combustion technologies, constraints to the use of biomass fuels, environmental issues
Lecture n. 9 - Biomass (cont.)
Liquid bio-fuels: technologies for converting biomass into liquid fuels (methanol and ethanol), long-term bio-fuel production potentials, economic and energy security, environmental issues. Gaseous bio-fuels: biogas, anaerobic digestion process and description, biogas content, market and availability of biogas, energetic and environmental issues.
Lecture n. 10 - Solar Energy
Solar energy. Solar radiation and its characterization. The relative Sun-Earth motion. Solar radiation at the Earth surface and its variation with location (latitude), time of the day and of the year, and meteorological conditions. Solar energy resource in Portugal and Europe.
Lecture n. 11 - Solar Energy (cont.)
Fundamentals of solar energy conversion: thermal applications and photovoltaics
Lecture n. 12 - Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy. Its origin. Geothermal systems and its classification: low, medium and high enthalpy. Geographical distribution. Technologies for geothermal energy conversion: heating and electrical energy production. Perspectives.