Module description
Exam winter semester
For the exam date please register in the Stud.IP group for the course from the previous semester.
Teaching language
All classes of the module are held in German.
The successful candidate will be able to:
- Understand the tension arising between meeting ecological and economical demands while providing secured supply
- Apply thermodynamics to processes in the power plant engineering sector
- Know and compare different methods for power generation (fossil fuelled and renewable)
- Understand the structure and principle of operation of energy conversion technologies and analyse these using thermodynamics
- Understand multiple options to improve the energy conversion processes and to evaluate the realistic improvements using diagrams
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of combined energy conversion technologies
Content:
- Conversion of primary energy to electrical energy
- Direct energy conversion
- Operation principles of simple heat- and incineration power plants
- Operation principles of improved heat- and incineration power plants
- Combined power generation technologies
- Combined heat- and power plants
Course registration and materials
Lecture and exercise materials, as well as a collection of past exams with sample solutions, can be found under this course in Stud.IP.
Your lecturer in this module
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Scharf
Professors
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An der Universität 1
30823 Garbsen
30823 Garbsen
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Scharf
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