Renewable energy (for ME)
Weekly outline
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Video recordings for the lectures available on:
https://mediaspace.epfl.ch/channel/ME-460%2BRenewable%2Benergy%2B%2528for%2BME%2529/49199
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Geothermal energy
Application of thermodynamic power cycles and heat pump cycles -
Geothermal energy
Basics, potential, uses, applications
Power plants - Rankine Cycles - Flash
Heat pumps & building heating
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Solar Energy
Basics : Sun energy and cycles
Solar input per m2 per day/year and potential to exploit it
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Solar Thermal Energy
Flat collectors (=> hot sanitary water)
Concentrated collection => power plants (Rankine, Brayton, hybrid)
Trough / Tower / Dish
Layout of a CSP plant, and indication of the various losses
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Photovoltaics
Principles
Technology status
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Biomass energy : solids (wood, crops, wastes)
Uses
Combustion, Pyrolysis, Gasification, Cycles, Sizes, Efficiencies
