Mechanical Engineering Energy Technology (MB-ET) - Summer Semester
Course Descriptions (MB-ET) - Summer Semester
Technical thermodynamics/heat transfer - Heat transfer submodule
Basic knowledge of the transport laws for thermal energy (conduction, convection, radiation) is acquired.
Contents of the lecture are first of all the basics for the phenomenological description of the mechanisms conduction, convection and radiation as well as, based on this, their application to stationary and transient problems of heat conduction, the heat transfer at fins, the heat transfer of multi-layered bodies (plate, cylinder, sphere), the calculation of heat exchangers and the optimization of heat transfer processes.
Thermal process technology
Contents of the module are the special interrelationships of energy conversion in the field of production and power plant processes as well as their engineering description as basic building blocks and their balancing by means of thermodynamic cycle processes. The module covers the entire process chain from fuel preparation to the main plant technology and its downstream equipment, taking into account energy policy/legal framework conditions. Furthermore, it includes the operation and maintenance supporting assistance systems.
Heat exchangers, piping, vessels and energy storage - Part: Heat exchangers and steam generators
This part of the course teaches the design and sizing of heat exchangers including their heat transfer surfaces while applying the fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and materials science. Energetic, economic and ecological relationships are made understandable. The students are enabled to evaluate the existing technology and to tackle new developments. The basics taught in the lectures are deepened in the exercises using practical examples and in self-study. Existing engineering knowledge is applied and further developed with economic aspects on the one hand and legal and safety regulations and standards on the other.
Renewable energy supply - part: biomass utilization
Contents are the special interrelationships in the field of energetic and material use of biomasses, the definition of bioenergy carriers, their potential and combustion properties (characterization) as well as the basics/techniques and conversion processes (combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, biomass to X, fermentation, gas purification and treatment).
Energy Systems Engineering - Part: Storage and Grids - Gas
This course deals with the highly topical issue of chemical and geological storage technologies and the impact of the fluctuating behavior of renewable energies on transmission grids.