Mechanical Engineering Energy Technology (MB-ET) - Winter Semester

Course Descriptions (MB-ET) - Winter Semester

Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer    
Apply fundamentals of heat and mass transfer to transient heating/cooling and to processes with phase transformation; analogy to heat and mass transfer. Fundamentals of combustion calculation, gasification and pyrolysis.

Energetic use of biomass    
The subject of the course is the energetic (thermal) use of biomasses. After the definition of bioenergy sources, their potential and combustion properties (characterization), the fundamentals/techniques and processes of combustion, co-combustion, gasification and pyrolysis, the technically relevant pollutant components in the exhaust gases and measures to reduce them are taught.

Energy Systems Engineering   
This course addresses the highly topical issue of electrical, chemical, thermal, and geological storage technologies and power plant deployment planning and the impact of generation diversity and the impact of fluctuating renewable energy behavior on transmission grids.

Mathematical modeling and experimental validation in power engineering
Mathematical models and simulations represent in power engineering, similar to other fields of engineering, an important tool for basic research and development up to the design of concrete apparatus and plants. The modeling and discretization approaches covered in the course range from spatially zero-dimensional stirred tank reactors to three-dimensional unsteady CFD simulations. Another focus is the intensive use of the Siemens power plant simulator, on which the actual operating behavior of a combined cycle power plant is simulated and can thus be experienced in real time.