In the near future, experts predict that the energy demand will drastically increase, especially because of the spectacular industrial and economic growth of the emerging countries. In such a context, meeting the energy needs of society without serious adverse impacts on humanity and the environment is a world challenge.
The ME3 program provides training in a wide range of energy technologies. Students have the opportunity to learn about traditional combustion technologies as well as sustainable and renewable energy technologies such as wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal. Energy efficiency (demand-side) policies and actions are also covered.
Students can choose between all the energy semesters option (option A: KTH Stockholm, B: BME Budapest and C: IMT Atlantique Nantes). The three alternatives for the Energy semester make possible to offer different focus and pedagogical approaches.
This course brings up techniques for large- and small scale electricity and heat generation in power plants fired on biomass, oil, natural gas and coal. Thermodynamic power cycles and analysis, combustion, boilers, emissions, life-cycle-cost and availability are included in this course. Here material aspects, fuel cycles and plant control are included.
This course discusses the utilisation of energy in the present day society, taking into account sustainability and environmental aspects. The course will focus on the technologies used to meet a wide spectrum of energy demands needed for cooling, heating, and ventilation in the built environment.
This course provides a survey of the most important renewable energy resources, and the technologies for harnessing these within the framework of a broad range of simple to state-of the-art advanced energy systems. The course consists of:
The aim of the course is to introduce theory and methodology of science to Master’s students and prepare them for the development of their Master’s thesis. The course introduces basic concepts and understanding of methodological and underlying philosophical issues that arise in science. Furthermore, the course invites to reflection on research issues within the student’s own area of interest. The course works as a scientific initiation for applied research in energy related topics. Critical assessment of methods and results of research are exercised within the scope of the course, which can help students to evaluate and analyze research materials and evidence.
The course includes the following main activities:
Objectives: To examine the role of combustion in energy conversion. To course gives an overview of the combustion theory, the main processes and technologies applied for utilization of different type of fuels. Students will gain knowledge about the applied equipment, about the operational and construction practice. To understand the formation of pollutants in the boilers and any equipment where combustion happens and their controlling techniques.
Content: Types of fuels, ultimate/proximate analysis, fuel technology, analysis methods and results, excess air factor, calorific value, stoichiometric calculation, practical analysis of combustion products. Physical parameters of combustion, reaction types, flame velocity, combustion aerodynamics; stabilization of flames, premixed and diffusion, atomization, pulverization, different types of burners. Fuel technology: properties of various solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. Equipment constructions. Modelling methods and techniques in combustion.
Laboratory: Flame velocity. Flame and burner demonstration. Emission measurement.
Objectives:To be familiar with operation principles and design considerations of systems used for heat and power generation or transformation. To know technologies of heat engines, turbines, boilers and internal combustion engines. To be able to perform calculation of thermo-physical phenomena running in the equipment. To initiate the students with modelling of complex thermodynamic cycles involved in internal combustion engines.
Content: Energy sources, demands and utilizations. Power generation. Steam cycles (superheating, reheating, regeneration, combined). Boilers and steam generators. Nuclear power stations. Combined heat and power generation. Internal combustion engines. Centralized - distributed power generation. Calculation of energy balance, software's for system planning and modelling. Environment protection.
Laboratory: Demonstration of basic equipments and solutions of energy generation.
Objectives: To acquire some fundamental knowledge and understand the terminology and the scientific concepts used in modelling energy conversion processes. This session prepares the students to be able built up and solve models for industrial processes and energy conversion systems in Matlab/Simulink environment.
Content: Methods of determination the dynamic models. Type of equation groups. Linear - nonlinear, distributed – concentrated parameters. Application of Matlab/Simulink interactive programming language. Case studies: simple and complex energy conversion processes. Student projects: dynamic modeling and simulation experiment.
Laboratory: Computer room practice individual work station for each student.
Objectives: The aim of the course is to show thermodynamic process realizations in different turbine constructions. Calculation of energy transformation in different stages. Show differences of real process from theoretical ones. Demonstration of steam- and gas-turbine designs.
Content: Historical notes. Classification of turbines. Principal elements. Axial flow turbines: impulse stage, reaction stage, velocity compounded stage. Losses, design considerations. Flow in nozzle. Calculation of nozzles and stage parameters, power and torque. Efficiency, characteristic curves. Gas turbine cycles (inter-cooling, reheating, two- and three-shaft gas turbines...). Compressors, combustion chambers, turbines, blade cooling solutions, co-operation of elements. Efficiency and losses. Constructions for different applications, industrial and aircraft engines.
Laboratory: Demonstration of steam and gasturbine elements and operation test of a micro-gas turbine.
Objectives: The aim of the course is to develop and enhance the capability for complex energy generation or transformation problem solving of the students under advisory management of their project leader. The project gives the students the opportunity to apply and integrate different knowledge acquired in the previous and running semesters.
Content: In the course of the Project one student or group of 2 students will work on one selected challenging problem of thermal engineering. Several experimental and/or numerical project proposals will be announced by the project leaders. At the end of each semester a written Project Report is to be submitted and the summary and findings of the investigations on the selected problem is to be presented as Project Presentation. An emphasis will be put on how to present scientific data in both written reports and oral presentation.
Objectives: To make the students familiar with the measurement methods and instrumentation of thermal processes, experimental investigation, process operating control and treatment of data. The course emphasises the use data analysis tools the role of measurement in operation, the diagnostics tools and elaboration At the end of the course, the students know how to define an experimental methodology, exploit and interpret results to solve an engineering or scientific problem.
Content: Measurement methods and techniques of thermal processes and pollutant emission. System - model - measurement - evaluation. State of the art data acquisition methods, systems and signal transducers. Operational and service measurements, engine diagnostics, performance characteristic. Stability and vibrations tests. Evaluation methods in data processing. Questions of safety, availability and reliability. Application of LabView graphical programming environment.
Laboratory: Demonstration and operation tests of different measurement and data acquisition techniques.
Objectives: Introduce students to the financial evaluation principals through energy system evaluation examples. To show investment and operation evaluation methods in energy economy. Showing special goal functions and evaluation principals. Connections and cross effects of energy economy with another industrial parts, local global and national scale.
Content: Education of the subject is based on case study discussions and evaluations. Presented theoretical methods are demonstrated through case studies.