Class Energy Efficiency

This UC aims to provide the student with the following set of skills: - Identify opportunities to use endogenous resources to generate energy; - Project energy generation systems using endogenous resources; - Evaluate, technically, renewable energy and energy efficiency projects; - Perform technical/economic evaluation of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects; - Know the energy consumption distribution among the different energy sectors; - Know the different etaps of an EA, their methodologies and goals; - Identify energy saving opportunities in different economic sectors;                     - Use economic indicators as a tool to classify different energy saving opportunities.

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Introduction: Actual energy situation and it corresponding environmental problems. Solar energy: Solar thermal energy; Photovoltaic energy. Wind generation: Introduction; Wind resources; Wind energy farms; Environmental impacts. Hydro Energy: Hydro plants; Hydrological studies; Project criterions and cost evaluation; Environmental impacts. Geothermal energy: Geothermal projects; Main handsel kinds; Applications; Environmental impacts. Biomass energy: Evolution of the biomass projects; Main biomass resources; Urban waste treatment; Applications; Environmental impacts. Legal framework for renewable energies in Portugal: Technical and economic conditions inherent to the integration of renewable energy resources in the national electric grid. Energy Audits: Goals; Phases and kinds of EA; Structure of na EA; Energy saving plans; Energy saving opportunities: Lighting; Driving force; Air conditioning; Compressed air; Energy management systems; CO2 European trade Emissions

PBL activities

Boyle, G. 2004. Renewable Energy, Oxford University Press. Donald L. Klass. 1998. Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals, Academic Press. Collares Pereira, M. 1998. Energias Renováveis, A Opção Inadiável, SPES.