Course Program
CURRENT ENERGY SCENARIO AND SHORT- AND MEDIUM-TERM PROSPECTS
- Analysis of the Current Energy System (Consumption, Available Energy Sources, Technologies Used) and Interventions for the Transition toward a “Decarbonized” Energy System Model.
THERMAL DESIGN OF THERMOMECHANICAL ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS
- Steam Turbine Plants: Thermal Design and Performance Optimization Criteria; Evolution, Development Prospects, and Fields of Application.
- Gas Turbine Plants: Thermal Design and Performance Optimization Criteria. Evolution and Development Prospects of Industrial and Aeronautical Gas Turbines. Small-Scale Applications: Microturbines.
- Combined Gas-Steam Cycle Plants: Thermal Design Criteria and Methodologies. Development Prospects and Fields of Application.
TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE REDUCTION OF POLLUTANT EMISSIONS (NOx, SO₂, etc.) and CO₂ CAPTURE
- Abatement Systems in Pre-Combustion, Combustion, and Post-Combustion.
ENERGY SAVING
- Cogeneration and Energy Recovery: Design Criteria for Cogeneration Technologies and Plant Schemes.
INNOVATIVE LOW-ENVIRONMENTAL-IMPACT TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION
- Polygeneration Plants (Electric, Thermal, Synthetic Fuels): Gasification and Related Technologies for Clean Use of Solid Fuels.
- Complex Plants with CO₂ Capture.
- Plasma Gasification Technologies for Waste-to-Energy and Plant Schemes.
- Power-to-Gas Technologies.
- High- and Low-Temperature Fuel Cells.
- Hybrid Plant Schemes with Fuel Cells and Fields of Application.