Course Program
Current Energy Scenario and Short- to Medium-Term Prospect
Analysis of the current energy system (consumption, available energy sources, employed technologies).
Thermal Design of Thermomechanical Energy Conversion Systems
- Steam Turbine Plants: Thermal design and performance optimization criteria; evolution, development prospects, and application fields.
- Gas Turbine Plants: Thermal design and performance optimization criteria; evolution and development prospects of industrial and aeronautical gas turbines.
- Combined Gas-Steam Cycle Plants: Criteria and methodologies for thermal system design; development prospects and application fields.
Energy Saving
- Cogeneration and Energy Recovery: Operating principles, evaluation indices, PES (Primary Energy Saving), plant configurations, and control schemes.
Innovative Technologies with Low Environmental Impact
- Overview of polygeneration systems (electricity, heat, synthetic fuels).
- Innovative Power-to-Gas systems.
- Operating principles of high- and low-temperature Fuel Cells and their application fields.
- Electrolyzers.
