Program Overview

Program Overview

The Energy Clean and Cascade Utilization program is a postgraduate professional course focusing on renewable energy exploitation, clean and efficient energy conversion and utilization under the background of "carbon peak and carbon neutral". The program includes the following contents: high efficiency utilization technology and related equipment of fossil energy such as natural gas/coal, gas turbine/steam turbine power generation technology, fuel cell, nuclear energy, solar energy technology, hydrogen production technology, ocean energy technology, fuel cell/gas turbine hybrid system, energy cascade utilization, smart energy systems, carbon capture and recycling and related technology development status and prospects.

Course Information

• Course Code: PE6420
• Credit Hours: 48
• Credits: 3
• Course Name: Energy Clean and Cascade Utilization
• Course Type: Professional elective course
• Language of Instruction: English
• School: China-UK Low Carbon College
• Prerequisite: Clean Energy, Thermodynamic Engineering, Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics
• Teacher: Associate Prof. Xiaojing Lv

Course Description

The course is intended to provide students with the following benefits:

1. Understand the basic concept of renewable energy, master the clean energy utilization technology and method.
2. Master the composition of conventional fossil energy, hydrogen production technology, and efficient conversion principle and application technology of conventional fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.
3. Understand the principles and basic methods of advanced energy efficient conversion and utilization.
4. Master energy cascade utilization principle and basic technology, be familiar with the basic processes of cold, heat and electricity co-generation, IGCC, IGFC, smart energy system, carbon capture and recycling etc.

Course Syllabus

The course syllabus includes the following topics:

• Energy Category and Define
• World energy consumption and outlook
• Fossil fuels and the environment
• Energy transition
• Clean energy technology: Fuel cell category and define
• Fuel cell power system
• Energy conversion in fuel cells
• Thermodynamic and electrochemical performance and model establishment
• Fuel Cell power plant in the world
• Gas turbine classification and development
• Theory of operation and energy conversion
• Gas turbine power plant and Combined cycle system
• Modelling and thermodynamic
• Gas turbine power using H2 and NH3
• Low-temperature heat source concept and classification
• Working principle of the ORC
• Applications for the ORC
• Modeling of ORC systems
• ORC combined with other clean power cycle
• Natural gas category and components
• Natural gas Utilization Technology
• Traditional Combustion
• Clean Combustion Technology
• Natural gas in Smart energy system
• Gas turbine combined cycle generator system and smart energy saving technology
• Conception of energy grade and utilization vale analysis
• Method and technology of Energy cascade utilization
• Theory of thermal conversion and technology
• Low-grade energy utilization and the heat pump
• The theory of the combined cooling heating and power generation and case study
• Design of Low carbon cycle
• Power regeneration technology with supercritical steam
• Power regeneration technology by using fluidized boiler with high pressure
• Integrated coal gasification combined cycle technology (IGCC)
• Integrated coal gasification combined fuel cell cycle (IGFC) technology
• History of biomass energy utilization
• Power generation with biomass power and comparing with the other power generation technology
• Influence of biomass power on the environment
• Some problems confronted with hydrogen made from biomass
• Modeling of producing H2
• General introduction of solar energy
• Solar collector and corresponding design theory
• The application of solar energy in the buildings
• Power generation by using solar energy
• General introduction of wind energy
• Fundamental theory of wind energy and corresponding equipment as well as the efficiency of power generation with wind
• General introduction of Multi-vector energy system
• Smart energy system and its application
• Operational performance
• Microgrid
• Introduction of ocean energy and relevant equipment
• Introduction of ocean flow energy and relevant equipment
• Introduction of tidal energy and relevant equipment

Grading

• Class attendance: 20%
• Individual assignments: 30%
• Team assignments: 50%

Textbooks and Other Materials

• [1] Lawrence E. Jones. Renewable Energy Integration. Academic Press. ISBN:. 2014.
• [2] China national development and reform commission. International Renewable Energy Current Status and Future Outlook. China Environmental Science Press. ISBN：. 2006.
• [3] Honggang Jin, Rumou Lin. Comprehensive cascade utilization of energy and gas turbine total energy system. Science Press. ISBN: . 2008.
• [4] Zongxing Wu, Wenying Chen. Multiplication Strategy of Clean energy Based on the Coal. Tsinghua University Publishing House, ISBN .2001.
• [5]. Yiwu Weng. Low grade heat energy conversion process and utilization. Shanghai Jiao Tong University Publishing House, ISBN: /TK.2014.
• [6]. Yiwu Weng, Xiaojing Lv. Energy technology. Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, ISBN /N. 2017.