Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

Energy sources and energy conversion - Perennial energy sources and non-renewable energy sources. Environmental effects of fossil fuel use: air, water and land pollution (short accounts). The emission controls (some accounts).
The machines in the thermodynamic cycles - The thermodynamic transformations: adiabatic compressions and expansions, isothermal and isobar transformations. The efficiencies of the fluid machines. The role of the turbomachines and of the heat exchangers in the thermodynamic cycles. The steam generators.
The conversion of the chemical energy of the fossil fuels - The combustion and its thermodynamic irreversibility. The reversible combustion (and the resulting technological problems). The electrochemical reactions. The coal gasification (some accounts). The production of synthetic fuels (only short accounts). The carbon dioxide capture and sequestration (some accounts).
The thermodynamic cycles and the energy conversion plants - The traditional energy conversions. The thermodynamic basis of the
cogeneration. The thermal prime movers using steam. The gas turbines cycles. The combined cycles. The internal combustion engines (Otto and Diesel cycles). The refrigerating machines and the heat pump cycles. The problem of the generation of low temperature heat.
The steam coal plants - The direct coal combustion in the modern steam supercritical plants. The potential role of the binary cycles with metal vapours (some short accounts). Fluidized bed combustors (only short accounts).
The fuel cells - some accounts.
The nuclear energy and the fission reactors (some accounts) - Nuclear energy. Radioactivity: decay rates, units and dosages, biologial effects of the radiation. The peculiarities of the nuclear plants. Nuclear reactors: water moderated and refrigerated reactors, gas cooled reactors, breeder reactors. The fuel cycles.