33965 - Special Plants (Graduate Course)

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Marco Gentilini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-IND/17
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0938)

Course contents

Technic and economic foundamentals of non conventional energy production plants are treated.

Engineering and costs of nuclear, (fusion and fission), solar, (thermal and photovoltaic), wind, hydraulic and geothermal energy generation plants and biological fuel production from specific cultivations, urban and zootechnical wastes, are discussed.

Advanced energy conversion systems, (fuel cell, magnetohydro dinamic, thermoelectrical and termoionic devices), are described.

Office hours

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