The course aims at contributing to the training of engineers able to deal with problems related to a rational and environmental-friendly energy use. In addition to the technical knowledge, the regulatory and tariff issues are considered, strictly required for the techno-economic evaluation of energy saving systems.
Knowledge and understanding skills:
The student must demonstrate to know:
- the main energy conversion systems;
- the energy saving assessment indices;
- the economic valuation indices of the investments;
- the tariff framework of the energy sector.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
The student must demonstrate to be able to:
- formulate pre-feasibility studies by using the acquired methodologies;
- carry out the techno-economic evaluation of different typologies of energy conversion systems;
Autonomy of judgment:
The student must be able to carry out on his own self the sensitivity analyses of all possible options in order to identify the best solution, even considering tariff and regulatory frameworks evolution.
Communicative skills:
The student must have the skills to communicate with experts of the field once he has acquired the technical knowledge and related technical language. Moreover, he must be able to explaining in a simple manner, even to non-expert people, the working principle of the main energy conversion systems, to showing the aim of energy saving and to showing the importance of the roles of tariffs and regulatory.
Learning skills:
The student must be able to continuously upgrade his knowledge, by means of consultation of texts and publications related to energy conversion and energy saving, and to adapt his own choices depending on the regulatory and tariff frameworks evolution.
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