Energy Efficiency and Environmental Management

Course title: Energy Efficiency and Environmental Management

Code: 3ФЕИТ04З005

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+2+0+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Energy efficient measures and devices, energy saving. Impact of power plants for electricity production on human and environment. Study of methodologies for calculation of harmful effects of solid, liquid and gas products, ways for their reduction, and efficient energy methods. Evaluation of the environmental impacts of  energy generating capacities and technologies.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Energy efficient energy saving measures. Impact of the  electricity production from different technologies on the environment. Types of fossil fuels and their composition. Impacts  of thermal power plants (TPP) on fossil fuels to the environment. Solid waste (ash) and emission of gases (nitrogen, sulfur and carbon oxides). The greenhouse GHG effect and the significance of the ozone layer for the life of the earth. Technologies and chains for electricity generation. Technologies for reducing the emission of fossil fuels in TPPs and their economic evaluation for the entire plant. Impact of the nuclear power plant operation on the environment. Classification of radioactive waste and ways to solve them. Effects of the construction of hydroelectric plants on the environment and evaluation of the effects of the bio cycle disruption at the local and global level. Quantification of the risk to the environment from the operation of power facilities.

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