Not offered in the academic year 2024-2025
- Introduction to renewable and conventional energy resources. Energy reserves. Energy planning and management.
- Fuel cells – heat pumps. Impact of conventional energy consumption to air quality and climate.
- Solar power: Theoretical approach of solar radiation transfer through the atmosphere. Temporal and spatial variations of solar power.
- Measurements of solar radiation. Calculation of solar energy on horizontal, tilted and sun-tracking planes.
- Systems for harvesting and transformation of solar power. Direct transformation to thermal energy. Applications.
- Space heating. Solar concentrators. Transformation of solar energy to other energy types.
- Wind power: Theoretical approach (wind forces and power extraction, power coefficients). Spatial and temporal variation of wind power. Wind turbines. Streamline theory for ideal and actual wind rotor.
- Power generation from wind turbines. Estimation of wind speed vertical profile.
- Estimation of the wind potential of a given region. Statistical analysis of wind characteristics. Wind farms.
- Other renewable energy systems: Geothermal, tidal and, wave and biomass energy.
- Renewable energy in Greece: Applications and prospects
