| Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester |
| Scope and form: Lectures and group work. |
| Evaluation: Approval of coursework/reports
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| Examination: 13-scale |
| Previous course: 64285 |
| Preferred prerequisites: 53003 / 41403 |
| No credit points with: 64285.64480 |
| Participant limitation: Max. 100 |
| Aim: To give the participants an insight into the potentials for utilizing the energy more efficiently in a broad sense and thereby obtain the preventive environmental advantages of a lower energy consumption. This insight can be applied in solving various technical or planning tasks of the kind engineers are often confronted with in industrialized countries as well as in developing countries. Or the insight can serve as inspiration for specializing in one or a few of the many technologies covered by this course. |
| Contents: The focus of the course is on the energy consumption side, where technology meets human needs and lifestyles. Some basic elements of energy saving actions and for modeling and planning energy savings and their political implementations are gone through. The prospects for energy savings in specific technologies and energy services are analysed. For instance lighting, cloth washing, space cooling, cooking, water supply, electronics, agriculture, m.v. System considerations are part of the course too, as are economical and environmental assessments in the form of life cycle assessments of the systems, etc. The group exercises may to some extent be adapted to the wishes and background of the students. |
| Contact: Jørgen Nørgaard, building 118, (+45) 4525 1933, jsn@byg.dtu.dk |
| Department: 011 Department of Civil Engineering |
| Keywords: Environment, Energy, Energy Savings, Energy Service, Energy Planning |
| Updated: 27-04-2001 |
