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Language: English |
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Previous course: 64285
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No credit points with: 64285
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Prerequisite: 64080
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Recommended semester: 6th semester
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Scope and form: Lectures and group work.
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Examination: Evaluation of report. Evaluation of group work and report (13-scale)
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Participant limitation: max. 100
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Department: Department of Buildings and Energy
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Aim: To give the participants an insight into the potentials for utilizing the energy more efficiently in a broad and thereby obtain the environmental advantages of a lower energy consumption. This insight can be integrated into the solution of several technical or planning tasks of the kind engineers are often confronted by in industrialized countries as well as in developing countries. Or they can serve as inspiration for specialization into a few of the many technologies covered by this topic.
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Contents: The course focuses on the energy consumption side, where technology meets human needs and lifestyle. Some basic elements of energy principles for energy conservation and their political implementations are gone through. The prospects for energy conservation in specific technologies and energy services are analysed. For instance lighting, cloth washing, transport of persons, space cooling, cooking, water supply, electronics, agriculture, and special industrial processes. System considerations are part of the course too, as are economical and environmental assessments in the form of life cycle assessments in the studies of the systems as well as of the single elements composing the systems. The group exercises may to some extent be adapted to the wishes and background of the students.
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