Study Guide

Objective

Knowledge and understanding
After completing the course, the student should be able to
- Knows the theory and the principle of distributed energy systems.
- Understand requirement of electric grid and micro-grid.
- Understands fundamentals of peak shaving and self-consumption optimization.
- Work with Modelling tool TRNSYS

Skills and Abilities
After completing the course, student should be able to:
- Design Model of energy exchange between building envelope and the surrounding
- Understand basics skills of control and monitoring systems.
- Use, describe and visualize facts from existing references documents.
- Understand safety issues related to distributed energy systems.

Evaluation Ability and Approach
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
- Model energy exchange between building envelope and the surrounding using TRNSYS
- Select relevant technology based on application.

Content

Generation, transmission, distribution and consumption
Energy Supply Security
Distributed Power Generations/Smart Grids/Microgrids
Energy Efficiency/Energy storage
Introduction to Transient System Simulation Tool (TRNSYS)
Building Energy simulations

Materials

Course documentation, relevant teaching materials and reference documents found in Moodle

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

35% – 60% of course work and exam completed

Assessment criteria, good (3)

60% – 85% of course work and exam completed

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

85% – 100% of course work and exam completed

Qualifications

No prerequisites.