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TFNE3006

Energy storage

Credits 10
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Autumn 2019
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Portfolio assessment and Written exam

About

About the course

Course content

Management and storage of heat, mechanical, and electrical energy.
Market, research, and application aspects (eg. Smart-grid, off-grid, Ragone plot, buffer concepts). Thermal energy storage, heat reservoirs, phase transition utilization and chemically bound heat (eg. A district heating network solfanget heat). Mechanical energy storage: Spin Wheels, pumps, turbines and heat recovery (eg. Air compression pump power, spin wheels in various sizes.). Electrochemical storage of electrical energy: Important battery technologies and hydrogen technologies (excl. Lead batteries, various Li-ion batteries, unlike electrolysis of water, different hydrogen storage, and various fuel cells).
System evaluation and modeling: Usage of LabView to set up different energy storage units in laboratory use.

Learning outcome

Knowledge
The candidate must understand
- Concept and operation of available and relevant energy storage systems.
- Comparison tools used in system evaluation.
- Different needs within energy storage.
- Cause and propagation of efficiency losses in various energy storage systems.

Skills
Candidates is expected to be able to
- Explain the concept and operation of available and relevant energy storage systems.
- Calculating the efficiency of charging cycles for different energy storage systems.
- Design energy and power needs of simple hybrid systems based on output and energy capacity.

General competence
- The candidate is expected to manage basic principles for accessible and relevant energy storage systems and quantitatively and qualitatively be able to compare these.
- The candidate is able to set up simple LabView routines and analyse routines developed by others.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, tutorials, and laboratory exercises.

Compulsory assignments

  • Tutorials
  • Laboratory Tasks

Further on evaluation

Re-sit examination in March, week 10 or 11.
Mandatory assignments:
5 of 8 tutorials must be approved. 1 of 1 laboratory exercise must be approved.

The retake of the exam can be held orally if it is 5 or less candidates registered.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Renewable Energy (FTHINGFEN)

Course materials

"Engineering Energy Storage." O. S. Burheim, Academic Press, 1st edition 2017.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TFNE3008 7.5 sp
TFNE3003 10 sp
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Engineering Subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Energy and Process Engineering

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Portfolio assessment and Written exam
Grade: Letters

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2019

Mappevurdering
Weighting 25/100 Examination aids ALLE Duration 1 semesters
Skriftlig eksamen
Weighting 75/100 Examination aids Code D Date 2019-11-28 Time 15:00 Duration 4 hours
Place and room for skriftlig eksamen

The specified room can be changed and the final location will be ready no later than 3 days before the exam. You can find your room location on Studentweb.

Sluppenvegen 14
Room SL111 orange sone
10 candidates

Re-sit examination - Spring 2020

Mappevurdering
Weighting 25/100 Examination aids ALLE Duration 1 semesters
Skriftlig eksamen
Weighting 75/100 Examination aids Code D Duration 4 hours Place and room Not specified yet.

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