Advanced Energy Stream

Dr. Vira Bondar
Nuclear Physics Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev

Nuclear Energy and Medicine

Medical radiation physics is one of the fascinating and intensively developing fields, which gives us possibility to use our knowledge on nuclear and radiation energy for health-related purposes. Today nuclear and radiation techniques are commonly applied in the diagnosis and treatment of a large numbers of infectious, cardio-vascular disorders and cancer.

This course will allow to understand from the physical point of view - how does ionizing radiation interact with the matter, what are the main principles of dosimetry, and how is it applied in medicine. Students will get acquainted with modern radiation and nuclear technologies of diagnostics and medical treatment, such as x-ray radiography, radiotherapy, computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography (PET).

Dr. Michel Chouha
Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), France

Part 1: Nuclear Energy Challenges in the 21st Century
Part 2: Operation and Control of a Nuclear Reactor

The Fukushima accident in March 2011 has called into question the enthusiasm of the last decade towards large development of nuclear energy that was often described as the "renaissance" of nuclear energy (meaning the recovery from the fall observed after Chernobyl accident). However, despite the concern raised after this accident at the international level, nuclear energy is expected to continue playing major role in the energy production balance in number of countries over the world for at least several decades more.

The lecture is intended to provide an insight into the operation and the control of nuclear reactors. The audience will get acquainted with the main parts of a nuclear power plant, the main characteristics of the core of the reactor, the process of power generation, the operation and the means used to control the nuclear processes in the core of the reactor and to ensure safe operation of the plant.

Dr. Manfred Daum
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland

Energy Production and Consumption in Switzerland

1. What is electricity
2. Water power plants in Switzerland
3. Nuclear power plants in Switzerland
4. Renewable energy production in Switzerland

Energy and Mass: E = mc², part I

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Energy and Mass: E = mc², part II

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About Energy and Physics in Football

1. Introduction
2. Energy and physics in penalty shooting
3. When is it a goal: the truth about Wembley 1966 etc.
4. Crosses: the Magnus effect
5. Intuition and vector addition: where does the ball go after a cross?

Dr. Johann Harter
Activ Solar, Austria

Photovoltaics - a Solution to Slow Down Global Warming

Global Warming is a phenomenon that has been headlining major media publications since the 1960’s. Students will get acquainted with the topic of Global warming as well as how photovoltaics could become a solution to solve this critical problem. Topics to be discussed are the solar value chain, the production of photovoltaic technology and various case studies of successful Solar PV projects in Ukraine.

Ir. Jan Haverkamp
Greenpeace expert consultant on nuclear energy and energy policy in Central and Eastern Europe

The course will be delivered in the form of a workshop. It will consist of two parts: first the participants will get to know about energy transition based on comparison of energy policy scenarios and then about nuclear energy and its qualitative issues of concern - safety risks, security risks, radioactive waste - risks in the German energy transition.

This two day workshop will address the backgrounds of the German decision to move away from nuclear energy towards an economy based on efficient use of renewable energy sources and the consequences for the global energy debate. The workshop will be based short introductions and video documentaries with interactive and participative working sessions.

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Dr. Ryuta Kasada
Advanced Atomic Energy Research Section, Advanced Energy Generation Division, Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Japan

Fusion Energy

Fusion energy is the energy of the future. The “big science” involves long-term, wide, complex, (and costly) projects in the world.

The course will give an systematic overview of the latest research and development on fusion reactor based on the technology readiness levels (TRL).

The TRL provides a systematic measure of the engineering maturity of fusion reactor concepts in Japan.

The lecture also emphasizes the role of materials innovation for the realization of fusion reactor power generation compared to the currently-available fission reactors.

Experimental simulation methods on fusion reactor materials in the severe environments will be shown with the basis of material science and technology.

Dr. Sergii Khairnasov
Thermal Power Department, National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”, Ukraine

Solar Energy

This course includes the overview of solar energy technologies, solar energy technologies in a sustainable future and defines why solar energy is necessary for the future.

Students will understand various kinds of solar energy technology, how they work, their advantages, disadvantages and limitations. The following kinds of solar energy technology will be studied: solar thermal systems, solar photovoltaic, concentrating solar systems (solar tower, solar parabolic trough, solar Dish/Stirling and concentrating photovoltaic systems) and solar cooling. Particularly, heat pipes application in solar energy systems will be considered.

Additionally, students will have optional assignments throughout the course to reinforce the information presented.

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Prof. Yoshio Matsuki
Department of Mathematical Method for System Analysis, Istitute for Applied System Analysis, NTUU “KPI”, Ukraine

Comparative Economic Assessment of Various Energy Systems

The comparative economic assessments of various energy systems were conducted in many countries since the early 1990s, which were led by the international organizations such as the International Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those studies compared different energy systems, including coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear, hydro and renewable energies such as wind, solar and biomass, in terms of various costs and influences to the regional economy, society, health and environment. This lecture is aimed at giving the overview of the results of those major studies and the basis for the decision making on the energy selection and planning in near future.

The lecturer covers the costs of various energy options assessed by different organizations, the factors taken into account in these cost comparisons, the international programs to assess and compare various energy sources, the external costs of securing the energy supply (energy import price shock and economic impacts), and the costs and the risks of the new technologies, technology development and sustainability. The lecture takes place in English for 6 hours with visual aids.

Prof. Valery Pugatch
Institute for Nuclear Research NASU, Head of the High Energy Physics department, Ukraine

Discovery Tools at the Large Hadron Collider

On the July 4th 2012 the discovery of the new boson simeltaneously by two experiments at CERN has been annonced. In this talk a brief overview of the discovery tools at the LHC experiments (ATLAS, CMS, LHCb ALICE) will be presented. In particular, recent achievements in micro-detectors and read-out electronics explored for creating unprecedendent tracking and vertexing systems as well as for high accuracy measurements of paricles energies ranging the TeV scale will be discussed. Finally, the latest results of all four experiments will be presented including a discovery of the Higgs boson announced by ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN.

Dr. Volodymyr Voloshchuk
National University of Water Management and Nature Resources Use, Rivne, Ukraine

Heat Pump Technologies

A heat pump is able to extract heat from the air, ground or water and provide it for using in different applications of human activity (heating, cooling etc). The only energy required is the one used to concentrate the thermal energy – so the system can provide a heat output up to four times larger than the energy input.

The course includes:

• principles of heat pump technologies;
• refrigerant working fluids;
• applications, installation and service of heat pumps;
• calculation of pay-off times for an investment in a heat pump system;
• analyzing the potential for heat pumps on the national level.

Review of Energy Sector

Forecast assessments of the structure of world energy supply and demand of the current century will be given, and its resource security will be investigated. The expected global consequences of the impact of energy facilities on the environment will be analyzed.

Review of Thermal Engineering

The course will provide knowledge about relationships among heat, work and other forms of energy. Knowledge and practical experience of possible technologies and techniques in thermal engineering for designing energy-efficient systems and managing energy in an effective way will be presented.

Heat pumps laboratory at the Institute of Hydromechanics

The excursion to the laboratory will provide participants with an insight into the basis for effective resolution of fundamental problems of energy technology. Besides, they'll get to know about sustainable energy technologies that have minimal environmental impact (including hydrogen, where the carrier of energy is hydrogen) and opportunities for practical application of new technologies in energy production such as the use of low potential heat, implemented in a variety of heat pumps. Current examples of the latter, as the hydrogen model, are available in the laboratory.

Joint educational and research laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden), Institute of Hydromechanics of NAS of Ukraine and "KPI" was opened at the Institute of Hydromechanics in 2007.