Energy is a fundamental resource that makes modern life possible. It is an essential element of productivity, growth and quality of life. With global energy consumption projected to rise more than 50% by 2035, future prosperity depends on new ways to meet the world's energy needs. From flat-panel displays to solar PV inverters, new technologies are moving the world forward. These energy solutions will need to be cost effective and price competitive, applicable on a wide scale, and secure in their sources - "advanced energy." And there is a need to study methods that create economic, environmental and societal benefits through innovative and market-based approaches to energy issues.This stream provides insight to courses on renewable energy, fusion energy, nuclear energy, environmental technology, sustainable living, etc.
Program
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Dr. Michel Chouha |
Nuclear Energy: History, Development, Future PerspectivesThe course will provide an insight into the global energy context and the potential role of nuclear energy in the global energy balance. Then, the students shall get acquainted with the current status of nuclear power plants in the world, the different types and design characteristics of the most widely used reactors, their operation, control and safety features. A brief description of the three major nuclear accidents: TMI (USA -1979), Chornobyl (Ukraine - 1986) and Fukushima (Japan - 2011) will be provided. Finally the future development of nuclear energy will be presented through few concepts among the most promising ones currently known as Generation 4 reactors. |
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Prof. Michele Guida |
Detailed information about the course will be available later. |
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Prof. Jan Haverkamp |
The German Move Away From Nuclear Towards a Clean Energy Future - Backgrounds and Consequences For the Global Energy DebateThe 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. Sergii Khairnasov |
Solar EnergyThis 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 |
Comparative Economic Assessment of Various Energy SystemsThe 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. |
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Prof. Satoshi Konishi |
Fusion EnergyDetailed information about the course will be available later. |
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Prof. Valery Pugatch |
Large Hadron Collider Opens New Horizons in Atom-WorldThe course gives an overview of the latest physics results obtained at the Large Hadron Collider with an emphasis on the nano-technologies applied for the accelerator, detector and readout-electronics production. |
Excursions
Heat pumps laboratory at the Institute of Hydromechanicsconfirmation is expected
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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. |
Scientific and educational centre KPI-Boschconfirmation is expected
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While visiting Research and Education Center for renewable technologies ("NTUU" KPI - Bosch") participants will be able to get acquinted with the latest models of energy-efficient equipment that operate on renewable energy of land, water and sun. Also, they will get to know how management, coordination and organization of educational and scientific work performed by various departments of the University is performed. The visit to this centre will provide participants with newest and the most amazing information about renewable technologies and possibilities of their development in Ukraine. Research and Education Center for renewable technologies was opened in December 2009. The initiative of opening such centre was suggested by Robert Bosch and the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. |
Solar collectors at the Institute for Problems of Materials Sciencesconfirmation is expected
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The visit to the Institute for Problems of Materials Sciences will give an opportunity to find out about the newest technologies in the area of solar energy, the types of solar collectors, their construction the principles of their operation and see solar collectors working. Besides, the participants will be told about the ways of increasing the effectiveness of solar collectors through the application of absorber made from copper sheets and increasing of heat medium temperatures as a result of using multilayer glass coating. M. Frantsevich Insitute for Problems of Materials Sciences (materials for fuel cells production, development of hydrogen storage systems, development of fuel cells) was founded on April 18, 1955. |
