RE Integration
Courses
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course Smart Grids the students are able to:
- understand the key drivers as well as design principles of the smart grid (communication)
- evaluate the communication infrastructure required to set up smart grids
Content
- Overview of smart grids and smart grid communications (SGC)
- Power generation:
- equipment-conditioning information and load conditions of the generation equipment
- Transmission:
- state of high-voltage power lines
- devices in the transmission substations
- power lines and feeders
- Consumers:
- overall power-usage information (meter reading) and information about power usage by devices inside the home
- automatic meter reading
- advanced metering infrastructure
- privacy issues in smart grids
- Communication technologies used in SGC:
- power line communications
- fiber optic communications
- wireless devices
- Demand Response Management (DR):
- utility companies and energy load management/reduction
- factors for DR programs
- automation of DR as key concept which helps to reduce human intervention and increases accuracy and responsiveness to the DR program
- SGC:
- activities in standardization bodies on SGC
- practical experience gained in SGC lab experiments
Details
- Lecturer: Marc Selig
- Teaching method: lecture, lab training
- SWS: 3
- Credit points: 3
- Examination: group presentations; oral/written exam
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course Flexible Generation and Demand Side Management the students are able to:
- understand the requirements for balancing fluctuating renewable power generation and select solutions for these different requirements
- estimate potentials and costs in the control of flexible generators and consumers in domestic and industrial applications
Content
- Possibilities and potentials of flexible power generation
- Differences in temporal power availability
- Defining requirements
- Different plant operations to cover residual load under present conditions of power generation
- Discussing possible flexible balancing solutions
- DSM potentials:
- classification
- describing actual DSM potentials by the state of charge
- Lab for practical experience with flexible power generation under central European conditions
Details
- Lecturer: John Sievers
- Teaching method: lecture, lab training
- SWS: 2
- Credit points: 2
- Examination: written/oral exam
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course Biogas the students are able to:
- determine bio mass potentials taking into account different bio mass conversion processes and local potentials
- analyse the sustainability of the whole value chain
Content
- Different types of biomass and the efficiency of their production:
- energy plants
- organic waste
- agricultural residuals
- Different ways of using biomass and conversion paths:
- combustion of solid bio mass
- thermo chemical gasification
- anaerobic digestion
- bio fuels
- Bio gas as energy source:
- components and processes of gasification
- combustion basics with respect to biomass conversion
- Integration of bio energy in conventional and RE systems
Details
- Lecturer: Bernd Krautkremer
- Teaching method: lecture, group work
- SWS: 2
- Credit points: 2
- Examination: written/oral exam; report