Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Imagine, design, build and operate machines, equipment and processes to provide a solution to a complex problem of energy production, conversion and transmission by integrating the needs, constraints, context and technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental issues.
• Identify the complex problem to be solved and develop the specifications by integrating the needs, constraints, context and technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental issues.
• Design and dimension machines, equipment or processes for the production, conversion and transmission of energy in response to the problem posed, based on the state of the art, a study or a model; evaluate them with regard to the various parameters of the specifications.
• Integrate rational energy management.
• Mobilize a structured set of scientific knowledge and skills and specialized techniques to meet, with expertise and adaptability, the missions of the civil engineer in energy engineering.
• Master and appropriately mobilize knowledge, models, methods and techniques related to solid and fluid mechanics, energy exchange, dynamic and vibratory behavior of systems, mechanical manufacturing and production, machine operation, physical phenomena, machines, equipment and processes related to the production, conversion and transmission of energy
• Study a machine, equipment, or process for the production, conversion, or transmission of energy by critically selecting theories, models, and methodological approaches, and by considering multidisciplinary aspects.
• Identify and discuss potential applications of new and emerging technologies in the energy field.
• Act as a responsible, open-minded, and critical professional in an autonomous professional development process.
• Demonstrate openness and critical thinking by comparing the technical and non-technical aspects of the problems analyzed and the solutions proposed.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Electrochemical Processes: solve most of the problems related to the use of electrochemical processes, use Faraday's laws, know how a battery and an electrolyzer work and calculate their efficiency, identify the reactions at the electrodes and the limiting steps of the system studied; identify the losses related to the use of electrochemical processes and the means to reduce them through the choice of materials.

Heat and Cold Production and Storage: use of thermodynamic properties calculation procedures (pure compounds and mixtures). Design and calculate vapor compression refrigeration machines and heat pumps. Calculate the energy performances of sorption refrigeration machines and heat pumps. Analyse complex energy processes. Be familiar with refrigerant nomenclature. Describe the role of the technical components of a refrigeration machine. Understand the working principle of main heat and cold storage technologies.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Both learning activities rely on the same thermo-physical processes.

Electrochemical Processes: electroactivity of water; batteries and electrolyzers; electrolytic medium; electrodes and their potential; principles of thermodynamics applied to electrochemistry; conductivity (ohmic drop) and transport numbers; activation overpotential; diffusion overpotential; choice of materials to optimize the performance of electrochemical processes.

Heat and Cold Production and Storage: analysis of complex energy production systems. Develop simulation tools for refrigeration machines and heat pumps performance calculations. Sorption machines: fundamental concepts. Introduction to heat pumping technologies for space heating. Introduction to heat and cold storage technologies.

Prior Experience

Fundamentals in Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Fluid mechanics and machines and in Thermal science.