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.
• 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.
• Identify and discuss potential applications of new and emerging technologies in the energy field.
• Plan, manage and carry out projects according to their objectives, resources and constraints, ensuring the quality of activities and deliverables.
• Meet deadlines and work plan and comply with specifications.
• Communicate and exchange information in a structured manner - orally, graphically and in writing, in French and in one or more other languages - at the scientific, cultural, technical and interpersonal levels, adapting to the goal pursued and the audience concerned.
• Argue and convince, both orally and in writing, in front of a client, a colleague, teachers and juries.
• 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

AA1 : Understand the evolution of modern Low Voltage distribution systems
Understand the challenges faced by modern Low Voltage distribution systems
Be able to compute the risk of overvoltage faced by Low Voltage distribution systems with increased penetration of renewables
Be able to evaluate the technico-economic interest of reinforcement solutions in a Low Voltage system
Understand how security of persons is ensured in Low Voltage distribution systems

AA2: Understand and use the basics of heat/cold transportation technologies. Use simple models for computing the energy performance of such technologies. Obtain the skills for using such technologies in complex integrated energy systems.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

AA1: History of distribution systems
Load Flow computation in radial distribution systems : Backward-forward method
Applications to the Load Flow computation in 1-phase and 3-phase distribution systems with/without PV + project
Reinforcement in LV distrbution systems : from 'fit and forget' approach towards risk-based assessment
Protection in LV distribution system : protection of assets and persons, devices

AA2: Description of the different generations of heat/cold networks. Advantages and drawbacks. Heat/cold networks characteristics. Evaluation of heat losses and pressure drops. Sizing rules. Evaluation of the energy performance of a heat/cold network for a given simple case.
 

Prior Experience

Not applicable