Module Manual

Master

Renewable Energies

Cohort: Winter Term 2015

Updated: 23rd May 2016

Program description

Content

In recent decades energy consumption and the associated man-made repercussions on the environment have steadily increased and the (perceived) security of supplies has decreased. This trend can be expected to continue. Increased use of renewable energies - these being hydroelectric, wind and solar power, biomass and geothermal energy - in the electricity, heating and fuel market can make a major contribution toward facing these challenges.

On completing this master’s program in Renewable Energies, graduates are able to explain and assess the possibilities of and limits to the provision of energy for the heating, electricity and fuel market by the renewable energy sources sun, geothermal heat and planetary gravitation and movement. These explanations are primarily from the technical but also from the economic and ecological viewpoint. Graduates can provide an overview of the physical and chemical characteristics of renewable energy sources, have understood the fundamental technical principles of their use and can assess the resulting technical and technological requirements of the requisite conversion plant technology. They can also assess the plant and system technology and the economic and ecological basics of the individual options for renewable energy supply. Graduates have an overview of aspects for integration of plants and systems based on renewable energies into the existing energy system – both in Germany and in non-European countries. Furthermore they can discuss issues of energy storage and the development of renewable energy projects with experts. This specialized knowledge and related skills also enable graduates to take up a position on current energy industry issues on a sound and ideology-free basis. As a result of this master’s program they are qualified to advise interested parties in a professional capacity or to formulate independently problems and objectives for new application - or research-oriented tasks.

A further in-depth specialization, as a part of the master’s program, in the renewable energies biomass or wind power is possible. Thus, the program provides a comprehensive knowledge on practically all options of renewable energy supply, it’s utilization in the energy system – taking existing structures into account – and on selected associated technical, economic and ecological aspects.



Core qualification

Within the core qualification of the Master "Renewable energies" the students gain knowledge about the possibilities and limitations of energy supply from the various renewable energy sources for the heat, electricity and fuel market.
Basis for this aim are on one hand the courses of consecutive Bachelor courses and on the other hand continuing and applied courses in the field of electrical engineering, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.
Continuing to these courses the different principles for the use of renewable energies and the resulting requirements on the corresponding conversion plant technology are presented, primarily from a technical perspective. Nonetheless, this knowledge is linked to economic and environmental context, to understand and to evaluate the integration of renewable energy applications in energy systems - both in Germany, Europe and countries outside Europe. Furthermore, energy storage opportunities are discussed in this context.
Within the module "Projects and their Assessment", non-technical aspects of the implementation of projects especially in the field of renewable energies are considered, to provide background information in the legal and economic energy implementation of renewable energy applications.

Module M0508: Fluid Mechanics and Ocean Energy

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Energy from the Ocean (L0002) Lecture 2 2
Fluid Mechanics II (L0001) Lecture 2 4
Module Responsible Prof. Michael Schlüter
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Technische Thermodynamik I-II
Wärme- und Stoffübertragung

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students are able to describe different applications of fluid mechanics for the field of Renewable Energies. They are able to use the fundamentals of fluid mechanics for calculations of certain engineering problems in the field of ocean energy. The students are able to estimate if a problem can be solved with an analytical solution and what kind of alternative possibilities are available (e.g. self-similarity, empirical solutions, numerical methods).

Skills

Students are able to use the governing equations of Fluid Dynamics for the design of technical processes. Especially they are able to formulate momentum and mass balances to optimize the hydrodynamics of technical processes. They are able to transform a verbal formulated message into an abstract formal procedure.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

The students are able to discuss a given problem in small groups and to develop an approach.

Autonomy

Students are able to define independently tasks for problems related to fluid mechanics. They are able to work out the knowledge that is necessary to solve the problem by themselves on the basis of the existing knowledge from the lecture.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 124, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 3h
Assignment for the Following Curricula Energy Systems: Core qualification: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Renewable Energy: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Theoretical Mechanical Engineering: Specialisation Energy Systems: Elective Compulsory
Course L0002: Energy from the Ocean
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  1. Introduction to ocean energy conversion
  2. Wave properties
    • Linear wave theory
    • Nonlinear wave theory
    • Irregular waves
    • Wave energy
    • Refraction, reflection and diffraction of waves
  3. Wave energy converters
    • Overview of the different technologies
    • Methods for design and calculation
  4. Ocean current turbine
Literature
  • Cruz, J., Ocean wave energy, Springer Series in Green Energy and Technology, UK, 2008.
  • Brooke, J., Wave energy conversion, Elsevier, 2003.
  • McCormick, M.E., Ocean wave energy conversion, Courier Dover Publications, USA, 2013.
  • Falnes, J., Ocean waves and oscillating systems, Cambridge University Press,UK, 2002.
  • Charlier, R. H., Charles, W. F., Ocean energy. Tide and tidal Power. Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.
  • Clauss, G. F., Lehmann, E., Östergaard, C., Offshore Structures. Volume 1, Conceptual Design. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1992


Course L0001: Fluid Mechanics II
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 4
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 92, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Michael Schlüter
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Differential equations for momentum-, heat and mass transfer   
  • Examples for simplifications of the Navier-Stokes Equations 
  • Unsteady momentum transfer
  • Free shear layer, turbulence and free jets
  • Flow around particles - Solids Process Engineering
  • Coupling of momentum and heat transfer - Thermal Process Engineering
  • Rheology – Bioprocess Engineering
  • Coupling of momentum- and mass transfer – Reactive mixing, Chemical Process Engineering 
  • Flow threw porous structures - heterogeneous catalysis
  • Pumps and turbines - Energy- and Environmental Process Engineering 
  • Wind- and Wave-Turbines - Renewable Energy
  • Introduction into Computational Fluid Dynamics

Literature
  1. Brauer, H.: Grundlagen der Einphasen- und Mehrphasenströmungen. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt (M), 1971.
  2. Brauer, H.; Mewes, D.: Stoffaustausch einschließlich chemischer Reaktion. Frankfurt: Sauerländer 1972.
  3. Crowe, C. T.: Engineering fluid mechanics. Wiley, New York, 2009.
  4. Durst, F.: Strömungsmechanik: Einführung in die Theorie der Strömungen von Fluiden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.
  5. Fox, R.W.; et al.: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics. J. Wiley & Sons, 1994.
  6. Herwig, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Eine Einführung in die Physik und die mathematische Modellierung von Strömungen. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2006.
  7. Herwig, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Einführung in die Physik von technischen Strömungen: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2008.
  8. Kuhlmann, H.C.:  Strömungsmechanik. München, Pearson Studium, 2007
  9. Oertl, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Grundlagen, Grundgleichungen, Lösungsmethoden, Softwarebeispiele. Vieweg+ Teubner / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2009.
  10. Schade, H.; Kunz, E.: Strömungslehre. Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2007.
  11. Truckenbrodt, E.: Fluidmechanik 1: Grundlagen und elementare Strömungsvorgänge dichtebeständiger Fluide. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.
  12. Schlichting, H. : Grenzschicht-Theorie. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
  13. van Dyke, M.: An Album of Fluid Motion. The Parabolic Press, Stanford California, 1882.  

Module M0510: Bioenergy and Logistics

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Energy from Biomass (L0008) Lecture 2 2
Energy from Biomass (L0138) Recitation Section (small) 1 1
Transport Logistics (L0009) Project Seminar 2 2
Sustainable Mobility (L0010) Lecture 2 1
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge none
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

Students are able to reproduce an in-depth outline of energy production from biomass, aerobic and anaerobic waste treatment processes, the gained products and the treatment of produced emissions. They can provide an overview in this context about the features, advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transport and several logistic concepts for transportation of biomass.

Skills

Students can apply the learned theoretical knowledge of biomass-based energy systems to explain relationships for different tasks, like dimesioning and design of biomass power plants.  In this context, students are also able to solve computational tasks for combustion, gasification and biogas, biodiesel and bioethanol use.
They are able to build logistic chains and to apply tools and methods for the evaluation of these.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

Students can participate in discussions to design and evaluate logistic concepts for the transportation of biomass.

Autonomy

Students can independently exploit sources with respect to the emphasis of the lectures. They can choose and aquire the for the particular task useful knowledge. Furthermore, they can solve computational tasks of biomass-based energy systems independently with the assistance of the lecture. Regarding to this they can assess their specific learning level and can consequently define the further workflow. 

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 82, Study Time in Lecture 98
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 2 Stunden
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy Systems: Specialisation Energy Systems: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Renewable Energy: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Course L0008: Energy from Biomass
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE/EN
Cycle WiSe
Content

Goal of this course is it to discuss the physical, chemical, and biological as well as the technical, economic, and environmental basics of all options to provide energy from biomass from a German and international point of view. Additionally different system approaches to use biomass for energy, aspects to integrate bioenergy within the energy system, technical and economic development potentials, and the current and expected future use within the energy system are presented.

The course is structured as follows:

  • Biomass as an energy carrier within the energy system; use of biomass in Germany and world-wide, overview on the content of the course
  • Photosynthesis, composition of organic matter, plant production, energy crops, residues, organic waste
  • Biomass provision chains for woody and herbaceous biomass, harvesting and provision, transport, storage, drying
  • Thermo-chemical conversion of solid biofuels
    • Basics of thermo-chemical conversion
    • Direct thermo-chemical conversion through combustion: combustion technologies for small and large scale units, electricity generation technologies, flue gas treatment technologies, ashes and their use
    • Gasification: Gasification technologies, producer gas cleaning technologies, options to use the cleaned producer gas for the provision of heat, electricity and/or fuels
    • Fast and slow pyrolysis: Technologies for the provision of bio-oil and/or for the provision of charcoal, oil cleaning technologies, options to use the pyrolysis oil and charcoal as an energy carrier as well as a raw material
  • Physical-chemical conversion of biomass containing oils and/or fats: Basics, oil seeds and oil fruits, vegetable oil production, production of a biofuel with standardized characteristics (trans-esterification, hydrogenation, co-processing in existing refineries), options to use this fuel, options to use the residues (i.e. meal, glycerine)
  • Bio-chemical conversion of biomass
    • Basics of bio-chemical conversion
    • Biogas: Process technologies for plants using agricultural feedstock, sewage sludge (sewage gas), organic waste fraction (landfill gas), technologies for the provision of bio methane, use of the digested slurry
    • Ethanol production: Process technologies for feedstock containing sugar, starch or celluloses, use of ethanol as a fuel, use of the stillage


Literature

Kaltschmitt, M.; Hartmann, H. (Hrsg.): Energie aus Biomasse; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, 2. Auflage

Course L0138: Energy from Biomass
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content

Exercises to:    

  • Logistics
  • Combustion calculation
  • Calculation of calorific value and emission
  • Gasification
  • Biodiesel
  • Biogas
  • Bioethanol
Literature

Kaltschmitt, M.; Hartmann, H. (Hrsg.): Energie aus Biomasse; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, 2. Auflage

Course L0009: Transport Logistics
Typ Project Seminar
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Heike Flämig
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content

Depending on the chosen focus of the academic year:

  • characteristics of different transport systems
  • technologies, structures and processes of transport logistics systems (nodes, network, interactions)
  • location and route planning
  • connections of information flow and material flows in transport chains
  • interrelation between private and private (contract logistics) and private and public (business policy, transport policy) and their (diverging)
  • design approaches for sustainable logistics
Literature

Ihde, Gösta B.: Transport, Verkehr, Logistik. Gesamtwirtschaftliche Aspekte und einzelwirtschaftliche Handhabung. 3. überarbeitete Auflage. Vahlen, München 2001

Course L0010: Sustainable Mobility
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 2, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Dr. Karsten Wilbrand
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Global megatrends and future challenges of energy supply
  • Energy Scenarios to 2060 and importance for the mobility sector
  • Sustainable air, sea, rail and road traffic
  • Developments in vehicle and drive technology
  • Overview of Today's fuels (production and use)
  • Biofuels of 1 and 2 Generation (availability, production, compatibility)
  • Natural gas (GTL, CNG, LNG)
  • Electromobility based on batteries and hydrogen fuel cell
  • Well-to-Wheel CO2 analysis of the various options
  • Legal framework for people and freight
Literature
  • Eigene Unterlagen
  • Veröffentlichungen
  • Fachliteratur


Module M0524: Nontechnical Elective Complementary Courses for Master

Module Responsible Dagmar Richter
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge None
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The Non-technical Elective Study Area

imparts skills that, in view of the TUHH’s training profile, professional engineering studies require but are not able to cover fully. Self-reliance, self-management, collaboration and professional and personnel management competences. The department implements these training objectives in its teaching architecture, in its teaching and learning arrangements, in teaching areas and by means of teaching offerings in which students can qualify by opting for specific competences and a competence level at the Bachelor’s or Master’s level. The teaching offerings are pooled in two different catalogues for nontechnical complementary courses.

The Learning Architecture

consists of a cross-disciplinarily study offering. The centrally designed teaching offering ensures that courses in the “non-technical department” follow the specific profiling of TUHH degree courses.

The learning architecture demands and trains independent educational planning as regards the individual development of competences. It also provides orientation knowledge in the form of “profiles”.

The subjects that can be studied in parallel throughout the student’s entire study program - if need be, it can be studied in one to two semesters. In view of the adaptation problems that individuals commonly face in their first semesters after making the transition from school to university and in order to encourage individually planned semesters abroad, there is no obligation to study these subjects in one or two specific semesters during the course of studies.

Teaching and Learning Arrangements

provide for students, separated into B.Sc. and M.Sc., to learn with and from each other across semesters. The challenge of dealing with interdisciplinarity and a variety of stages of learning in courses are part of the learning architecture and are deliberately encouraged in specific courses.

Fields of Teaching

are based on research findings from the academic disciplines cultural studies, social studies, arts, historical studies, communication studies and sustainability research, and from engineering didactics. In addition, from the winter semester 2014/15 students on all Bachelor’s courses will have the opportunity to learn about business management and start-ups in a goal-oriented way.

The fields of teaching are augmented by soft skills offers and a foreign language offer. Here, the focus is on encouraging goal-oriented communication skills, e.g. the skills required by outgoing engineers in international and intercultural situations.

The Competence Level

of the courses offered in this area is different as regards the basic training objective in the Bachelor’s and Master’s fields. These differences are reflected in the practical examples used, in content topics that refer to different professional application contexts, and in the higher scientific and theoretical level of abstraction in the B.Sc.

This is also reflected in the different quality of soft skills, which relate to the different team positions and different group leadership functions of Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates in their future working life.

Specialized Competence (Knowledge)

Students can

  • explain specialized areas in context of the relevant non-technical disciplines,
  • outline basic theories, categories, terminology, models, concepts or artistic techniques in the disciplines represented in the learning area,
  • different specialist disciplines relate to their own discipline and differentiate it as well as make connections, 
  • sketch the basic outlines of how scientific disciplines, paradigms, models, instruments, methods and forms of representation in the specialized sciences are subject to individual and socio-cultural interpretation and historicity,
  • Can communicate in a foreign language in a manner appropriate to the subject.
Skills

Professional Competence (Skills)

In selected sub-areas students can

  • apply basic and specific methods of the said scientific disciplines,
  • aquestion a specific technical phenomena, models, theories from the viewpoint of another, aforementioned specialist discipline,
  • to handle simple and advanced questions in aforementioned scientific disciplines in a sucsessful manner,
  • justify their decisions on forms of organization and application in practical questions in contexts that go beyond the technical relationship to the subject.



Personal Competence
Social Competence

Personal Competences (Social Skills)

Students will be able

  • to learn to collaborate in different manner,
  • to present and analyze problems in the abovementioned fields in a partner or group situation in a manner appropriate to the addressees,
  • to express themselves competently, in a culturally appropriate and gender-sensitive manner in the language of the country (as far as this study-focus would be chosen), 
  • to explain nontechnical items to auditorium with technical background knowledge.





Autonomy

Personal Competences (Self-reliance)

Students are able in selected areas

  • to reflect on their own profession and professionalism in the context of real-life fields of application
  • to organize themselves and their own learning processes      
  • to reflect and decide questions in front of a broad education background
  • to communicate a nontechnical item in a competent way in writen form or verbaly
  • to organize themselves as an entrepreneurial subject country (as far as this study-focus would be chosen)     



Workload in Hours Depends on choice of courses
Credit points 6
Courses
Information regarding lectures and courses can be found in the corresponding module handbook published separately.

Module M0509: Projects and their Assessment

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Development of Renewable Energy Projects (L0003) Lecture 2 2
Sustainability Management (L0007) Lecture 2 2
Legal Aspects Related to the Use of Renewable Sources of Energy (L0004) Seminar 2 2
Economics of an Energy Provision from Renewables (L0005) Lecture 1 1
Economics of an Energy Provision from Renewables (L0006) Project Seminar 1 1
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Environmental Assessment

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

By ending this module, students can describe the planning and development of projects using renewable energy sources. Furthermore they are able to explain the special emphasis on the economic and legal aspects in this context.




Skills

By ending the module the students can apply the learned theoretical foundations of the development of renewable energy projects to exemplary energy projects and can explain technically and conceptually the resulting correlations with respect to legal and economic requirements.

As a basis for the design of renewable energy systems they can calculate the demand for thermal and/or electrical energy at operating and regional level. Regarding to this calculation they can choose and dimension possible energy systems. 

To assess sustainability aspects of renewable energy projects, the students can choose and discuss the right methodology according to the particular task. 



Personal Competence
Social Competence

Students will be able to edit scientific tasks in the context of the economic analysis of renewable energy projects in a group with a high number of participants and can organize the processing time within the group. They can perform subject-specific and interdisciplinary discussions. Consequently, they can asses the knowledge of their fellow students and are able to deal with feedback on their own performance. Students can present their group results in front of others.




Autonomy

Regarding to the contents of the lectures and to solve the tasks for the economical analysis of renewable energy projects the students are able to exploit sources and acquire the particular knowledge about the subject area independently and self-organized. Based on this expertise they are able to use indenpendently calculation methods for these tasks. Regarding to these calculations, guided by the lecturers, the students can recognize self-organized theri personal level of knowledge.



Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 128, Study Time in Lecture 112
Credit points 8
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale
Assignment for the Following Curricula Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Course L0003: Development of Renewable Energy Projects
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Development of renewable energy projects from the analysis of the local situation to the final energy project: what steps have to be completed in order to implement a successful regenerative energy project and what factors must be considered
  • Survey of energy demand; methods to collect the demand for thermal and/or electrical energy at operational and regional level until the point of a development of an energy master plan
  • Technology of renewable energy: how to combine the various options for using renewable energy with different supply situation in the most reasonable way? How can under certain conditions ideal combinations look like?
  • Feasibility study, requirements and content of a feasibility study
  • Legal framework for plant construction; representation of authorization rights, including the entire formal procedure for the different approval procedures in the context of the BImSch legislation; further legal requirements (including laws pertaining to construction, water and waterways, noise, etc.
  • Company structures; which company structure is the most appropriate
    for the various applications? What are the pros and cons?
  • Risk management: how the risks of renewable energy projects
    can be best determined? How the minimizing of risk can be ensured?
  • Insurance: which kinds of insurance exit? Why do you need insurance? What requirements must be met in order to obtain certain types of insurance for certain renewable energy projects for the construction and operational phase?
  • Acceptance: how the acceptance of an application for the use of renewable energy can be assessed and improved? How the acceptance can be measured?
  • Organization of realization of a project: how the construction phase of a renewable energy system is organized after the end of the planning period?
  • Acceptance: Which are the acceptance steps until the regular continuous operation (VOB acceptance, safety acceptance, approval by authority)
  • Examples: good and less good examples of project development
Literature
  • Script zur Vorlesung mit Literaturhinweisen


Course L0007: Sustainability Management
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt, Prof. Timo Busch
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content

The lecture sustainability management provide an insight into the various aspects and dimensions of sustainability. This content of the course is based on the foundations of environmental assessment; therefore the previous attendance of the lecture environmental assessment is recommended. Various valuation approaches for assessing environmental, economic and social aspects are presented. Their application and use for a sustainability management's discussion is explained by means of short technology examples and is later comprehensively presented through case examples.

  • Introduction to the topic of sustainability
  • Dimensions of sustainability:
    • ecology
    • economics
    • social
  • Transition from the environmental assessment for sustainability management
  • Case Studies
  • Excursion

    Objective: The aim of the course is to learn methods for the assessment of sustainability aspects and apply for sustainability management.
Literature

Engelfried, J. (2011) Nachhaltiges Umweltmanagement. München: Oldenbourg Verlag. 2. Auflage

Corsten H., Roth S. (Hrsg.) (2011) Nachhaltigkeit - Unternehmerisches Handeln in globaler Verantwortung. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag.


Course L0004: Legal Aspects Related to the Use of Renewable Sources of Energy
Typ Seminar
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Marian Paschke
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content

The seminar addresses the central legal issues of renewable energies. These are defined in the German legislation, especially in the Renewable Energies Act (EEG). This law, together with the accompanying laws (such as the Energy Act - Energy Industry Act ), is currently in the political process of a expected fundamental restructuring. The seminar deal with the basics of the current law, its European legal framework and resulting legal and political challenges in the conflict situation of particular energy, economic, environmental and climate policy requirements of a modern law for renewable energies. It covers the area of law in its organizational and operational content of the legal aspects of investment planning, to installation permit and the plant construction and operation. It broaches the legal issues of the energy market design, the law of energy competition and regulation, as well as the entirety of public and private energy law. The legal requirements and frameworks for the private and administrative aspects of the production and distribution of renewable energies are treated. The national, European and international rules will be concerned within thematically topics.

Topics:

  • Investment planning
    • Planning law for onshore and offshore installations
  • Installation permit
    • Approval procedures (including the BauGB, BimSchG, NaturSchG, WasserG)
    • Legal assistance in the approval process
    • Summary proceedings and urgent decisions
  • Plant construction
    • Legal issues of civil law system construction contracts (contract law, tort law, warranties,warranty law, private international law)
  • Plant operation
    • Regulatory system monitoring
    • Legal issues of the current injection
    • Special issues of the plants (especially biomass, combined heat and power, photovoltaic and wind energy systems)
  • Power law
    • Legal issues of the network construction
    • Legal issues of network operation
  • Energy regulatory and antitrust law
    • Tasks of the Federal Network Agency
    • Energy price right
Literature Script zur Vorlesung
Course L0005: Economics of an Energy Provision from Renewables
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Andreas Wiese
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Introduction: definitions; importance of cost and profitability statements for projects in the "Renewable Energies"; prices and costs; efficiency of energy systems versus profitability of individual project
  • Cost estimates and cost calculations
    • Definitions
    • Cost calculation
    • Cost estimation
    • Calculation of costs for the provision of work and power
    • Cost summaries for renewable energy technologies
    • Energy Storage: cost overviews; impact on the cost of renewable energy projects
  • Efficiency calculation
    • Definitions
    • Methods: static methods, dynamic methods (eg. LCOE (levelised cost of electricity))
    • Economic versus national economic approach
    • Power and work in cost accounting
    • Energy storage and its influence on the efficiency calculation
  • The due diligence process as an attendant of economic analysis
  • Consideration of uncertainty in projects for renewable energy
    • Definitions
    • Technical uncertainty
    • Cost uncertainties
    • Other uncertainties
  • Project financing
    • Definitions
    • Project -versus corporate finance
    • Funding models
    • Equity ratio , DSCR
    • Treatment of risks in project financing
    • Funding opportunities for renewable energy projects
    • Possible funding approaches
    • Legal requirements in Germany (EEG )
    • Emissions trading and carbon credits
Literature

Script der Vorlesung


Course L0006: Economics of an Energy Provision from Renewables
Typ Project Seminar
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Andreas Wiese
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content

Calculation of tasks to evaluate the economics of a renewable energy project, with the aim to deepen the complex knowledge of economic analysis and market analysis. Processing is carried out individually or in smaller groups. The following topics are covered:    

  • Stat. and dyn. calculation of profitability
  • Cost estimate plus stat. and dyn. calculation of profitability
  • sensitivity analysis
  • joint production
  • Grid parity calculation



Literature Skript der Vorlesung

Module M0523: Business & Management

Module Responsible Prof. Matthias Meyer
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge None
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge
  • Students are able to find their way around selected special areas of management within the scope of business management.
  • Students are able to explain basic theories, categories, and models in selected special areas of business management.
  • Students are able to interrelate technical and management knowledge.


Skills
  • Students are able to apply basic methods in selected areas of business management.
  • Students are able to explain and give reasons for decision proposals on practical issues in areas of business management.


Personal Competence
Social Competence
Autonomy
  • Students are capable of acquiring necessary knowledge independently by means of research and preparation of material.


Workload in Hours Depends on choice of courses
Credit points 6
Courses
Information regarding lectures and courses can be found in the corresponding module handbook published separately.

Module M0511: Electricity Generation from Wind and Hydro Power

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Renewable Energy Projects in Emerged Markets (L0014) Project Seminar 1 1
Hydro Power Use (L0013) Lecture 1 1
Wind Turbine Plants (L0011) Lecture 2 3
Wind Energy Use – Focus Offshore (L0012) Lecture 1 1
Module Responsible Dr. Joachim Gerth
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Fundamentals of Fluid Flow Engines

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

By ending this module students can explain in detail knowledge of wind turbines with a particular focus of wind energy use in offshore conditions and can critical comment these aspects in consideration of current developments. Furthermore, they are able to describe fundamentally the use of water power to generate electricity. The students reproduce and explain the basic procedure in the implementation of renewable energy projects in countries outside Europe.

Skills  Students are able to apply the acquired theoretical foundations on exemplary water or wind power systems and evaluate and assess technically the resulting relationships in the context of dimensioning and operation of these energy systems. They can in compare critically the special procedure for the implementation of renewable energy projects in countries outside Europe with the in principle applied approach in Europe and can apply this procedure on exemplary theoretical projects.

Personal Competence
Social Competence  Students can discuss scientific tasks subjet-specificly and multidisciplinary within a seminar.

Autonomy

Students can independently exploit sources in the context of the emphasis of the lecture material to clear the contents of the lecture and to acquire the particular knowledge about the subject area.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 3 hours written exam
Assignment for the Following Curricula Civil Engineering: Specialisation Structural Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Civil Engineering: Specialisation Geotechnical Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Civil Engineering: Specialisation Coastal Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Energy Engineering: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Renewable Energy: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Product Development, Materials and Production: Specialisation Product Development: Elective Compulsory
Product Development, Materials and Production: Specialisation Production: Elective Compulsory
Product Development, Materials and Production: Specialisation Materials: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Environment: Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Cities: Elective Compulsory
Course L0014: Renewable Energy Projects in Emerged Markets
Typ Project Seminar
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Andreas Wiese
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  1. Introduction
    • Development of renewable energies worldwide
      • History
      • Future markets
    • Special challenges in new markets - Overview
  2. Sample project wind farm Korea
    • Survey
    • Technical Description
    • Project phases and characteristics
  3. Funding and financing instruments for EE projects in new markets
    • Overview funding opportunitie
    • Overview countries with feed-in laws
    • Major funding programs
  4. CDM projects - why, how , examples
    • Overview CDM process
    • Examples
    • Exercise CDM
  5. Rural electrification and hybrid systems - an important future market for EE
    • Rural Electrification - Introduction
    • Types of Elektrizifierungsprojekten
    • The role of the EEInterpretation of hybrid systems
    • Project example: hybrid system Galapagos Islands
  6. Tendering process for EE projects - examples
    • South Africa
    • Brazil
  7. Selected projects from the perspective of a development bank - Wesley Urena Vargas, KfW Development Bank
    • Geothermal
    • Wind or CSP

Literature Folien der Vorlesung
Course L0013: Hydro Power Use
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Stephan Heimerl
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Introduction, importance of water power in the national and global context
  • Physical basics: Bernoulli's equation, usable height of fall, hydrological measures, loss mechanisms, efficiencies
  • Classification of Hydropower: Flow and Storage hydropower, low and high pressure systems
  • Construction of hydroelectric power plants: description of the individual components and their technical system interaction
  • Structural engineering components; representation of dams, weirs, dams, power houses, computer systems, etc.
  • Energy Technical Components: Illustration of the different types of hydraulic machinery, generators and grid connection
  • Hydropower and the Environment
  • Examples from practice

Literature
  • Schröder, W.; Euler, G.; Schneider, K.: Grundlagen des Wasserbaus; Werner, Düsseldorf, 1999, 4. Auflage
  • Quaschning, V.: Regenerative Energiesysteme: Technologie – Berechnung - Simulation; Carl Hanser, München, 2011, 7. Auflage
  • Giesecke, J.; Heimerl, S.; Mosony, E.: Wasserkraftanlagen ‑ Planung, Bau und Betrieb; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, 5. Auflage
  • von König, F.; Jehle, C.: Bau von Wasserkraftanlagen – Praxisbezogene Planungsunterlagen; C. F. Müller, Heidelberg, 2005, 4. Auflage
  • Strobl, T.; Zunic, F.: Wasserbau: Aktuelle Grundlagen – Neue Entwicklungen; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006


Course L0011: Wind Turbine Plants
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Dr. Rudolf Zellermann
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Historical development
  • Wind: origins, geographic and temporal distribution, locations
  • Power coefficient, rotor thrust
  • Aerodynamics of the rotor
  • Operating performance
  • Power limitation, partial load, pitch and stall control
  • Plant selection, yield prediction, economy
  • Excursion
Literature

Gasch, R., Windkraftanlagen, 4. Auflage, Teubner-Verlag, 2005


Course L0012: Wind Energy Use – Focus Offshore
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Prof. Martin Skiba
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Introduction, importance of offshore wind power generation, Specific requirements for offshore engineering
  • Physical fundamentals for utilization of wind energy
  • Design and operation of offshore wind turbines, presentation of different concepts of offshore wind turbines, representation of the individual system components and their system-technical relationships
  • Foundation engineering, offshore site investigation, presentation of different concepts of offshore foundation structures, planning and fabrication of foundation structures
  • Electrical infrastructure of an offshore wind farm, Inner Park cabling, offshore substation, grid connection
  • Installation of offshore wind farms, installation techniques and auxiliary devices, construction logistics
  • Development and planning of offshore wind farms
  • Operation and optimization of offshore wind farms
  • Day excursion
Literature
  • Gasch, R.; Twele, J.: Windkraftanlagen – Grundlagen, Entwurf, Planung und Betrieb; Vieweg + Teubner, Stuttgart, 2007, 7. Auflage
  • Molly, J. P.: Windenergie – Theorie, Anwendung, Messung; C. F. Müller, Heidel-berg, 1997, 3. Auflage
  • Hau, E.: Windkraftanalagen; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, 4.Auflage
  • Heier, S.: Windkraftanlagen – Systemauslegung, Integration und Regelung; Vieweg + Teubner, Stuttgart, 2009, 5. Auflage
  • Jarass, L.; Obermair, G.M.; Voigt, W.: Windenergie: Zuverlässige Integration in die Energieversorgung; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, 2. Auflage


Module M0512: Use of Solar Energy

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Collector Technology (L0018) Lecture 2 2
Solar Power Generation (L0015) Lecture 2 2
Radiation and Optic (L0016) Lecture 1 1
Radiation and Optic (L0017) Recitation Section (small) 1 1
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge none
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

With the completion of this module, students will be able to deal with technical foundations and current issues and problems in the field of solar energy and explain and evaulate these critically in consideration of the prior curriculum and current subject specific issues. In particular they can professionally describe the processes within a solar cell and explain the specific features of application of solar modules. Furthermore, they can provide an overview of the collector technology in solar thermal systems.

Skills

Students can apply the acquired theoretical foundations of exemplary energy systems using solar radiation. In this context, for example they can assess and evaluate potential and constraints of solar energy systems with respect to different geographical assumptions. They are able to dimension solar energy systems in consideration of technical aspects and given assumptions. Using module-comprehensive knowledge students can evalute the economic and ecologic conditions of these systems. They can select calculation methods within the radiation theory for these topics. 


Personal Competence
Social Competence


Autonomy

Students can independently exploit sources and acquire the particular knowledge about the subject area with respect to emphasis fo the lectures. Furthermore, with the assistance of lecturers, they can discrete use calculation methods for analysing and dimensioning solar energy systems. Based on this procedure they can concrete assess their specific learning level and can consequently define the further workflow. 

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 96, Study Time in Lecture 84
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 3 hours written exam
Assignment for the Following Curricula Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Renewable Energy: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Theoretical Mechanical Engineering: Specialisation Energy Systems: Elective Compulsory
Course L0018: Collector Technology
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Agis Papadopoulos
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Introduction: Energy demand and application of solar energy.
  • Heat transfer in the solar thermal energy: conduction, convection, radiation.
  • Collectors: Types, structure, efficiency, dimensioning, concentrated systems.
  • Energy storage: Requirements, types.
  • Passive solar energy: components and systems.
  • Solar thermal low temperature systems: collector variants, construction, calculation.
  • Solar thermal high temperature systems: Classification of solar power plants construction.
  • Solar air conditioning.
Literature
  • Vorlesungsskript.
  • Kaltschmitt, Streicher und Wiese (Hrsg.). Erneuerbare Energien: Systemtechnik, Wirtschaftlichkeit, Umweltaspekte, 5. Auflage, Springer, 2013.
  • Stieglitz und Heinzel .Thermische Solarenergie: Grundlagen, Technologie, Anwendungen. Springer, 2012.
  • Von Böckh und Wetzel. Wärmeübertragung: Grundlagen und Praxis, Springer, 2011.
  • Baehr und Stephan. Wärme- und Stoffübertragung. Springer, 2009.
  • de Vos. Thermodynamics of solar energy conversion. Wiley-VCH, 2008.
  • Mohr, Svoboda und Unger. Praxis solarthermischer Kraftwerke. Springer, 1999.


Course L0015: Solar Power Generation
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Martin Schlecht, Dietmar Obst
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  1. Introduction
  2. Primary energy and consumption, available solar energy
  3. Physics of the ideal solar cell
  4. Light absorption PN junction characteristic values ​​of the solar cell efficiency
  5. Physics of the real solar cell
  6. Charge carrier recombination characteristics, junction layer recombination, equivalent circuit
  7. Increasing the efficiency
  8. Methods for increasing the quantum yield, and reduction of recombination
  9. Straight and tandem structures
  10. Hetero-junction, Schottky, electrochemical, MIS and SIS-cell tandem cell
  11. Concentrator
  12. Concentrator optics and tracking systems
  13. Technology and properties: types of solar cells, manufacture, single crystal silicon and gallium arsenide, polycrystalline silicon, and silicon thin film cells, thin-film cells on carriers (amorphous silicon, CIS, electrochemical cells)
  14. Modules
  15. Circuits


Literature
  • A. Götzberger, B. Voß, J. Knobloch: Sonnenenergie: Photovoltaik, Teubner Studienskripten, Stuttgart, 1995
  • A. Götzberger: Sonnenenergie: Photovoltaik : Physik und Technologie der Solarzelle, Teubner Stuttgart, 1994
  • H.-J. Lewerenz, H. Jungblut: Photovoltaik, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1995
  • A. Götzberger: Photovoltaic solar energy generation, Springer, Berlin, 2005
  • C. Hu, R. M. White: Solar CelIs, Mc Graw HilI, New York, 1983
  • H.-G. Wagemann: Grundlagen der photovoltaischen Energiewandlung: Solarstrahlung, Halbleitereigenschaften und Solarzellenkonzepte, Teubner, Stuttgart, 1994
  • R. J. van Overstraeten, R.P. Mertens: Physics, technology and use of photovoltaics, Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol and Boston, 1986
  • B. O. Seraphin: Solar energy conversion Topics of applied physics V 01 31, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1995
  • P. Würfel: Physics of Solar cells, Principles and new concepts, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2005
  • U. Rindelhardt: Photovoltaische Stromversorgung, Teubner-Reihe Umwelt, Stuttgart 2001
  • V. Quaschning: Regenerative Energiesysteme, Hanser, München, 2003
  • G. Schmitz: Regenerative Energien, Ringvorlesung TU Hamburg-Harburg 1994/95, Institut für Energietechnik



Course L0016: Radiation and Optic
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Volker Matthias
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Introduction: radiation source Sun, Astronomical Foundations, Fundamentals of radiation
  • Structure of the atmosphere
  • Properties and laws of radiation
    • Polarization
    • Radiation quantities 
    • Planck's radiation law
    • Wien's displacement law
    • Stefan-Boltzmann law
    • Kirchhoff's law
    • Brightness temperature
    • Absorption, reflection, transmission
  • Radiation balance, global radiation, energy balance
  • Atmospheric extinction
  • Mie and Rayleigh scattering
  • Radiative transfer
  • Optical effects in the atmosphere
  • Calculation of the sun and calculate radiation on inclined surfaces
Literature
  • Helmut Kraus: Die Atmosphäre der Erde
  • Hans Häckel: Meteorologie
  • Grant W. Petty: A First Course in Atmosheric Radiation
  • Martin Kaltschmitt, Wolfgang Streicher, Andreas Wiese: Renewable Energy
  • Alexander Löw, Volker Matthias: Skript Optik Strahlung Fernerkundung


Course L0017: Radiation and Optic
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Steffen Beringer
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content

Applications of stages of calculation within the radiation gauge.

Literature siehe Vorlesungsscript

Module M0513: System Aspects of Renewable Energies

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Fuel Cells, Batteries, and Gas Storage: New Materials for Energy Production and Storage (L0021) Lecture 2 2
Energy Trading (L0019) Lecture 1 1
Energy Trading (L0020) Recitation Section (small) 1 1
Deep Geothermal Energy (L0025) Lecture 2 2
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge none
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge Students are able to describe the processes in energy trading and the design of energy markets and can critically evaluate them in relation to current subject specific problems. Furthermore, they are able to explain the basics of thermodynamics of electrochemical energy conversion in fuel cells and can establish and explain the relationship to different types of fuel cells and their respective structure. Students can compare this technology with other energy storage options. In addition, students can give an overview of the procedure and the energetic involvement of deep geothermal energy.

Skills

Students can apply the learned knowledge of storage systems for excessive energy to explain for various energy systems different approaches to ensure a secure energy supply. In particular, they can plan and calculate domestic, commercial and industrial heating equipment using energy storage systems in an energy-efficient way and can assess them in relation to complex power systems. In this context, students can assess the potential and limits of geothermal power plants and explain their operating mode.

Furthermore, the students are able to explain the procedures and strategies for marketing of energy and apply it in the context of other modules on renewable energy projects. In this context they can unassistedly carry out analysis and evaluations of energie markets and energy trades. 

Personal Competence
Social Competence
Autonomy

Students can independently exploit sources , acquire the particular knowledge about the subject area and transform it to new questions.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 96, Study Time in Lecture 84
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 3 hours written exam
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Renewable Energy: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Process Engineering and Biotechnology: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Environmental Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Process Engineering : Elective Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Water: Elective Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Environment: Elective Compulsory
Course L0021: Fuel Cells, Batteries, and Gas Storage: New Materials for Energy Production and Storage
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Michael Fröba
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  1. Introduction to electrochemical energy conversion
  2. Function and structure of electrolyte
  3. Low-temperature fuel cell
    • Types
    • Thermodynamics of the PEM fuel cell
    • Cooling and humidification strategy
  4. High-temperature fuel cell
    • The MCFC
    • The SOFC
    • Integration Strategies and partial reforming
  5. Fuels
    • Supply of fuel
    • Reforming of natural gas and biogas
    • Reforming of liquid hydrocarbons
  6. Energetic Integration and control of fuel cell systems


Literature
  • Hamann, C.; Vielstich, W.: Elektrochemie 3. Aufl.; Weinheim: Wiley – VCH, 2003


Course L0019: Energy Trading
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Michael Sagorje, Jörg Seidel
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Basic concepts and tradable products in energy markets
  • Primary energy markets
  • Electricity Markets
  • European Emissions Trading Scheme
  • Influence of renewable energy
  • Real options
  • Risk management
Literature
Course L0020: Energy Trading
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Michael Sagorje, Jörg Seidel
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content See interlocking course
Literature See interlocking course
Course L0025: Deep Geothermal Energy
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Dr. Ben Norden
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  1. Introduction to the deep geothermal use
  2. Geological Basics I
  3. Geological Basics II
  4. Geology and thermal aspects
  5. Rock Physical Aspects
  6. Geochemical aspects
  7. Exploration of deep geothermal reservoirs
  8. Drilling technologies, piping and expansion
  9. Borehole Geophysics
  10. Underground system characterization and reservoir engineering
  11. Microbiology and Upper-day system components
  12. Adapted investment concepts, cost and environmental aspect
Literature
  • Dipippo, R.: Geothermal Power Plants: Principles, Applications, Case Studies and Environmental Impact. Butterworth Heinemann; 3rd revised edition. (29. Mai 2012)
  • www.geo-energy.org
  • Edenhofer et al. (eds): Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation; Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Kaltschmitt et al. (eds): Erneuerbare Energien: Systemtechnik, Wirtschaftlichkeit, Umweltaspekte. Springer, 5. Aufl. 2013.
  • Kaltschmitt et al. (eds): Energie aus Erdwärme. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag; Auflage: 1999 (3. September 2001)
  • Huenges, E. (ed.): Geothermal Energy Systems: Exploration, Development, and Utilization. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; Auflage: 1. Auflage (19. April 2010)


Module M1235: Electrical Power Systems I

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Electrical Power Systems I (L1670) Lecture 3 4
Electrical Power Systems I (L1671) Recitation Section (large) 2 2
Module Responsible Prof. Christian Becker
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

Students are able to give an overview of conventional and modern electric power systems.  They can explain in detail and critically evaluate technologies of electric power generation, transmission, storage, and distribution as well as integration of equipment into electric power systems.

Skills

With completion of this module the students are able to apply the acquired skills in applications of the design, integration, development of electric power systems and to assess the results.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

The students can participate in specialized and interdisciplinary discussions, advance ideas and represent their own work results in front of others.

Autonomy

Students can independently tap knowledge of the emphasis of the lectures. 

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 90 - 150 minutes
Assignment for the Following Curricula General Engineering Science (German program, 7 semester): Specialisation Electrical Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Electrical Engineering: Core qualification: Elective Compulsory
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Energy Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy Systems: Specialisation Energy Systems: Elective Compulsory
Energy Systems: Specialisation Energy Systems: Elective Compulsory
General Engineering Science (English program, 7 semester): Specialisation Electrical Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Computational Science and Engineering: Specialisation Engineering Sciences: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Course L1670: Electrical Power Systems I
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 3
CP 4
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 78, Study Time in Lecture 42
Lecturer Prof. Christian Becker
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • fundamentals and current development trends in electric power engineering 
  • tasks and history of electric power systems
  • symmetric three-phase systems
  • fundamentals and modelling of eletric power systems 
    • lines
    • transformers
    • synchronous machines
    • grid structures and substations 
  • fundamentals of energy conversion
    • electro-mechanical energy conversion
    • thermodynamics
    • power station technology
    • renewable energy conversion systems
  • on-board electrical power systems 
  • steady-state network calculation
    • network modelling
    • load flow calculation
    • (n-1)-criterion
  • symmetric failure calculations, short-circuit power
  • asymmetric failure calculation
    • symmetric components
    • calculation of asymmetric failures
  • control in networks and power stations
  • insulation coordination and protection
  • grid planning
  • power economy fundamentals
Literature

K. Heuck, K.-D. Dettmann, D. Schulz: "Elektrische Energieversorgung", Vieweg + Teubner, 9. Auflage, 2014

A. J. Schwab: "Elektroenergiesysteme", Springer, 3. Auflage, 2012

R. Flosdorff: "Elektrische Energieverteilung" Vieweg + Teubner, 9. Auflage, 2005

Course L1671: Electrical Power Systems I
Typ Recitation Section (large)
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Christian Becker
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • fundamentals and current development trends in electric power engineering 
  • tasks and history of electric power systems
  • symmetric three-phase systems
  • fundamentals and modelling of eletric power systems 
    • lines
    • transformers
    • synchronous machines
    • grid structures and substations 
  • fundamentals of energy conversion
    • electro-mechanical energy conversion
    • thermodynamics
    • power station technology
    • renewable energy conversion systems
  • on-board electrical power systems 
  • steady-state network calculation
    • network modelling
    • load flow calculation
    • (n-1)-criterion
  • symmetric failure calculations, short-circuit power
  • asymmetric failure calculation
    • symmetric components
    • calculation of asymmetric failures
  • control in networks and power stations
  • insulation coordination and protection
  • grid planning
  • power economy fundamentals
Literature

K. Heuck, K.-D. Dettmann, D. Schulz: "Elektrische Energieversorgung", Vieweg + Teubner, 9. Auflage, 2014

A. J. Schwab: "Elektroenergiesysteme", Springer, 3. Auflage, 2012

R. Flosdorff: "Elektrische Energieverteilung" Vieweg + Teubner, 9. Auflage, 2005

Module M0742: Thermal Engineering

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Thermal Engineering (L0023) Lecture 3 5
Thermal Engineering (L0024) Recitation Section (large) 1 1
Module Responsible Prof. Gerhard Schmitz
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge Technical Thermodynamics I, II, Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

Students know the different energy conversion stages and the difference between efficiency and annual efficiency. They have increased knowledge in heat and mass transfer, especially in regard to buildings and mobile applications. They are familiar with German energy saving code and other technical relevant rules. They know to differ different heating systems in the domestic and industrial area and how to control such heating systems. They are able to model a furnace and to calculate the transient temperatures in a furnace. They have the basic knowledge of emission formations in the flames of small burners  and how to conduct the flue gases into the atmosphere. They are able to model thermodynamic systems with object oriented languages.


Skills

Students are able to calculate the heating demand for different heating systems and to choose the suitable components. They are able to calculate a pipeline network and have the ability to perform simple planning tasks, regarding solar energy. They can write Modelica programs and can transfer research knowledge into practice. They are able to perform scientific work in the field of thermal engineering.


Personal Competence
Social Competence

The students are able to discuss in small groups and develop an approach.

Autonomy

Students are able to define independently tasks, to get new knowledge from existing knowledge as well as to find ways to use the knowledge in practice.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 124, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 60 min
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Energy Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy Systems: Specialisation Energy Systems: Compulsory
Energy Systems: Specialisation Marine Engineering: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Product Development, Materials and Production: Core qualification: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Core qualification: Compulsory
Theoretical Mechanical Engineering: Specialisation Energy Systems: Elective Compulsory
Theoretical Mechanical Engineering: Technical Complementary Course: Elective Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Course L0023: Thermal Engineering
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 3
CP 5
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 108, Study Time in Lecture 42
Lecturer Prof. Gerhard Schmitz
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content

1. Introduction

2. Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering 2.1 Heat Conduction 2.2 Convection 2.3 Radiation 2.4 Heat transition 2.5 Combustion parameters 2.6 Electrical heating 2.7 Water vapor transport

3. Heating Systems 3.1 Warm water heating systems 3.2 Warm water supply 3.3 piping calculation 3.4 boilers, heat pumps, solar collectors 3.5 Air heating systems 3.6 radiative heating systems

4. Thermal traetment systems 4.1 Industrial furnaces 4.2 Melting furnaces 4.3 Drying plants 4.4 Emission control 4.5 Chimney calculation 4.6 Energy measuring

5. Laws and standards 5.1 Buildings 5.2 Industrial plants

Literature
  • Schmitz, G.: Klimaanlagen, Skript zur Vorlesung
  • VDI Wärmeatlas, 11. Auflage, Springer Verlag, Düsseldorf 2013
  • Herwig, H.; Moschallski, A.: Wärmeübertragung, Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009
  • Recknagel, H.;  Sprenger, E.; Schrammek, E.-R.: Taschenbuch für Heizung- und Klimatechnik 2013/2014, 76. Auflage, Deutscher Industrieverlag, 2013
Course L0024: Thermal Engineering
Typ Recitation Section (large)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Prof. Gerhard Schmitz
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content See interlocking course
Literature See interlocking course

Specialization Bio energies

In the specialization "Bioenergy" advanced knowledge for the energetic utilisation of biomass is provided. This implicates, inter alia, the processing and use of wood as an energy resource, but also an understanding about procedures and concepts which enable energy recovery from waste.

Module M0516: Renewable Energies in Supply Systems

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Electricity Generation from Renewable Sources of Energy (L0046) Seminar 2 2
Heat Provision from Renewable Sources of Energy (L0045) Seminar 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge none
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students can describe current issue and problems in the field of renewable energies. Furthermore, they can explain aspects in relation to the provision of heat or electricity through different renewable technologies, and explain and assess them in a technical, economical and environmental way.


Skills

Students are able to solve scientific problems in the context of heat and electricity supply using renewable energy systems by:    

  • using module-comprehensive knowledge for different applications,
  • evaluating alternative input parameter regarding the solution of the task in the case of incomplete information (technical, economical and ecological parameter),
  • a systematic documentation of the work results in form of a written version, the presentation itself and the defense of contents.
Personal Competence
Social Competence

 Students can

  • respectfully work together as a team with around 2-3 members,
  • participate in subject-specific and interdisciplinary discussions in the area of dimensioning and analysis of potentials of heat and electricty supply using renewable energie, and can develop cooperated solutions,
  • defend their own work results in front of fellow students and
  •  assess the performance of fellow students in comparison to their own performance. Furthermore, they can accept professional constructive criticism.
Autonomy

Students can independently tap knowledge regarding to the given task. They are capable, in consultation with supervisors, to assess their learning level and define further steps on this basis. Furthermore, they can define targets for new application-or research-oriented duties in accordance with the potential social, economic and cultural impact.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 94, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 5
Examination Written elaboration
Examination duration and scale
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation General Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Compulsory
Course L0046: Electricity Generation from Renewable Sources of Energy
Typ Seminar
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE/EN
Cycle WiSe
Content
  •  Preliminary discussion with the seminar rules
  • Distribution of the topics related to the subject of the seminar to individual students / groups of students (depending on the number of participating students)
  • Delivery of a five-page summary of the seminar topic and distribution to the participants by the student / group of students
  • Presentation of the processed topic (30 min) with PPT presentation and subsequent discussion (20 minutes)
  • Attendance is mandatory for all seminars

Literature
  • Eigenständiges Literaturstudium in der Bibliothek und aus anderen Quellen.


Course L0045: Heat Provision from Renewable Sources of Energy
Typ Seminar
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE/EN
Cycle SoSe
Content
  •  Preliminary discussion with the seminar rules
  • Distribution of the topics related to the subject of the seminar to individual students / groups of students (depending on the number of participating students)
  • Delivery of a five-page summary of the seminar topic and distribution to the participants by the student / group of students
  • Presentation of the processed topic (30 min) with PPT presentation and subsequent discussion (20 minutes)
  • Attendance is mandatory for all seminars
Literature

Eigenständiges Literaturstudium in der Bibliothek und aus anderen Quellen.

Module M0520: Wood Provision and Processing

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Biorefineries - Concepts and Plants (L0055) Lecture 2 2
Forest Production (L0053) Lecture 2 2
Mechanical Technology of Wood (L0054) Lecture 2 2
Module Responsible Prof. Kerstin Kuchta
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge none
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

Students can describe and explain wood technologies and bio refinery concepts in the light of political demand and economical challenges, characteristics and system boundaries of bio refineries. 


Skills

Students are able to apply scientific and interdisciplinary methods for the evaluation of bio refinery concepts, such as balancing or feasibility. Students can evaluate alternatives under economic and ecologic aspects and in comparison with fossil refineries even with incomplete information.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

Students can participate in subject-specific and interdisciplinary discussions.

Autonomy

Students can gain knowledge of the subject area from given sources and transform it to new questions. Furthermore, they can define targets for new application or research-oriented duties in for wood technologies and bio refinery concepts accordance with the potential social, economic and cultural impact.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 96, Study Time in Lecture 84
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 1,5 hours written exam
Assignment for the Following Curricula Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Course L0055: Biorefineries - Concepts and Plants
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Kerstin Kuchta
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  1. Biorefinery in the light of political demand and economical challenges
  2. Characteristics of bio refineries
  3. System boundaries of biorefineries
  4. comparison of biorefineries and biomass utilization
  5. State-of-the-art of biorefinery concepts
  6. Evaluation of biorefinery concepts as a substitute for petrolhemical resources and processes 
  7. Perspectives and requirement for further development
Literature
Course L0053: Forest Production
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Michael Köhl
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content

Students will have in-depth knowledge about the development and deployment of renewable raw material wood, in the context of sustainable forest production - differentiated in a global and regional context. They can assess problems and areas of conflicts that exist with regard to the different interests and requirements for forest management and can solve them regional specific taking into account economic, ecological and social aspects. They also know the basics of harvesting and logistics so that they can build a bridge to the timber market doctrine.

Literature Script der Vorlesung
Course L0054: Mechanical Technology of Wood
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Jörg B. Ressel
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content

The participants will get to know the main production processes of the mechanical wood industry and can weigh their pros and cons against each other (effectiveness, uses of the raw material, ways of manufacturing products, including investment and production costs). This knowledge should enable the participants to exercise subsequent activities in the field of production, cost accounting, purchase, sale and marketing of products.


Lecture Topics:

- Wood drying
- Steaming and boiling of wood
- Treatment of wood with plastics
- Manufacturing techniques for timber
- Manufacture of sliced ​​and peeled veneers
- Plywood manufacturing
- Chipboard manufacturing and finishing
- The production of fibreboards
- Processing of timber into components
- Method processes in furniture manufacturing

Literature Vorlesungsscript

Module M0518: Waste and Energy

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Waste Recycling Technologies (L0047) Lecture 2 2
Waste Recycling Technologies (L0048) Recitation Section (small) 1 2
Waste to Energy (L0049) Problem-based Learning 2 2
Module Responsible Prof. Kerstin Kuchta
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge Basics of process engineering
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

Students are able to describe and explain in detail techniques, processes and concepts for treatment and energy recovery from wastes.



Skills

The students are able to select suitable processes for the treatment and energy recovery of wastes. They can evaluate the efforts and costs for processes and select economically feasible treatment Concepts. Students are able to evaluate alternatives even with incomplete information. Students are able to prepare systematic documentation of work results in form of reports, presentations and are able to defend their findings in a group.


Personal Competence
Social Competence

Students can participate in subject-specific and interdisciplinary discussions, develop cooperated solutions and defend their own work results in front of others and promote the scientific development of collegues. Furthermore, they can give and accept professional constructive criticism.


Autonomy

Students can independently tap knowledge of the subject area and transform it to new questions. They are capable, in consultation with supervisors, to assess their learning level and define further steps on this basis. Furthermore, they can define targets for new application-or research-oriented duties in accordance with the potential social, economic and cultural impact.


Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Project
Examination duration and scale PowerPoint presentation (10-15 minutes)
Assignment for the Following Curricula Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Waste and Energy: Elective Compulsory
Joint European Master in Environmental Studies - Cities and Sustainability: Core qualification: Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Course L0047: Waste Recycling Technologies
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Kerstin Kuchta
Language EN
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Fundamentals on primary and secondary production of  raw materials (steel, aluminum, phosphorous, copper, precious metals, rare metals)
  • Use and demand of metals and minerals in industry and society
  • collection systems and concepts
  • quota and efficiency
  • Advanced sorting technologies
  • mechanical pretreatment
  • advanced treatment
  • Chemical analysis of Critical Materials in post-consumer products
  • Analytical tools in Resource Management (Material Flow Analysis, Recycling Performance Indicators, Criticality Assessment, statistical analysis of uncertainties)
Literature
Course L0048: Waste Recycling Technologies
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 46, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Prof. Kerstin Kuchta
Language EN
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Fundamentals on primary and secondary production of  raw materials (steel, aluminum, phosphorous, copper, precious metals, rare metals)
  • Use and demand of metals and minerals in industry and society
  • collection systems and concepts
  • quota and efficiency
  • Advanced sorting technologies
  • mechanical pretreatment
  • advanced treatment
  • Chemical analysis of Critical Materials in post-consumer products
  • Analytical tools in Resource Management (Material Flow Analysis, Recycling Performance Indicators, Criticality Assessment, statistical analysis of uncertainties)
Literature
Course L0049: Waste to Energy
Typ Problem-based Learning
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Rüdiger Siechau
Language EN
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Project-based lecture
  • Introduction into the " Waste to Energy " consisting of:
    • Thermal Process ( incinerator , RDF combustion )
    • Biological processes ( Wet-/Dryfermentation )
    • technology , energy , emissions, approval , etc.
  • Group work
    • design of systems/plants for energy recovery from waste
    • The following points are to be processed :
      • Input: waste ( fraction collection and transportation, current quantity , material flows , possible amount of development )
      • Plant (design, process diagram , technology, energy production )
      • Output ( energy quantity / type , by-products )
      • Costs and revenues
      • Climate and resource protection ( CO2 balance , substitution of primary raw materials / fossil fuels )
      • Location and approval (infrastructure , expiration authorization procedure)
      • Focus at the whole concept ( advantages, disadvantages , risks and opportunities , discussion )
  • Grading: No Exam , but presentation of the results of the working group



Literature

Literatur:

Einführung in die Abfallwirtschaft; Martin Kranert, Klaus Cord-Landwehr (Hrsg.); Vieweg + Teubner Verlag; 2010

Powerpoint-Folien in Stud IP



Literature:
Introduction to Waste Management; Kranert Martin , Klaus Cord - Landwehr (Ed. ), Vieweg + Teubner Verlag , 2010


PowerPoint slides in Stud IP



Module M0522: Biofuels and their Use I

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Biofuels Process Technology (L0061) Lecture 1 1
Biofuels Process Technology (L0062) Recitation Section (small) 1 1
Internal Combustion Engines I (L0059) Lecture 2 2
Internal Combustion Engines I (L0639) Recitation Section (large) 1 2
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge
  • Basics of engines and machinery
  • Engineering Thermodynamics I & II
  • Mechanics I & II
  • Fundamentals of Process Engineering


Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

Students can give an overview of the history and fields of internal combustion engines, as well as to modern simulation technology for the systematic design of an engine. They may also describe the forces and moments in the engine. Furthermore, they can explain in detail and evaluate the possibilities of biofuel production and use.

Skills

With completion of this module students are able to apply the acquired theoretical substance of combustion technology and biofuel process technology on today's biofuel development and to assess potential and limitsof the technologies. Furthermore, students can independently find solutions for the calculation and analysis of biofuels.


Personal Competence
Social Competence


Autonomy

Students can independently exploit sources with the focus on the emphasis of the lectures and can acquire the particular knowledge about the subject area.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 2,5 Stunden
Assignment for the Following Curricula Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Course L0061: Biofuels Process Technology
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Oliver Lüdtke
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • General introduction
  • What are biofuels?
  • Markets & trends 
  • Legal framework
  • Greenhouse gas savings 
  • Generations of biofuels 
    • first-generation bioethanol 
      • raw materials
      • fermentation distillation 
    • biobutanol / ETBE
    • second-generation bioethanol 
      • bioethanol from straw
    • first-generation biodiesel 
      • raw materials 
      • Production Process
      • Biodiesel & Natural Resources
    • HVO / HEFA 
    • second-generation biodiesel
      • Biodiesel from Algae
  • Biogas as fuel
    • the first biogas generation 
      • raw materials 
      • fermentation 
      • purification to biomethane 
    • Biogas second generation and gasification processes
  • Methanol / DME from wood and Tall oil ©

Literature
  • Skriptum zur Vorlesung
  • Drapcho, Nhuan, Walker; Biofuels Engineering Process Technology
  • Harwardt; Systematic design of separations for processing of biorenewables
  • Kaltschmitt; Hartmann; Energie aus Biomasse: Grundlagen, Techniken und Verfahren
  • Mousdale; Biofuels - Biotechnology, Chemistry and Sustainable Development
  • VDI Wärmeatlas


Course L0062: Biofuels Process Technology
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Oliver Lüdtke
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Life Cycle Assessment
    • Good example for the evaluation of CO2 savings potential by alternative fuels - Choice of system boundaries and databases
  • Bioethanol production
    • Application task in the basics of thermal separation processes (rectification, extraction) will be discussed. The focus is on a column design, including heat demand, number of stages, reflux ratio ...
  • Biodiesel production
    • Procedural options for solid / liquid separation, including basic equations for estimating power, energy demand, selectivity and throughput
  • Biomethane production
    • Chemical reactions that are relevant in the production of biofuels, including equilibria, activation energies, shift reactions


Literature

Skriptum zur Vorlesung

Course L0059: Internal Combustion Engines I
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Wolfgang Thiemann
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • The beginnings of engine development
  • Design of of motors
  • Real process calculation
  • Charging methods
  • Kinematics of the crank mechanism
  • Forces in the engine
Literature
  • Vorlesungsskript
  • Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungsweg
  • Literaturliste


Course L0639: Internal Combustion Engines I
Typ Recitation Section (large)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 46, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Prof. Wolfgang Thiemann
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content

Calculation of tasks to:

  • Design of of motors
  • Real process calculation
  • Charging methods
  • Kinematics of the crank mechanism
  • Forces in the engine
Literature

Vorlesungsskript

Module M0555: Dimensioning and Assessment of Renewable Energy Systems

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
CAPE in Energy Engineering (L0022) Projection Course 2 2
Environmental Technology and Energy Economics (L0137) Problem-based Learning 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge none
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students can describe current issue and problems in the field of renewable energies. Furthermore, they can describe the basics of the general procedure for the processing of modeling tasks, especially with ASPEN PLUS ® and ASPEN CUSTOM MODELER ®.


Skills

Students are able to simulate and solve scientific task in the context of renewable energy technologies by:    

  • development of modul-comprehensive approaches for the dimensioning, design and evaluation of (renewable) energy systems,
  • evaluating alternatives input parameter to solve the particular task even with incomplete information,
  • a systematic documentation of the work results in form of a written version, the presentation itself and the defense of contents.

They can use the ASPEN PLUS ® and ASPEN CUSTOM MODELER ® for modeling energy systems and to evaluate the simulation solutions.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

 Students can

  • work together as a team with around 2-3 participants,
  • participate in subject-specific and interdisciplinary discussions to design and evaluate (renewable) energy systems and to develop cooperated solutions,
  •  can accept professional constructive criticism.

Autonomy

Students can independently tap knowledge of the particular task. They are capable, in consultation with supervisors, to assess their learning level and define further steps on this basis. 

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 94, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 5
Examination Written elaboration
Examination duration and scale
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Compulsory
Course L0022: CAPE in Energy Engineering
Typ Projection Course
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • CAPE = Computer-Aided-Project-Engineering

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY    
    • Classes of simulation programs
    • Sequential modular approach
    • Equation-oriented approach
    • Simultaneous modular approach
    • General procedure for the processing of modeling tasks
    • Special procedure for solving models with repatriations
  • COMPUTER EXERCISES renewable energy projects WITH ASPEN PLUS ® AND ASPEN CUSTOM MODELER ®    
    • Scope, potential and limitations of Aspen Plus ® and Aspen Custom Modeler ®
    • Use of integrated databases for material data
    • Methods for estimating non-existent physical property data
    • Use of model libraries and Process Synthesis
    • Application of design specifications and sensitivity analyzes
    • Solving optimization problems
Literature
  • Aspen Plus® - Aspen Plus User Guide
  • William L. Luyben; Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation; ISBN-10: 0-471-77888-5
Course L0137: Environmental Technology and Energy Economics
Typ Problem-based Learning
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE/EN
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Preliminary discussion with the rules of the lecture
  • Issue of topics from the field of renewable energy technology in the form of a tender of engineering services to a group of students (depending on the number of participating students)
  • "Procurement" deal with aspects of the design, costing and environmental, economic and technical evaluation of various energy generation concepts (eg onshore wind power generation, commercial-scale photovoltaic power generation, biogas production, geothermal power and heat generation) under very special circumstances
  • Submission of a written solution of the task and distribution to the participants by the student / group of students
  • Presentation of the edited theme (20 min) with PPT presentation and subsequent discussion (20 minutes)
  • Attendance is mandatory for all seminars

Literature

Eigenständiges Literaturstudium in der Bibliothek und aus anderen Quellen.

Module M0749: Waste Treatment and Solid Matter Process Technology

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Solid Matter Process Technology for Biomass (L0052) Lecture 2 2
Thermal Waste Treatment (L0320) Lecture 2 2
Thermal Waste Treatment (L1177) Recitation Section (large) 1 2
Module Responsible Prof. Kerstin Kuchta
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Basics of

  • thermo dynamics
  • fluid dynamics
  • chemistry
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students can describe current issue and problems in the field of thermal waste treatment and particle process engineering. 

The industrial application of unit operations as part of process engineering is explained by actual examples of waste incineration technologies and solid biomass processes. Compostion, particle sizes, transportation and dosing, drying and agglomeration of renewable resources and wastes are described as important unit operations when producing solid fuels and bioethanol, producing and refining edible oils, electricity , heat and mineral recyclables.

Skills

The students are able to select suitable processes for the treatment of wastes or raw material with respect to their characteristics and the process aims. They can evaluate the efforts and costs for processes and select economically feasible treatment concepts.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

Students can

  • respectfully work together as a team and discuss technical tasks
  • participate in subject-specific and interdisciplinary discussions,
  • develop cooperated solutions 
  •  promote the scientific development and accept professional constructive criticism.
Autonomy

Students can independently tap knowledge of the subject area and transform it to new questions. They are capable, in consultation with supervisors, to assess their learning level and define further steps on this basis. Furthermore, they can define targets for new application-or research-oriented duties in accordance with the potential social, economic and cultural impact.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 120 min
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Process Engineering and Biotechnology: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Chemical Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Process Engineering : Elective Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Environment: Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Cities: Elective Compulsory
Course L0052: Solid Matter Process Technology for Biomass
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Werner Sitzmann
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content The industrial application of unit operations as part of process engineering is explained by actual examples of solid biomass processes. Size reduction, transportation and dosing, drying and agglomeration of renewable resources are described as important unit operations when producing solid fuels and bioethanol, producing and refining edible oils, when making Btl - and WPC - products. Aspects of explosion protection and plant design complete the lecture.
Literature

Kaltschmitt M., Hartmann H. (Hrsg.): Energie aus Bioamsse, Springer Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-540-64853-4

Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz, Schriftenreihe Nachwachsende Rohstoffe,

Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. www.nachwachsende-rohstoffe.de

Bockisch M.: Nahrungsfette und -öle, Ulmer Verlag, 1993, ISBN 380000158175


Course L0320: Thermal Waste Treatment
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Kerstin Kuchta, Dr. Joachim Gerth, Dr. Ernst-Ulrich Hartge
Language EN
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Introduction, actual state-of-the-art of waste incineration, aims. legal background, reaction principals
  • basics of incineration processes: waste composition, calorific value, calculation of air demand and flue gas composition 
  • Incineration techniques: grate firing, ash transfer, boiler
  • Flue gas cleaning: Volume, composition, legal frame work and emission limits, dry treatment, scrubber, de-nox techniques, dioxin elimination, Mercury elimination
  • Ash treatment: Mass, quality, treatment concepts, recycling, disposal
Literature

Thomé-Kozmiensky, K. J. (Hrsg.): Thermische Abfallbehandlung Bande 1-7. EF-Verlag für Energie- und Umwelttechnik, Berlin, 196 - 2013.

Course L1177: Thermal Waste Treatment
Typ Recitation Section (large)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 46, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Ernst-Ulrich Hartge, Dr. Joachim Gerth
Language EN
Cycle SoSe
Content See interlocking course
Literature See interlocking course

Module M0521: Materials for Energy Conversion Plants

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Building Materials, Damages and Repair (L0056) Lecture 3 3
Design with Polymers and Composites (L0057) Lecture 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Frank Schmidt-Döhl
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Basic knowledge about material science

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students are able to select materials for structures made of polymers and composites. They are able to describe the fundamentals of laminate theory and the failure of these materials. The students are able to show the characteristics of mineral building materials, their components and function, manufacture, properties and fields of application. They are able to show different steels for the construction of buildings and their fields of application.

Skills

The students are able to design and to dimension simple structures with polymers and composites. They are able to calculate mixtures of concrete and mortar. The students are able to recognize damages, to assess possible causes, to use the fundamentals of construction preservation and to select repair and strengthening measures.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

Students acquire the ability to evaluate facts within groups and to discuss technical correlations in an appropriate form.

Autonomy
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 2 stündige Klausur
Assignment for the Following Curricula Energy Systems: Core qualification: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Elective Compulsory
Course L0056: Building Materials, Damages and Repair
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 3
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 48, Study Time in Lecture 42
Course work none
Lecturer Prof. Frank Schmidt-Döhl
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content Mineral binders and building materials, concrete, steel in civil engineering, other building materials for energy conversion plants, metal and concrete corrosion, maintenance and repair
Literature

Taylor, H.F.W.: Cement Chemistry

Springenschmid, R.: Betontechnologie für die Praxis

Blaich, J.: Bauschäden, Analyse und Vermeidung

BetonMarketing Deutschland (Hrsg.): Stahlbetonoberflächen - schützen, erhalten, instandsetzen

Course L0057: Design with Polymers and Composites
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Bodo Fiedler
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content Designing with Polymers: Materials Selection; Structural Design; Dimensioning
Designing with Composites: Laminate Theory; Failure Criteria; Design of Pipes and Shafts; Sandwich Structures; Notches; Joining Techniques; Compression Loading; Examples
Literature

Konstruieren mit Kunststoffen, Gunter Erhard , Hanser Verlag


Module M0900: Examples in Solid Process Engineering

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Fluidization Technology (L0431) Lecture 2 2
Practical Course Fluidization Technology (L1369) Laboratory Course 1 1
Technical Applications of Particle Technology (L0955) Lecture 2 2
Exercises in Fluidization Technology (L1372) Recitation Section (small) 1 1
Module Responsible Prof. Stefan Heinrich
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge Knowledge from the module particle technology
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge After completion of the module the students will be able to describe based on examples the assembly of solids engineering processes consisting of multiple apparatuses and subprocesses. They are able to describe the coaction and interrelation of subprocesses.
Skills Students are able to analyze tasks in the field of solids process engineering and to combine suitable subprocesses in a process chain.
Personal Competence
Social Competence Students are able to discuss technical problems in a scientific manner.
Autonomy
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 96, Study Time in Lecture 84
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 120 minutes
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Chemical Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Course L0431: Fluidization Technology
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Stefan Heinrich
Language EN
Cycle WiSe
Content

Introduction: definition, fluidization regimes, comparison with other types of gas/solids reactors
Typical fluidized bed applications
Fluidmechanical principle
Local fluid mechanics of gas/solid fluidization
Fast fluidization (circulating fluidized bed)
Entrainment
Solids mixing in fluidized beds
Application of fluidized beds to granulation and drying processes


Literature

Kunii, D.; Levenspiel, O.: Fluidization Engineering. Butterworth Heinemann, Boston, 1991.


Course L1369: Practical Course Fluidization Technology
Typ Laboratory Course
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Prof. Stefan Heinrich
Language EN
Cycle WiSe
Content

Experiments:

  • Determination of the minimum fluidization velocity
  • heat transfer
  • granulation
  • drying


Literature

Kunii, D.; Levenspiel, O.: Fluidization Engineering. Butterworth Heinemann, Boston, 1991.


Course L0955: Technical Applications of Particle Technology
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Werner Sitzmann
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content Unit operations like mixing, separation, agglomeration and size reduction are discussed concerning their technical applicability from the perspective of the practician. Machines and apparatuses are presented, their designs and modes of action are explained and their application in production processes for chemicals, food and feed and in recycling processes are illustrated.
Literature Stieß M: Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik I und II, Springer - Verlag, 1997
Course L1372: Exercises in Fluidization Technology
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Prof. Stefan Heinrich
Language EN
Cycle WiSe
Content

Exercises and calculation examples for the lecture Fluidization Technology


Literature

Kunii, D.; Levenspiel, O.: Fluidization Engineering. Butterworth Heinemann, Boston, 1991.


Module M0902: Wastewater Treatment and Air Pollution Abatement

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Biological Wastewater Treatment (L0517) Lecture 2 3
Air Pollution Abatement (L0203) Lecture 2 3
Module Responsible Dr. Ernst-Ulrich Hartge
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Basic knowledge of biology and chemistry

basic knowledge of solids process engineering and separation technology


Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

After successful completion of the module students are able to

  • name and explain  biological processes for waste water treatment,
  • characterize waste water and sewage sludge
  • discuss legal regulations in the area of emissions and air quality
  • classify off gas tretament processes and to define their area of application
Skills

Students are able to

  • choose and design processs steps for the biological waste water treatment
  • combine processes for cleaning of off-gases depending on the pollutants contained in the gases
Personal Competence
Social Competence
Autonomy
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 124, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 90 min
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation General Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Waste and Energy: Elective Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Energy and Environmental Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Joint European Master in Environmental Studies - Cities and Sustainability: Specialisation Water: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Environmental Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Process Engineering: Specialisation Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Water: Elective Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Environment: Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Specialisation Cities: Compulsory
Course L0517: Biological Wastewater Treatment
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Course work No compulsory course work.
Lecturer Dr. Joachim Behrendt
Language DE/EN
Cycle WiSe
Content

Charaterisation of Wastewater
Metobolism of Microorganisms
Kinetic of mirobiotic processes
Calculation of bioreactor for wastewater treatment
Concepts of Wastewater treatment
Design of WWTP
Excursion to a WWTP
Biofilms
Biofim Reactors
Anaerobic Wastewater and sldge treatment
resources oriented sanitation technology
Future challenges of wastewater treatment

Literature

Gujer, Willi
Siedlungswasserwirtschaft : mit 84 Tabellen
ISBN: 3540343296 (Gb.) URL: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/516261924.pdf URL: http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2842122&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
Berlin [u.a.] : Springer, 2007
TUB_HH_Katalog
Henze, Mogens
Wastewater treatment : biological and chemical processes
ISBN: 3540422285 (Pp.)
Berlin [u.a.] : Springer, 2002
TUB_HH_Katalog
Imhoff, Karl (Imhoff, Klaus R.;)
Taschenbuch der Stadtentwässerung : mit 10 Tafeln
ISBN: 3486263331 ((Gb.))
München [u.a.] : Oldenbourg, 1999
TUB_HH_Katalog
Lange, Jörg (Otterpohl, Ralf; Steger-Hartmann, Thomas;)
Abwasser : Handbuch zu einer zukunftsfähigen Wasserwirtschaft
ISBN: 3980350215 (kart.) URL: http://www.gbv.de/du/services/agi/52567E5D44DA0809C12570220050BF25/000000700334
Donaueschingen-Pfohren : Mall-Beton-Verl., 2000
TUB_HH_Katalog
Mudrack, Klaus (Kunst, Sabine;)
Biologie der Abwasserreinigung : 18 Tabellen
ISBN: 382741427X URL: http://www.gbv.de/du/services/agi/94B581161B6EC747C1256E3F005A8143/420000114903
Heidelberg [u.a.] : Spektrum, Akad. Verl., 2003
TUB_HH_Katalog
Tchobanoglous, George (Metcalf & Eddy, Inc., ;)
Wastewater engineering : treatment and reuse
ISBN: 0070418780 (alk. paper) ISBN: 0071122508 (ISE (*pbk))
Boston [u.a.] : McGraw-Hill, 2003
TUB_HH_Katalog
Henze, Mogens
Activated sludge models ASM1, ASM2, ASM2d and ASM3
ISBN: 1900222248
London : IWA Publ., 2002
TUB_HH_Katalog
Kunz, Peter
Umwelt-Bioverfahrenstechnik
Vieweg, 1992
Bauhaus-Universität., Arbeitsgruppe Weiterbildendes Studium Wasser und Umwelt (Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall, ;)
Abwasserbehandlung : Gewässerbelastung, Bemessungsgrundlagen, Mechanische Verfahren, Biologische Verfahren, Reststoffe aus der Abwasserbehandlung, Kleinkläranlagen
ISBN: 3860682725 URL: http://www.gbv.de/dms/weimar/toc/513989765_toc.pdf URL: http://www.gbv.de/dms/weimar/abs/513989765_abs.pdf
Weimar : Universitätsverl, 2006
TUB_HH_Katalog
Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall
DWA-Regelwerk
Hennef : DWA, 2004
TUB_HH_Katalog
Wiesmann, Udo (Choi, In Su; Dombrowski, Eva-Maria;)
Fundamentals of biological wastewater treatment
ISBN: 3527312196 (Gb.) URL: http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2774611&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
Weinheim : WILEY-VCH, 2007
TUB_HH_Katalog

Course L0203: Air Pollution Abatement
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Dr. Ernst-Ulrich Hartge
Language EN
Cycle WiSe
Content

In the lecture methods for the reduction of emissions from industrial plants are treated. At the beginning a short survey of the different forms of air pollutants is given. In the second part physical principals for the removal of particulate and gaseous pollutants form flue gases are treated. Industrial applications of these principles are demonstrated with examples showing the removal of specific compounds, e.g. sulfur or mercury from flue gases of incinerators.

Literature

Handbook of air pollution prevention and control, Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002
Atmospheric pollution : history, science, and regulation, Mark Zachary Jacobson. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002
Air pollution control technology handbook, Karl B. Schnelle. - Boca Raton [u.a.] : CRC Press, c 2002
Air pollution, Jeremy Colls. - 2. ed. - London [u.a.] : Spon, 2002

Specialization Wind energy

Within the specialization "Wind Energy" advanced knowledge for the utilization of wind energy in the offshore as well as in the onshore sector is provided. In particular, maritime and logistical constraints during the installation and use of offshore wind farms are discussed. In this context, the management of risks which may occur during construction and operation of such large energy projects are explained.

In addition, in a separate module, the material-specific basis for the composition of components of wind turbines is provided.

Module M0516: Renewable Energies in Supply Systems

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Electricity Generation from Renewable Sources of Energy (L0046) Seminar 2 2
Heat Provision from Renewable Sources of Energy (L0045) Seminar 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge none
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students can describe current issue and problems in the field of renewable energies. Furthermore, they can explain aspects in relation to the provision of heat or electricity through different renewable technologies, and explain and assess them in a technical, economical and environmental way.


Skills

Students are able to solve scientific problems in the context of heat and electricity supply using renewable energy systems by:    

  • using module-comprehensive knowledge for different applications,
  • evaluating alternative input parameter regarding the solution of the task in the case of incomplete information (technical, economical and ecological parameter),
  • a systematic documentation of the work results in form of a written version, the presentation itself and the defense of contents.
Personal Competence
Social Competence

 Students can

  • respectfully work together as a team with around 2-3 members,
  • participate in subject-specific and interdisciplinary discussions in the area of dimensioning and analysis of potentials of heat and electricty supply using renewable energie, and can develop cooperated solutions,
  • defend their own work results in front of fellow students and
  •  assess the performance of fellow students in comparison to their own performance. Furthermore, they can accept professional constructive criticism.
Autonomy

Students can independently tap knowledge regarding to the given task. They are capable, in consultation with supervisors, to assess their learning level and define further steps on this basis. Furthermore, they can define targets for new application-or research-oriented duties in accordance with the potential social, economic and cultural impact.

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 94, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 5
Examination Written elaboration
Examination duration and scale
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation General Process Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Compulsory
Course L0046: Electricity Generation from Renewable Sources of Energy
Typ Seminar
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE/EN
Cycle WiSe
Content
  •  Preliminary discussion with the seminar rules
  • Distribution of the topics related to the subject of the seminar to individual students / groups of students (depending on the number of participating students)
  • Delivery of a five-page summary of the seminar topic and distribution to the participants by the student / group of students
  • Presentation of the processed topic (30 min) with PPT presentation and subsequent discussion (20 minutes)
  • Attendance is mandatory for all seminars

Literature
  • Eigenständiges Literaturstudium in der Bibliothek und aus anderen Quellen.


Course L0045: Heat Provision from Renewable Sources of Energy
Typ Seminar
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE/EN
Cycle SoSe
Content
  •  Preliminary discussion with the seminar rules
  • Distribution of the topics related to the subject of the seminar to individual students / groups of students (depending on the number of participating students)
  • Delivery of a five-page summary of the seminar topic and distribution to the participants by the student / group of students
  • Presentation of the processed topic (30 min) with PPT presentation and subsequent discussion (20 minutes)
  • Attendance is mandatory for all seminars
Literature

Eigenständiges Literaturstudium in der Bibliothek und aus anderen Quellen.

Module M0528: Maritime Technology and Offshore Wind Parks

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Introduction to Maritime Technology (L0070) Lecture 2 2
Introduction to Maritime Technology (L1614) Recitation Section (small) 1 1
Offshore Wind Parks (L0072) Lecture 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud
Admission Requirements
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Qualified Bachelor of a natural or engineering science; Solid knowledge and competences in mathematics, mechanics, fluid dynamics.


Basic knowledge of ocean engineering topics (e.g. from an introductory class like 'Introduction to Maritime Technology')

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

After successful completion of this class, students should have an overview about phenomena and methods in ocean engineering and the ability to apply and extend the methods presented. In detail, the students should be able to

  • describe the different aspects and topics in Maritime Technology,
  • apply existing methods to problems in Maritime Technology,
  • discuss limitations in present day approaches and perspectives in the future.


Based on research topics of present relevance the participants are to be prepared for independent research work in the field. For that purpose specific research problems of workable scope will be addressed in the class. 

After successful completion of this module, students should be able to

  • Show present research questions in the field
  • Explain the present state of the art for the topics considered
  • Apply given methodology to approach given problems
  • Evaluate the limits of the present methods
  • Identify possibilities to extend present methods
  • Evaluate the feasibility of further developments
Skills
Personal Competence
Social Competence
Autonomy
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 180 min
Assignment for the Following Curricula Energy Systems: Specialisation Marine Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Elective Compulsory
Course L0070: Introduction to Maritime Technology
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Dr. Sven Hoog
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content

1. Introduction

  • Ocean Engineering and Marine Research
  • The potentials of the seas
  • Industries and occupational structures

2. Coastal and offshore Environmental Conditions

  • Physical and chemical properties of sea water and sea ice
  • Flows, waves, wind, ice
  • Biosphere

3. Response behavior of Technical Structures

4. Maritime Systems and Technologies

  • General Design and Installation of Offshore-Structures
  • Geophysical and Geotechnical Aspects
  • Fixed and Floating Platforms
  • Mooring Systems, Risers, Pipelines
  • Energy conversion: Wind, Waves, Tides
Literature
  • Chakrabarti, S., Handbook of Offshore Engineering, vol. I/II, Elsevier 2005.
  • Gerwick, B.C., Construction of Marine and Offshore Structures, CRC-Press 1999.
  • Wagner, P., Meerestechnik, Ernst&Sohn 1990.
  • Clauss, G., Meerestechnische Konstruktionen, Springer 1988.
  • Knauss, J.A., Introduction to Physical Oceanography, Waveland 2005.
  • Wright, J. et al., Waves, Tides and Shallow-Water Processes, Butterworth 2006.
  • Faltinsen, O.M., Sea Loads on Ships and Offshore Structures, Cambridge 1999.
Course L1614: Introduction to Maritime Technology
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Dr. Sven Hoog
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content See interlocking course
Literature See interlocking course
Course L0072: Offshore Wind Parks
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Dr. Alexander Mitzlaff
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Nonlinear Waves: Stability, pattern formation, solitary states 
  • Bottom Boundary layers: wave boundary layers, scour, stability of marine slopes
  • Ice-structure interaction
  • Wave and tidal current energy conversion


Literature
  • Chakrabarti, S., Handbook of Offshore Engineering, vol. I&II, Elsevier 2005.
  • Mc Cormick, M.E., Ocean Wave Energy Conversion, Dover 2007.
  • Infeld, E., Rowlands, G., Nonlinear Waves, Solitons and Chaos, Cambridge 2000.
  • Johnson, R.S., A Modern Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Water Waves, Cambridge 1997.
  • Lykousis, V. et al., Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Springer 2007.
  • Nielsen, P., Coastal Bottom Boundary Layers and Sediment Transport, World Scientific 2005.
  • Research Articles.


Module M0527: Marine Soil Technics

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Analysis of Maritime Systems (L0068) Lecture 2 2
Analysis of Maritime Systems (L0069) Recitation Section (small) 1 1
Offshore Geotechnical Engineering (L0067) Lecture 2 2
Module Responsible Dr. Joachim Gerth
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Knowledge in analysis and differential equations

Basics of maritime technology

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

Students can use the basic techniques for the analysis of offshore systems, including the related studies of the properties of the seabed, to provide an overview about that topic. Furthermore they can explain the associated content taking into account the specialist adjacent contexts.


Skills

Students are able to model and evaluate dynamic offshore systems. Consequently they are also able to think system-oriented and to break down complex system into subsystems .

Personal Competence
Social Competence
Autonomy

Students can independently exploit sources , acquire the particular knowledge about the subject area and transform it to new questions. Furthermore, they can concrete assess their specific learning level within the exercise hours guided by teachers and can consequently define the further workflow. 

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 2 hours written exam
Assignment for the Following Curricula Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Elective Compulsory
Course L0068: Analysis of Maritime Systems
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud, Dr. Alexander Mitzlaff
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  1. Hydrostatic analysis
    • Buoyancy,
    • Stability,
  2. Hydrodynamic analysis
    • Froude-Krylov force
    • Morison's equation,
    • Radiation and diffraction
    • transparent/compact structures
  3. Evaluation of offshore structures: Reliability techniques (security, reliability, disposability)
    • Short-term statistics
    • Long-term statistics and extreme events
Literature
  • G. Clauss, E. Lehmann, C. Östergaard. Offshore Structures Volume I: Conceptual Design and Hydrodynamics. Springer Verlag Berlin, 1992
  • E. V. Lewis (Editor), Principles of Naval Architecture ,SNAME, 1988
  • Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
  • Proceedings of International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
  • S. Chakrabarti (Ed.), Handbook of Offshore Engineering, Volumes 1-2, Elsevier, 2005
  • S. K. Chakrabarti, Hydrodynamics of Offshore Structures , WIT Press, 2001


Course L0069: Analysis of Maritime Systems
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Prof. Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud, Dr. Volker Müller
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content See interlocking course
Literature See interlocking course
Course L0067: Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Dr. Jan Dührkop
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • Overview and Introduction Offshore Geotechnics
  • Introduction to Soil Mechanics
  • Offshore soil investigation
  • Focus on cyclical effects
  • Geotechnical design of offshore foundations
  • Monopiles
  • Jackets
  • Heavyweight foundations
  • Geotechnical preliminary exploration for the use of lift boats and platforms
Literature
  • Randolph, M. and Gourvenec, S (2011): Offshore Geotechnical Engineering. Spon Press.
  • Poulos H.G. (1988): Marine Geotechnics. Unwin Hyman, London
  • BSH-Standard Baugrunderkundung für Offshore-Windenergieparks
  • Lesny K. (2010): Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines. VGE Verlag, Essen.
  • EA-Pfähle (2012): Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises Pfähle der DGGT. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin.


Module M1132: Maritime Transport

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Maritime Transport (L0063) Lecture 2 3
Maritime Transport (L0064) Recitation Section (small) 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Carlos Jahn
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students are able to…

  • name different players involved in the maritime transport chain and their typical tasks;
  • name common types of cargo and classify cargo to the corresponding categories;
  • name and explain operation modes of maritime shipping, transportation options and management of maritime networks;
  • illustrate main trade routes, straits (existing and possible in the future);
  • name and discuss relevant factors for port / seaport terminal location planning.


Skills

The students are able to...

  • define transportation modes, players involved and their functions in a maritime transportation network;
  • identify possible cost drivers in a maritime transport chain and suggest possible reduction measures;
  • identify, analyse, model and suggest optimisation measures regarding material and information flows within a maritime logistics chain.


Personal Competence
Social Competence

The students are able to...

  • discuss and organise extensive work packages in groups;
  • document and present the elaborated results.
Autonomy
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 124, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 120 minutes
Assignment for the Following Curricula International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Logistics: Elective Compulsory
Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility: Specialisation Production and Logistics: Elective Compulsory
Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility: Specialisation Infrastructure and Mobility: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Elective Compulsory
Theoretical Mechanical Engineering: Specialisation Maritime Technology: Elective Compulsory
Course L0063: Maritime Transport
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Carlos Jahn
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content

The lecture aims to provide detailed knowledge about maritime transportation and to describe its main challenges and functions. In this context, conventional and current problems are dealt with. All actors of a maritime transport chain are considered during the lecture. In this context, ports, vessels and sea routes are analysed and discussed in details. Conventional problems, planning tasks and current subjects, e. g. Green Logistics, are also part of the lecture.



Literature
  • Brinkmann, Birgitt. Seehäfen: Planung und Entwurf. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005.
  • Schönknecht, Axel. Maritime Containerlogistik: Leistungsvergleich von Containerschiffen in intermodalen Transportketten. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2009.
  • Stopford, Martin. Maritime Economics Routledge, 2009
Course L0064: Maritime Transport
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Carlos Jahn
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content

The exercise lesson bases on the haptic management game MARITIME. MARITIME focuses on providing knowledge about structures and processes in a maritime transport network. Furthermore, the management game systematically provides process management methodology and also promotes personal skills of the participants.


Literature
  • Brinkmann, Birgitt. Seehäfen: Planung und Entwurf. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005.


Module M0529: Asset Management and Superordinate Aspects

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Asset Management in the Energy Industry (L0074) Lecture 1 1
Asset Management in the Energy Industry (L0075) Recitation Section (small) 1 1
Logistics and Information Technology (L0065) Lecture 2 2
Hydrogen Technology (L0060) Lecture 2 2
Module Responsible Dr. Joachim Gerth
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge None
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

With completion of this module students can explain basics of asset management involving thematical adjacent contexts and can describe an optimal management of energy systems.

Furthermore, students can reproduce solid theoretical knowledge about the potentials and applications of new information technologies in logistics and explain technical aspects of the use, production and processing of hydrogen.

Skills

With completion of this module students are able to design, adapt and evaluate energy systems with respect to energy economic conditions in an efficient way. This includes that the students can assess the operational planning of power plants from a technical, economic and ecological perspective.

In this context, students can evaluate the potentials of logistics and information technology in particular on energy issues.

In addition, students are able to describe the energy transfer medium hydrogen according to its applications, the given security and its existing service capacities and limits as well as to evaluate these aspects from a technical, environmental and economic perspective.


Personal Competence
Social Competence
Autonomy

Students can independently exploit sources on the emphasis of the lectures and acquire the contained knowledge. In this way, they can recognize their lacks of knowledge and can consequently define the further workflow. 

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 96, Study Time in Lecture 84
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale
Assignment for the Following Curricula Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Elective Compulsory
Course L0074: Asset Management in the Energy Industry
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Michael Sagorje
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Introduction to different classes of energy management assets
    (Thermal power plants, hydro power plants, gas storage, ...)
  • Influence of uncertainties
  • Management of these assets under uncertainties
  • Economic valuation of these assets taking into account the optionality
  • Economic cover of these assets


Literature Folien zur Vorlesung
Course L0075: Asset Management in the Energy Industry
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 1
CP 1
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 16, Study Time in Lecture 14
Lecturer Michael Sagorje
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content See interlocking course
Literature See interlocking course
Course L0065: Logistics and Information Technology
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Thorsten Blecker
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  •   Basics of Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  •   Basis of Information Management
  •   Basics of Information Systems
  •   Empirical Studies Related to IT in Supply Chains
  •   Relevance of Information in the Supply Chain
  •   Logistics Information Systems
  •   Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  •   E-Logistics
  •   Electronic Sourcing
  •   E-Supply Chains
  •   Case Studies and New Technical Developments


Literature
  • Kummer, S./Einbock, M., Westerheide, C.: RFID in der Logistik – Handbuch für die Praxis, Wien 2005.

Pepels, W. (Hsg.): E-Business-Anwendungen in der Betriebswirtschaft, Herne/Berlin 2002.

Reindl, M./Oberniedermaier, G.: eLogistics: Logistiksysteme und -prozesse im Internetzeitalter, München et al. 2002.

Schulte, C.: Logistik, 5. Auflage, München 2009

Wildemann, H.: Logistik Prozessmanagement, 4. Aufl., München 2009.

Wildemann H. (Hsg.): Supply Chain Management, München 2000.


Course L0060: Hydrogen Technology
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content
  1. Energy economy
  2. Hydrogen economy
  3. Occurrence and properties of hydrogen
  4. Production of hydrogen (from hydrocarbons and by electrolysis)
  5. Separation and purification Storage and transport of hydrogen 
  6. Security
  7. Fuel cells
  8. Projects
Literature
  • Skriptum zur Vorlesung
  • Winter, Nitsch: Wasserstoff als Energieträger
  • Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
  • Kirk, Othmer: Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
  • Larminie, Dicks: Fuel cell systems explained


Module M0555: Dimensioning and Assessment of Renewable Energy Systems

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
CAPE in Energy Engineering (L0022) Projection Course 2 2
Environmental Technology and Energy Economics (L0137) Problem-based Learning 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Admission Requirements none
Recommended Previous Knowledge none
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students can describe current issue and problems in the field of renewable energies. Furthermore, they can describe the basics of the general procedure for the processing of modeling tasks, especially with ASPEN PLUS ® and ASPEN CUSTOM MODELER ®.


Skills

Students are able to simulate and solve scientific task in the context of renewable energy technologies by:    

  • development of modul-comprehensive approaches for the dimensioning, design and evaluation of (renewable) energy systems,
  • evaluating alternatives input parameter to solve the particular task even with incomplete information,
  • a systematic documentation of the work results in form of a written version, the presentation itself and the defense of contents.

They can use the ASPEN PLUS ® and ASPEN CUSTOM MODELER ® for modeling energy systems and to evaluate the simulation solutions.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

 Students can

  • work together as a team with around 2-3 participants,
  • participate in subject-specific and interdisciplinary discussions to design and evaluate (renewable) energy systems and to develop cooperated solutions,
  •  can accept professional constructive criticism.

Autonomy

Students can independently tap knowledge of the particular task. They are capable, in consultation with supervisors, to assess their learning level and define further steps on this basis. 

Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 94, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 5
Examination Written elaboration
Examination duration and scale
Assignment for the Following Curricula Bioprocess Engineering: Specialisation A - General Bioprocess Engineering: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Compulsory
Course L0022: CAPE in Energy Engineering
Typ Projection Course
Hrs/wk 2
CP 2
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 32, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content
  • CAPE = Computer-Aided-Project-Engineering

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY    
    • Classes of simulation programs
    • Sequential modular approach
    • Equation-oriented approach
    • Simultaneous modular approach
    • General procedure for the processing of modeling tasks
    • Special procedure for solving models with repatriations
  • COMPUTER EXERCISES renewable energy projects WITH ASPEN PLUS ® AND ASPEN CUSTOM MODELER ®    
    • Scope, potential and limitations of Aspen Plus ® and Aspen Custom Modeler ®
    • Use of integrated databases for material data
    • Methods for estimating non-existent physical property data
    • Use of model libraries and Process Synthesis
    • Application of design specifications and sensitivity analyzes
    • Solving optimization problems
Literature
  • Aspen Plus® - Aspen Plus User Guide
  • William L. Luyben; Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation; ISBN-10: 0-471-77888-5
Course L0137: Environmental Technology and Energy Economics
Typ Problem-based Learning
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
Language DE/EN
Cycle WiSe
Content
  • Preliminary discussion with the rules of the lecture
  • Issue of topics from the field of renewable energy technology in the form of a tender of engineering services to a group of students (depending on the number of participating students)
  • "Procurement" deal with aspects of the design, costing and environmental, economic and technical evaluation of various energy generation concepts (eg onshore wind power generation, commercial-scale photovoltaic power generation, biogas production, geothermal power and heat generation) under very special circumstances
  • Submission of a written solution of the task and distribution to the participants by the student / group of students
  • Presentation of the edited theme (20 min) with PPT presentation and subsequent discussion (20 minutes)
  • Attendance is mandatory for all seminars

Literature

Eigenständiges Literaturstudium in der Bibliothek und aus anderen Quellen.

Module M1133: Port Logistics

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Port Logistics (L0686) Lecture 2 3
Port Logistics (L1473) Recitation Section (small) 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Carlos Jahn
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge

none

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students are able to…

  • describe the historical port development (regarding port functions, port terminals and the corresponding operating models) and consider these facts in the historical contest;
  • explain different types of seaport terminals and their typical characteristics (type of cargo, handling and transportation equipment, functional areas);
  • name typical planning and scheduling tasks (e. g. berth planning, stowage planning, yard planning) as well as corresponding approaches (methods and tools) for performing these tasks in seaport terminals;
  • name and discuss trends regarding planning and scheduling in innovative seaport terminals.


Skills

The students are able to…

  • recognise functional areas within seaports and within seaport terminals;
  • define and assess possible operation systems for a container terminal;
  • conduct static calculations of container terminals regarding capacity requirements based on given conditions;
  • reliably estimate how certain conditions effect typical logistics metrics in the context of the static planning process of selected seaport terminals.


Personal Competence
Social Competence

The students are able to…

  • discuss and organise extensive work packages in groups;
  • document and present the elaborated results.


Autonomy
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 124, Study Time in Lecture 56
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 120 minutes
Assignment for the Following Curricula International Management and Engineering: Specialisation II. Logistics: Elective Compulsory
Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility: Specialisation Production and Logistics: Elective Compulsory
Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility: Specialisation Infrastructure and Mobility: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Elective Compulsory
Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering: Core qualification: Elective Compulsory
Theoretical Mechanical Engineering: Specialisation Maritime Technology: Elective Compulsory
Course L0686: Port Logistics
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Carlos Jahn
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content

The outstanding role of maritime transport for international trade requires efficient ports. These must meet numerous requirements in terms of profitability, speed, safety and environment. Recognising this, port logistics contains the planning, management, operation and control of material flows and the corresponding information flows in the system and its interfaces to several actors within and outside the port area. The course “Port Logistics” aims to provide skills to comprehend structures and processes in ports. It focuses on different terminal types, their characteristic layouts, the technical equipment which is used and the interaction between the actors.

Literature
  • Brinkmann, Birgitt. Seehäfen: Planung und Entwurf. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005.


Course L1473: Port Logistics
Typ Recitation Section (small)
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Carlos Jahn
Language DE
Cycle SoSe
Content

The exercise lesson focuses on analytical tasks in the field of terminal planning. During the exercise lesson, the students work in small groups on designing terminal layouts under consideration of given conditions. The calculated logistics metrics, respectively the corresponding terminal layouts must be illustrated in 2D and 3D using special planning software.


Literature
  • Brinkmann, Birgitt. Seehäfen: Planung und Entwurf. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005.

Module M0521: Materials for Energy Conversion Plants

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Building Materials, Damages and Repair (L0056) Lecture 3 3
Design with Polymers and Composites (L0057) Lecture 2 3
Module Responsible Prof. Frank Schmidt-Döhl
Admission Requirements None
Recommended Previous Knowledge

Basic knowledge about material science

Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge

The students are able to select materials for structures made of polymers and composites. They are able to describe the fundamentals of laminate theory and the failure of these materials. The students are able to show the characteristics of mineral building materials, their components and function, manufacture, properties and fields of application. They are able to show different steels for the construction of buildings and their fields of application.

Skills

The students are able to design and to dimension simple structures with polymers and composites. They are able to calculate mixtures of concrete and mortar. The students are able to recognize damages, to assess possible causes, to use the fundamentals of construction preservation and to select repair and strengthening measures.

Personal Competence
Social Competence

Students acquire the ability to evaluate facts within groups and to discuss technical correlations in an appropriate form.

Autonomy
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 110, Study Time in Lecture 70
Credit points 6
Examination Written exam
Examination duration and scale 2 stündige Klausur
Assignment for the Following Curricula Energy Systems: Core qualification: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Bio energies: Elective Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Specialisation Wind energy: Elective Compulsory
Course L0056: Building Materials, Damages and Repair
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 3
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 48, Study Time in Lecture 42
Course work none
Lecturer Prof. Frank Schmidt-Döhl
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content Mineral binders and building materials, concrete, steel in civil engineering, other building materials for energy conversion plants, metal and concrete corrosion, maintenance and repair
Literature

Taylor, H.F.W.: Cement Chemistry

Springenschmid, R.: Betontechnologie für die Praxis

Blaich, J.: Bauschäden, Analyse und Vermeidung

BetonMarketing Deutschland (Hrsg.): Stahlbetonoberflächen - schützen, erhalten, instandsetzen

Course L0057: Design with Polymers and Composites
Typ Lecture
Hrs/wk 2
CP 3
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 62, Study Time in Lecture 28
Lecturer Prof. Bodo Fiedler
Language DE
Cycle WiSe
Content Designing with Polymers: Materials Selection; Structural Design; Dimensioning
Designing with Composites: Laminate Theory; Failure Criteria; Design of Pipes and Shafts; Sandwich Structures; Notches; Joining Techniques; Compression Loading; Examples
Literature

Konstruieren mit Kunststoffen, Gunter Erhard , Hanser Verlag


Thesis

Module M-002: Master Thesis

Courses
Title Typ Hrs/wk CP
Module Responsible Professoren der TUHH
Admission Requirements
  • According to General Regulations §24 (1):

    At least 126 ECTS credit points have to be achieved in study programme. The examinations board decides on exceptions.

Recommended Previous Knowledge
Educational Objectives After taking part successfully, students have reached the following learning results
Professional Competence
Knowledge
  • The students can use specialized knowledge (facts, theories, and methods) of their subject competently on specialized issues.
  • The students can explain in depth the relevant approaches and terminologies in one or more areas of their subject, describing current developments and taking up a critical position on them.
  • The students can place a research task in their subject area in its context and describe and critically assess the state of research.


Skills

The students are able:

  • To select, apply and, if necessary, develop further methods that are suitable for solving the specialized problem in question.
  • To apply knowledge they have acquired and methods they have learnt in the course of their studies to complex and/or incompletely defined problems in a solution-oriented way.
  • To develop new scientific findings in their subject area and subject them to a critical assessment.
Personal Competence
Social Competence

Students can

  • Both in writing and orally outline a scientific issue for an expert audience accurately, understandably and in a structured way.
  • Deal with issues competently in an expert discussion and answer them in a manner that is appropriate to the addressees while upholding their own assessments and viewpoints convincingly.


Autonomy

Students are able:

  • To structure a project of their own in work packages and to work them off accordingly.
  • To work their way in depth into a largely unknown subject and to access the information required for them to do so.
  • To apply the techniques of scientific work comprehensively in research of their own.
Workload in Hours Independent Study Time 900, Study Time in Lecture 0
Credit points 30
Examination according to Subject Specific Regulations
Examination duration and scale see FSPO
Assignment for the Following Curricula Civil Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Bioprocess Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Computer Science: Thesis: Compulsory
Electrical Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Energy Systems: Thesis: Compulsory
Environmental Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Aircraft Systems Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Global Innovation Management: Thesis: Compulsory
Computational Science and Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Information and Communication Systems: Thesis: Compulsory
International Production Management: Thesis: Compulsory
International Management and Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Joint European Master in Environmental Studies - Cities and Sustainability: Thesis: Compulsory
Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility: Thesis: Compulsory
Materials Science: Thesis: Compulsory
Mechanical Engineering and Management: Thesis: Compulsory
Mechatronics: Thesis: Compulsory
Biomedical Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Microelectronics and Microsystems: Thesis: Compulsory
Product Development, Materials and Production: Thesis: Compulsory
Renewable Energies: Thesis: Compulsory
Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Ship and Offshore Technology: Thesis: Compulsory
Theoretical Mechanical Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Process Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory
Water and Environmental Engineering: Thesis: Compulsory