Course (certified) on Tech Diplomacy

The course aims to give a general overview about operation of equipments based on thermodynamical cycles and shows how real processes are running inside these equipments. Basics of combustion technology will be introduced also, because in most of the cases heat is gained from combustion. A lot of everyday life energy utilization procedure or system operation is made understandable e.g. principals of firing from camp-fires or domestic heaters to power station boilers, operation principals of air-conditioning, heat pump, steam- and gas-turbine internal combustion engine. Environmental effects and pollution if any will be introduced as well. 3 hours/4 credits.