master of science in energy engineering · engineering of solar thermal processes the course is...

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN

ENERGY ENGINEERING

INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA

STRUCTURE OF THE STUDY PROGRAMME

One degreeLaurea magistrale in Ingegneria energetica – Energy Engineering

Equivalent to Master of Science (M.Sc.)

Six tracks• Power Generation – Produzione di potenza (120 ECTS available in Italian

as well as English – Milano Bovisa)

• Termotecnica – Energy Use and Built Environment (120 ECTS available in Italian – Milano Bovisa)

• Oil and Gas Production (120 ECTS available in English – Milano Bovisa)

• Green Power Systems (120 ECTS available in English – Milano Bovisa)

• Renewables and Sustainability (120 ECTS available in English – Piacenza)

• Energy for Development (120 ECTS available in English – Milano Bovisa)


TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Overall ETCS: 120 = 100 Courses + 20 Thesis

• Fundamentals (28 to 36 ECTS): common to all the tracks and available on free choice in English and in Italian• Heat and Mass Transfer (10 ECTS)• Energy Conversion (10 ECTS) or Heating and Cooling Systems• Fundamentals of Chemical Processes (8 ECTS)• Electric Power Systems (8 ECTS)

• Specialized (32 ECTS): giving the character of each track

• Interdisciplinary (32 ECTS): linking various engineering areas• Guided choice in groups (24 ECTS)• Free choice (8 ECTS) among all the subjects of the Study Programme

or in the Soft Skills group


POWER GENERATION:TOPICS


POWER GENERATION:TOPICS

Conventional power plants Industrial processes

Turbomachines Internal combustion engines


POWER GENERATION:SPECIALIZATION COURSES

Energy Conversion A – Conversione dell’Energia AThe course covers the electricity generation in power plants, focusing in particular on the inherent relation among working fluids, thermodynamic cycles and main equipment (turbomachinery and heat exchangers)

Chemical processes and technologiesThe course provides the bases of chemical and physical equilibria and on chemical kinetics, which are necessary for the understanding of unit operations and chemical processes relevant to applications in the energy field



Sistemi energetici avanzatiIl corso è incentrato sulla produzione di vettori energetici decarbonizzati (elettricità e idrogeno) da impianti fossili

Internal combustion enginesThe course covers the phenomena occurring in a four-stroke engine, from inlet to exhaust trough combustion

Turbomachinery BThe course provides a physical and mathematical description of the main turbomachinery



Numerical and experimental laboratories at Department of Energy are of interest for thesis purposes, such as:

• MRT Fuel cells

• Laboratorio Computational Fluidynamic

• Laboratory of Fluid-dynamics of Turbomachinery

• Laboratory of Micro-Cogeneration

• Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engines

• Catalysis and Catalytic Processes Laboratory


POWER GENERATION:JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Design, construction, maintenance and managing engineers at

• power utilities

• energy and gas distributors

• engineering procurement and construction

• energy service companies

• manufacturing companies

• processes industries


TERMOTECNICA - ENERGY USE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT: TOPICS

In 2016, households (i.e. the built environment) account for 25.7% of European end-use energy consumption


TERMOTECNICA - ENERGY USE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT: TOPICS


TERMOTECNICA - ENERGY USE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT: SPECIALIZATION COURSES

Efficienza energetica negli edifici (Energy efficiency for the built environment)

The course is aimed at providing the knowledge and the tools needed to design the envelope of high performance buildings (low energy consumption, high comfort quality).

Green building energy systems

The course is aimed at providing the knowledge needed to design a "green" building, i.e. a building that uses fewer resources and reduces environmental impact while maximizing occupant health.


TERMOTECNICA - ENERGY USE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT: SPECIALIZATION COURSES

Engineering of solar thermal processes

The course is aimed at providing advanced understanding of solar thermal energy and the limitations it imposes on the performance of solar thermal systems.

Progettazione di impianti termici (HVAC systems design)

The course is aimed at providing the knowledge and the tools needed to design an HVAC system starting from the scratch.


TERMOTECNICA - ENERGY USE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT: LABORATORIES

Wide variety of laboratories in which it is possible to carry out the final thesis.

Both fundamentals (e.g. heat transfer during evaporation and condensation, materials for humidification/dehumidification, ground thermal response with groundwater flow etc.) and applied (e.g. refrigerants, compressor and heat pump performance, desiccant wheels, clean room, solar systems etc.) research activities.


TERMOTECNICA - ENERGY USE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT: JOB OPPORTUNITIES

• Freelance/consultant engineer in the field of HCAV systems design.

• Energy manager in medium and big companies.

• Project engineer/project manager in companies that manufacture HVAC components (boilers, heat pumps, chillers, fans, clean rooms etc…). Some example: Ariston, Aermec, Daikin, Euroklimat, Mitsubishi, Vaillant, Viessman, etc…


OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION:TOPICS


OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION:TOPICS

Exploration Production

Tranportation Refining


OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION:SPECIALIZATION COURSES

Chemical processes and technologiesThe course provides the bases of chemical and physical equilibria and on chemical kinetics, which are necessary for the understanding of unit operations and chemical processes relevant to applications in the energy field

Fundamentals of Oil and Gas engineeringThis subject deals with geology, hydraulics and physics matters mainly, including the most advanced concepts of physics and chemistry of 2 and 3 phase reservoir systems


OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION:SPECIALIZATION COURSES

Transport Phenomena in petroleum reservoirsThe course will cover the basic processes associated with fluid flow in porous and fractured media, starting from phenomenological and theoretical interpretation of Darcy's Law and its extensions to multiphase flows

Oil and Gas field development and production

The course will provide the basis for understanding how an oil or gas field is designed, developed and managed during the production life


OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION:JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Design, construction, maintenance and managing engineers at

• oil and gas companies

• oil and gas service companies

• petrochemical industries

• chemical industries


GREEN POWER SYSTEMS:TOPICS

Green Power Systems: design of renewable power plants and energy systems with low environmental impact



Modern renewables consumption by regionMillion tonnes oil equivalent

Investments in additional

power capacity


GREEN POWER SYSTEMS:SPECIALIZATION COURSES

WIND, HYDRO AND GEOTHERMAL POWER GENERATION

The course deals with technical and economic issues related to the design and operation of a renewable power plant based on 3 renewable sources: wind, hydro and geothermal energy. Wind energy (i): working principles, design criteria of a turbine, drive-train configurations, generator technologies and power electronics, control strategies, anemological characterization of a site, design criteria of a wind farm. Off-shore wind technology, electrical connection to the national grid. Small and micro wind turbines. Environmental impact of wind farms. Geothermal energy (ii): classification of geothermal sources, investigation techniques, drilling technologies. Power plant based on direct, binary (ORC) or hybrid cycles. Cogenerative and thermal applications, geothermal heat pumps. Environmental impact. Hydroelectric power (iii): classification based on hydraulic machines and plant layout. Estimation of the hydraulic resource. Design criteria, operating mode and economic assessment of a hydro plant. Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity (PSH). Small-hydro, design criteria of a run-of-river plant. Environmental impact.

SOLAR AND BIOMASS POWER GENERATION

The course provides knowledge, applying knowledge, understanding and making judgements of solar and biomass energy for power production. Starting from the characterization of solar and biomass as primary energy sources, the conversion principle with the corresponding theoretical limits are discussed setting the base for the selection. For solar energy, the components and design criteria of Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power plants (CSP) are provided. About biomass resource, the biochemical and thermochemical conversion processes will be described in more detail giving a particular attention to the biogas technology for electricity generation. Finally, a methodology for the economic and environmental assessment of the different technology is provided.


GREEN POWER SYSTEMS:SPECIALIZATION COURSES

ELECTRIC CONVERSION FROM GREEN SOURCES OF ENERGY

The goal of the course is to provide students with the knowledge of fundamental elements of the energy conversion produced by renewable sources and their connection to the electric grid. The course includes the analysis, modelling and sizing methods of electronic power converters and electric machines suitable to photovoltaic and wind applications. The first part of the course teaches the principles of the static conversion of electric energy, and the working principles of the AC/DC, DC/DC and DC/AC power electronic converters. The control of power converters and the design of power semiconductor cooling systems are introduced. The second part of the course teaches the working principles of both static and rotating electrical machines. Asynchronous machine, synchronous machine and permanent magnet synchronous machine are analyzed from the point of view of their use as generators in wind power generation systems. The course introduces the layouts of power plants for the electricity generation from renewable sources, as well as the limits and constraints for their connection to the grid.

DESIGN OF FLUID MACHINES FOR CLEAN POWER GENERATION

The course provides the necessary basic skills for the aerodynamic design and performance analysis of fluid machines in the frame of power production from renewable energy, focusing on wind and hydraulic turbines. Generalities on airfoils for fluid machines. Aerodynamic forces. Velocity triangles for rotating blades. Effect of incidence. Stall. Effect of Reynolds number. Effect of roughness. Three dimensional effects. Solidity. 1D and 3D approaches: Betz and Glauert models and relevant limits. Development of two 3D BEM (Blade Element Momentum) codes one for horizontal and obe for vertical axis wind turbines (Double Multiple Stream Tube), suitable for design, regulation and performance analysis. Most relevant models for BEM correction. Power from the waves and the Wells turbine for OWC: operating principle and preliminary design. (8 CFU) Hydraulic turbines for small hydro power application. Hydraulic similarity. Single and double regulating axial turbines, propeller-like and bulb turbine: operating curves at variable rpm. Hill charts. Preliminary design of an axial flow turbine.


GREEN POWER SYSTEMS:LABORATORIES

Solar roof:

• Performance analysis and comparison of PV modules, inverters, control systems

• Monitoring of traditional, PVT (Photovotaic Thermal) and CPVT (concentrated PVT)

• Monitoring of small vertical axis wind turbine

Lab Micro-Cogeneration:• Possibility to operate stand-alone

microgrids at 50 and 60Hz• Emulation of electrical and thermal loads

with customized profiles• Electrochemical, heat and cold storages• Implementation and testing of Energy

Management systems• Possibility to install, control and test

micro-cogenerators

Experimental Activities on Microgrids:


GREEN POWER SYSTEMS:JOB OPPORTUNITIES

• Power utilities (production, transportation and distribution of electricity, especially from renewable sources): ENEL Green power, ENI, A2A, Edison, Falck Renewables….

• Energy engineering consulting companies dealing with the design, construction, testing, operation and maintenance of (renewable) energy plants: Engie, ESE, Energy Team, Altran…

• Companies producing machines and components (wind turbines, heat exchangers, compressors, turbines, engines, boilers, refrigerators): Vestas, Siemens, Ansaldo, Bono Energia, Nooter Eriksen, ArchimedeSolar Energy,…

• Energy Service Company (ESCO): A2A Energy Solutions, Cogeme, SIRAM,…

• As “energy managers” in companies and large energy users


RENEWABLES AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:THE PIACENZA CAMPUS

• Very well-connected to whole Italy Milano-Piacenza takes about 45’

• Limited number of Students per Teacher teaching on a human scale

• Strong internationalisation about 50% of RES students is foreign

• Strong collaboration with local companies possibilities for stage-based MSc Thesis


RENEWABLES AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:TOPICS

• Inter-disciplinary topics pertaining to the areas of Energy and Environmental Engineering

• Study of the (environmental) reasons of the current energy transition

1st semester: deepening mathematics & chemistry + introduction

• “Advanced Mathematical Methods” (10 CFU) focus on optimization

• “Fundamentals of Chemical Processes for Energy and the Environment” (8 CFU)

• “Electric Conversion of Renewable Energy Sources” (8 CFU)

• Possible preparatory course on “Energy Systems” or “Energy and Environmental Technologies for Building Systems” (8 CFU)

Basic CoursesElectric Engineering

«Smart grids»Environmental

EngineeringEnergy

Engineering


2nd semester: study of Energy Systems

“Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Technologies” (10 CFU)


“Smart Grids and Regulation for Renewable Energy Sources” (8 CFU)

“Fluid Machines for Low Carbon Technologies” (8 CFU)



EngineeringEnergy

Engineering


3rd semester: Energy Systems & Environmental Impact

“Bioenergy and Waste-to-Energy Technologies” (10 CFU)


“Air Pollution and Control Engineering” (10 CFU)

“Industrial Ecology” (8 CFU)Basic Courses

Electric Engineering «Smart grids»

Environmental Engineering

Energy Engineering


4th semester: Completion of studies and Graduation Thesis

“Managing Power Plants Projects” (8 CFU)


“Graduation Thesis” (16 CFU)- c/o different Departments of Polimi (DENG / DICA / DEIB / …)

- c/o LEAP / MUSP (Tecnopolo di Piacenza)- c/o LEAP MatER Study Centre (Materials and Energy from Refuse)

- within the framework of Regional / National / International Research Projects- in collaboration (possibly through internship) with local or international companies

“Energy and Environmental Technologies for Building Systems” – Piacenza Campusor a course from the “Group Leonardo” – Leonardo Campus

or a course from the “Group S1” – Bovisa Campus(8 CFU)



EngineeringEnergy

Engineering


RENEWABLES AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES

• Large availability of classrooms and study spaces

• Campus open from 7.30 to 24.00

• Library open also Saturday and Sunday

LEAP Laboratory

(Laboratorio Energia-Ambiente Pc)• Possibilities for developing Graduation Thesis

Experimental / Modelling works

• Use of commercial software

• In-house development of software

• Collaboration with national / international companies

• MatER Study Centre


RENEWABLES AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:JOB OPPORTUNITIES

• Multicultural classes (50% of RES students is foreign) favour an open-mind approach toward international job opportunities

• Support from the local companies favour the leap from academia to industry / consultancy already during the completion of the studies

• After one year from graduation, 50% of RES students are employed in large companies, whereas the remaining 50% in small/medium-size companies

• The type of jobs covers the entire spectrum of the energy sector, from R&D to commercial departments, in companies that produce either goods or services

• For top students, it is possible to candidate for a PhD position, in particular Polimi offers, among others, the Doctorate program in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology (STEN)


Energy is essential to

• Socio-economic development

• Quality of life for the people

• Global security

• Environmental protection

GOAL 7COP21 & COP22 ….SE4ALL

Energy Services Development

ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT:TOPICS


No decrease in resources use, waste & pollution, no

sustainable development

Sudden shortage of energy and resources could put under

threat our societies

ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT:TOPICS

Energy use is at a turning point

Exploitation Extraction Distribution Use Disposal


Energy Strategies FOR the people: => Energy Planning

ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT:SPECIALISATION COURSES

ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS AND THERMOECONOMICS

The course aims at (i) deepening advanced methodologies for analyzing energy systems at

different scales to evaluate their performance in a Life Cycle perspective including, when

possible, different externalities. (ii) starting from the traditional exergy analysis, the course

explore the application of exergy to economics to assess monetary costs for the product of

energy systems; (iii) starting from the traditional country energy balance, the computational

structure of LCA is introduced at national or regional level to analyze the economic &

energy-environmental cost of goods and services

Flipped Classed, Project Works

The main objective of the course is to study climate change challenge in relation with the

energy sector using quantitative tools, use optimization and simulation models to

evaluate the emission reduction and adaptation strategies. The aims are (i) to deepen the

link between global economy, energy, land and climate systems; (ii) to develop a

mathematical models which integrate these components. (iii) to teach programming

languages used in energy-climate planning, such as GAMS, R and Python.

ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE MODELLING AND SCENARIOS

Flipped Classed, Project Works

From the Energy Conversions System to the National Economy

Energy Sector perspective



ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT:SPECIALISATION COURSES

ENGINEERING AND COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

The principle of development economics are key to understand the global challenges of

development. The goal is (i) to ensure that students understand real conditions and

institutions across the world; (ii) to help students develop analytic skills while broadening

their perspectives. (iii) to provide students with the skills to draw independent conclusions

as they confront development problems.

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

The course aims at widening the vision of the students (i) to the nexus between energy and

development with reference to developing areas; (ii) to provide competence for define the

comprehensive energy solution planning (CESP) methodology to formulate energy

project, (iii) to provide tools (MicroGRIDpy, PCM, DSS) to design the energy technical

solutions which can comply with local conditions. The final aim is to design ad hoc energy

solution that meet local needs and exploit local resources.

Energy System Perspective for local Development

Development Economic perspective

Seminars and Esseys

Project Works as Real Case Application to International Calls



ENERGY AND DEVELOPMENT:FACILITIES

UNESCO CHAIR IN ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND MODELLING

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sesam-polimiWeb site: http://sesam.polimi.it/

Social Media

MASTER THESIS Opportunities with


ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT:FACILITIES

UNESCO CHAIR IN ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sesam-polimiWeb site: http://sesam.polimi.it/

Social Media

MASTER THESIS Opportunities with


Energy and Development @ POLIMI


ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT:JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Professional Opportunities

• ….•Any position for Energy

Engineers

• Eni, Enel, EDF, Edison, Res4Med …..Energy Expert and Planner for

Private Companies

• Eni, Enel, Edison, Marie TechnimontEnergy Advisor within

Company Sustainability Direction

• IEA, IRENA, UNEP, BEI, World Bank….Energy Analyst for

international organizations

• CEFA, ACRA, AVSI, COOPI, Lacor Hospital, COSV…Energy Manager for non

governmental organizations

• PWC, Deloitte, BIT….Consultant within Consultancy

company


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