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Week - 1 |
Introduction to Energy: The concept of energy, classification of energy, general characteristics of energy sources, the concept of clean energy, and the importance of energy for society |
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Week - 2 |
Energy Use and Energy Technologies: Energy use, energy units, energy conversions, energy technologies, energy efficiency, and the sustainable energy approach. |
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Week - 3 |
Fossil Fuels and the Search for Alternative Energy: Characteristics of fossil fuels, their environmental and ecological negative impacts, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, and the transition toward clean energy sources. |
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Week - 4 |
Physical Fundamentals of Solar Energy: Internal structure and energy balance of the Sun, nuclear fusion and energy production, solar spectrum, blackbody approximation, and solar radiation reaching the Earth. |
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Week - 5 |
olar Radiation and Solar Energy Calculations: Solar constant, effects of the Earth’s orbit, atmospheric attenuation, radiation components, sunshine duration, solar angles, and calculation of total solar radiation using simple models. |
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Week - 6 |
Solar Energy Technologies: Solar thermal technologies, flat-plate collectors, evacuated tube collectors, concentrated solar power systems, photovoltaic technologies, physical basis of PV systems, I–V curve, and basic solar cell parameters |
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Week - 7 |
EN: Wind Energy: Wind formation, classification of wind, basic concepts related to wind energy, methods used in wind energy assessment, power and power density function, and usable wind energy |
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Week - 8 |
Geothermal Energy: Formation of geothermal energy, geothermal gradient, components of geothermal systems, types of geothermal resources, phase diagram of water, steam tables, sustainability in geothermal systems, and geothermal energy in the world and in Türkiye |
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Week - 9 |
Bioenergy and Biomass: Concepts of bioenergy and biomass, biomass resources, basic characterization of biomass, and physical, biological, biochemical, and thermal conversion processes applied to biomass. |
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Week - 10 |
Ambient Energy and Heat Pumps: Concept of ambient energy, operating principle of heat pumps, coefficient of performance, air-source, ground-source, and water-source heat.pumps, use of waste heat, and cooling with heat pumps |
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Week - 11 |
Wave and Ocean Energy: Physical mechanism of waves, wave parameters, wave energy converters, tidal energy, ocean current energy, ocean thermal energy, salinity gradient, and osmotic energy. |
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Week - 12 |
Hydrogen Energy: Basic properties of hydrogen energy, hydrogen production methods, storage and transportation technologies, introduction to fuel cells, advantages of hydrogen energy, and major challenges. |
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Week - 13 |
Nuclear Energy and Clean Energy Discussions: Physical fundamentals of nuclear energy, fission energy, introduction to nuclear reactors, advantages and risks of nuclear energy, nuclear waste problem, and evaluation of nuclear energy in the context of clean energy. |
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Week - 14 |
General Evaluation and Student Presentations: Comparison of clean energy sources, discussion of selected current examples, student presentations, general review of the course, and end-of-term evaluation |
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