The 3-Day Seminar provides an insight into Urban mobility aspects including fuels (electricity, batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen, biomethane), charging infrastructure, country overviews (CH, FIN, ISR, IT, N, UK), market-active companies, and notions of enterpreneurship in the field.
The students assess and compare all renewable energy resources, their real potentials, limitations and best applications (energy services). Solar thermal, solar electric, wood, bioliquids, biogas, hydropower incl. tidal and wave power, wind, geothermal incl. heat pumps and buildings.
The students describe and explain the thermodynamic and operating principles of internal combustion engines and all fuel cell types, identify the determining physical parameters for the operating regimes, the efficiencies and the polluting emissions, and compare the systems against each other.
This course aims at familiarizing the student with state of the art applications of electrochemistry in materials science and technology as well as material requirements for electrochemical engineering.