Week 1:
| Monday - 07/23 | Tuesday - 07/24 | Wednesday - 07/25 | Thursday - 07/26 | Friday - 07/27 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:40 AM | Opening Cerimony - Welcome | Roberto Zilles Solar photovoltaic - Developments at IEE-USP | Claudio Pacheco and Soteris Kalogirou Solar thermal - power systems | J. Simões-Moreira and Gerhard Ett Fuel cell - working principles | J. Simões-Moreira and Gerhard Ett hdrogen production and storage for fuel cells |
| 9:40 - 10:10 AM | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break |
| 10:10 - 11:50 AM | J. Aquiles Grimoni and Stefan Krauter Introduction of solar photovoltaic. Basic Concepts of PV Solar Energy and solarimetry. Evolution of technologies and history | Roberto Zilles Solar photovoltaic - technical visit laboratory of IEE-USP | Claudio Pacheco and Soteris Kalogirou Solar thermal - power systems | J. Simões-Moreira and Gerhard Ett Fuel cell - types, operational aspects, new trends and advanced technologies | J. Simões-Moreira and Gerhard Ett Fuel cell - final usage. Automotive, Distributed generation |
| 11:50 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:40 PM | J. Aquiles Grimoni and Stefan Krauter Global evolution of facilities and industry, world market and costs | Claudio Pacheco and Soteris Kalogirou Solar thermal - solar industrial process heat | Claudio Pacheco and Soteris Kalogirou Designing and modeling solar energy systems | J. Aquiles Grimoni and Paulo Jorge Rosa Santos Introduction to Marine Renewable Energies (waves, ocean currents, tidal currents, tidal range, ocean thermal energy conversion, salinity gradient, biomass, wind and sun) | J. Aquiles Grimoni and Paulo Jorge Rosa Santos Wave Energy - Generation and propagation of ocean waves. Wave forecasting and hindcasting. Wave transformation in shallow waters (e.g., shoaling, refraction, diffraction, reflection, breaking, run-up, overtopping). Methods to analyze wave records: time-domain zero-crossing techniques and frequency domain techniques (spectral analysis). Exercises |
| 3:40 - 4:10 PM | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break |
| 4:10 - 5:50 PM | J. Aquiles Grimoni and Stefan Krauter Research and New Technologies | Claudio Pacheco and Soteris Kalogirou
| Claudio Pacheco and Marcelo de Lemos
| J. Aquiles Grimoni and Paulo Jorge Rosa Santos Tidal Energy - Generation and characteristics. Tide records and tide forecasting. Resource assessment. Technologies for tidal energy harnessing and supporting structures: advantages and limitations. Best locations for tidal energy harnessing. Expected impacts - tidal currents versus tidal barrages. Exercises currents, tidal range, ocean thermal energy conversion, salinity gradient, biomass, wind and sun). | J. Aquiles Grimoni and Paulo Jorge Rosa Santos Wave Energy - Resource characterization. Technologies for wave energy harnessing: main challenges. Marine growth. Energy storage. Wave energy versus wind energy. Planning and modelling of projects for the exploration of marine energy: techniques in use. Physical modelling. Pilot testing sites. Economical analysis: Levelized cost of energy (LCOE).Exercises. |
Week 2:
| Monday - 07/30 | Tuesday - 07/31 | Wednesday - 08/01 | Thursday - 08/02 | Friday - 08/03 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:40 AM | Suani Coelho Introduction to bioenerg | Suani Coelho Introduction | Demetrio C. Zachariadis and Zhen Gao Introduction to wind power: history, state of the art, trends and challenges | project development | Presentation of student work (in group) |
| 9:40 - 10:10 AM | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | ||
| 10:10 - 11:50 AM | Charles Kinoshita Advanced technologies for biomass energy conversion | Eric Larson Biomass energy use - viability analysis | Demetrio Zachariadis and Zhen Gao Dynamic Analysis, focusing on Vertical Axis Wind Turbines | project development | Presentation of student work (in group) |
| 11:50 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:40 PM | Charles Kinoshita Advanced technologies for biomass energy use | Eric Larson Biomass energy use - LCA and value chain | Ahda Pavani and Katherine Dykes Wind power: grid connection, loss reduction, wind farm optimization, control and operation of turbines and farms | project development | Presentation of student work (in group) |
| 3:40 - 4:10 PM | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | ||
| 4:10 - 5:50 PM | Luiz Cortez Biofuels in Brazil | José Silveira Some Applications in Bioenergy and Renewable Energy | Ahda Pavani and Katherine Dykes Wind power: loss reduction, wind farm optimization, control and operation of turbines and farms | project development | Closing Cerimony |
