Energies for Ecodistricts - 5EU5DH7

Informations générales

  • Number of hours

    • Lectures 30.0
    • Projects -
    • Tutorials 14.0
    • Internship -
    • Laboratory works 16.0

    ECTS

    ECTS 5.0

Goal(s)

For the “energy networks” section, students will be able to:
-Understand, analyze and size the production, storage and distribution of energy networks (heat, gas, electricity).

For the “system reliability” section, students will be able to
-develop models of system reliability, with increasing complexity
-evaluate and analyze a system's dependability performance
-take account of dependability requirements in the design and management of a system
-design a system to comply with dependability specifications

Responsible(s)

Benoit DELINCHANT

Content(s)

  • Power to Gas and Gas to Power
    o Hydrogen production from fossil fuel and renewable energy
    o Hydrogen storage and transport
    o Hydrogen safety
    o Laboratory work
    o Conferences
  • An Introduction to District Heating
    o The fundamental idea of district heating
    o Demand
    ? Heat demand (space heating, domestic hot water supply, industrial heat demands, other demands)
    ? Heat loads
    ? Substation
    ? One-way
    ? Two-way
    o Distribution
    ? District heating network
    ? Two-pipes, three-pipes and four-pipes systems
    ? The anergy-grid concept
    ? Distribution heat losses and pressure losses
    ? Non-meshed vs meshed grids
    ? Grid control and operating modes
    o Heat supply
    ? Base and Peak generators + thermal storage
    ? Boilers
    ? CHP (Combined Heat And Power)
    ? Solar
    ? Geothermal
    ? Heat-pump
    ? Intelligent control of district heating systems
    ? Expert law vs. optimal control
    ? Short-term heat load forecasting
    ? Production and distribution optimal control
    ? Demand-side management in district heating
  • Réseaux de chaleur solaires et stockage = « Solar District Heat and storage »
    o Integration of solar thermal heat in district heating networks: solar collectors, dimensioning, storage needs, economical analysis, existing examples
    o Review of the main processes for thermal energy storage : from material properties to the system, from low to high temperature, from short duration to interseaonnal storage..
    o Project/case study: parametrical investigation of solar heat production in a district heating system
  • Systems reliability, dependability and safety
    o Probabilistic failure models and lifetime modelling of engineering components
    o Qualitative approaches to system reliability analysis (FMECA, ...)
    o Reliability modelling and analysis of systems and networks of independent components (Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability Block Diagrams, Event Tree Analysis, Structure Function, Minimal Cutsets, Importance Measures)
    o Markov processes for systems and networks reliability modelling (systems with dependent components, passive redundancies, tested components, ...)
    o Reliability of maintained systems and maintenance policies modelling
    o Reliability of safety instrumented systems (IEC 61508)
    Bibliography
  • Marvin Rausand, Arnljot Hoyland, System Reliability Theory - Models, Statistical Methods and Applications. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. 2004.
  • J.D. Andrews, T.R. Moss, Reliability and Risk Assessment. Longman Scientific & Technical. 1993
  • M. Modarres, What every engineer should know about Reliability and Risk Analysis. Marcel Dekker. 1993

Prerequisites

Heat transfer and thermodynamic

Test

First session
Continous assessment (CC1) : BE
Final assessment (ET1) : 2h written exam

Second session
Final assessment (ET2) : the new mark will replace the first one (ET1).
Continous assessment (CC1 = CC2) : transfer of the grade from session 1 to session 2, no resit for the CC1 assessment.

The exam is given in english only FR

Calendar

The course exists in the following branches:

  • Curriculum - Master's Degree in Engineering SEM - Semester 9 (this course is given in english only EN)
see the course schedule for 2026-2027

Additional Information

Course ID : 5EU5DH7
Course language(s): FR

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