ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Polytechnic Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
Present to students the tools and technologies necessary for the use of renewable energies in the forestry and natural environment
Solar radiation. Photovoltaic solar energy: solar cells, components of two photovoltaic systems, dimensioning of side-by-side and network-connected installations. Photothermal solar energy: solar panels, installation components, installation sizing. Wind energy: conversion principles, resource assessment, site selection, types of aeroxerators, mechanical and electrical systems. Power control.
These contents are developed in the second or following syllabus: Theoretical program:
1. Solar radiation. (1 hour).
2. Photovoltaic solar energy: p-n union. Solar cell characteristics. Solar panels: types and manufacturing technologies. Diodes. (2 hours)
3. Photovoltaic solar energy: Components of photovoltaic systems. Sizing of isolated and network-connected installations. Normative. (2 hours).
4. Solar thermal energy: Solar panels. Facility components. Types of installations. (2 hours).
5. Solar thermal energy: Sizing of installations. Normative. (1 hour)
6. Wind energy: Conversion principles, resource assessment, site selection. (2 hours).
7. Wind energy: Types of aeroxerators, mechanical and electrical systems. Power control. (2 hours).
Practical program:
1. Estimation of solar radiation. Shadow calculation. (1 hour)
2. Sizing and simulation of isolated solar photovoltaic installation. (2 hours).
3. Sizing and simulation of solar photovoltaic water pumping installation. (1 hour).
4. Sizing and simulation of various types of solar thermal installations (3 h).
5. Wind potential estimation (2 h).
Basic:
Castañer, L. 1994. Energía solar fotovoltaica. Ediciones UPC. Madrid.
Méndez Muñiz, J. 2006. Energía solar fotovoltaica. Fundación Confemetal
Fernández Salgado, J.M. 2004. Energía solar térmica en la edificación. A. Madrid Vicente.
Clark, R.N. 2014. Small Wind. Academic Press.
Messenger, R. 2010. Photovoltaic systems engineering. CRC Press.
Complementary:
De Francisco, A. Castillo, M. 1985. Energía solar. Diseño y dimensionamiento de instalaciones.
Fernández Salgado, J.M. 2007. Guía completa de la energía solar fotovoltaica.
Ibañez Plana, J. R. Rosell Polo, J. I. Rosell Urrutia. 2005. Tecnología Solar. AMV.
Makvart, T. 1998. Solar electricity. John Willey & Sons Méndez Muñiz, J. 2006. Energía solar fotovoltaica. Fundación Confemetal.
Basic :
CB7 - That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or little-known areas within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study
CB10 - That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
General:
CG7 - Ability to develop the necessary skills to continue learning autonomously or directed, incorporating new concepts, processes or methods derived from research, development and innovation into their professional activity.
Transverse:
CT1 - Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT3 - Ability to work individually, with a self-critical attitude.
CT5 - Ability to obtain adequate, diverse and updated information.
CT9 – Skill in the management of information and communication technologies (ICT).
CT10 - Use of bibliographic and Internet information.
CT11 - Use of information in a foreign language.
The set of teaching activities to be carried out by students are classified as follows:
1. Expository classes: face-to-face theory classes in which the teacher will present, with the help of audio-visual media, the contents of the program in general terms. The aim of these classes is to provide the students with the basic knowledge that will allow them to approach the study of the subject autonomously with the help of the recommended bibliography and the exercises and assignments they carry out during the course. The student will have the teaching material in the Virtual Classroom of the subject. CB7. CB10. CT1. CG5. EC1. CE4.
2. Interactive classes: face-to-face classes in which the teacher will carry out exercises. The student will have the material deposited in the subject's Virtual Classroom, so that the teacher and the students interact in the resolution. CG5. CB7. CB10. CT1. CT2. CT3. CT5. CT6. CT9. CT10. CT11. CT12. EC1. CE4.
3. This work will be supplemented as personal work with the resolution of exercises autonomously. CB7. CB10. CG5. CT1. CT2. CT3. CT5. CT6. CT9. CT10. CT11. CT12. EC1. CE4.
4. Tutorials: intended to discuss, comment, clarify or resolve doubts or questions related to the development of the subject.
Participation in classroom activities: 10% of the final grade.
Assignments: 30% of the final grade
Exercises: 30% of the final grade
Final written exam: 30% of the final grade.
Written tests: CE1, CE4, CT1, CT2, CT5, CT10, CT11, CT12, CB7. CG5
Assignments and exercises delivered: CE1, CE4, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT5, CT6, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CB7, CB10, CG5.
Participation in the classroom: CT1, CT2
The work and the other activities carried out must be delivered within the established deadlines and will only be valid during the academic year.
To pass the subject, both of the following requirements must be met:
- obtain a minimum grade of 3 points out of 10 in the exam.
- the overall grade obtained as a weighting of the exam, assignments and exercises is at least 5 points out of 10.
If the student did not pass the subject in the first evaluation period, he must take the final exam of the second period and the grades obtained from the exercises and assignments will be retained. Keeping the same proportion of each test.
The evaluation system will be exactly the same regardless of the type of teaching used (face-to-face or virtual).
If face-to-face exams are not allowed, the final exam will be online.
For the cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions contained in the "Regulations for the Evaluation of the Academic Performance of Students and Review of Qualifications" will apply.
Students who have been granted a dispensation to attend class, according to Instruction 1/2017 of the General Secretariat, will be able to hand in all the tasks and activities proposed throughout the course, as they will be available on the Virtual Campus.
In-person work in the classroom:
Master classes: 9 h
Interactive classes: 12 h
Tutorials: 3 h
Evaluation activities: 3 h
Student's personal work.
Reading and preparation of topics: 22 h
Performing exercises: 10 h
Preparation of course work: 10 h
Preparation of evaluation tests: 6 h
Total: 75 hours
Regular attendance at both theoretical and practical classes and use of the virtual campus.
-Attendance and participation in class.
-Regular dedication to the theoretical study and realization of exercises and questions proposed.
-Use of the virtual campus for performing the test and for the resolution of doubts and study of the subject.
-Use of the tutorials for the consultation of doubts arising from the study of matter as needed.
The language used will be Galician.
Students enrolled in the subject will have continuous in-person attention during tutorial hours in offices numbers 12 and 14 of pavilion 2, upper 2nd floor. In addition, attention will be provided through the Virtual Campus, MSTeams and the teachers' email:
manuelramiro.rodriguez [at] usc.es (manuelramiro[dot]rodriguez[at]usc[dot]es)
mdolores.fernandez [at] usc.es (mdolores[dot]fernandez[at]usc[dot]es)
Subject in extinction in the 2024/25 academic year, without teaching but with full right to evaluation with the system specified for repeating students.
Manuel Ramiro Rodriguez Rodriguez
- Department
- Agroforestry Engineering
- Area
- Agroforestry Engineering
- manuelramiro.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
María Dolores Fernández Rodríguez
- Department
- Agroforestry Engineering
- Area
- Agroforestry Engineering
- mdolores.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer