Topics

AREA 1: ENERGETIC INSTALLATIONS

1.-THERMIC MACHINES:
• Mass and Energy transfer.
• Thermic engineering
• Fluid mechanics.
• Vapour turbines.
• Gas turbines.
• Compressors.
• Industrial Heat and Cold.
• Heat transmission.
• Thermodynamics.
• Combustion and Combustibles.
• Heat exchangers.
• Boilers, mass and energy transfer.
• Numeric Simulation in thermic equipments.
• Fuel batteries.
• Energy storage.
• Teaching in thermic engineering.

2.- ENERGETIC SYSTEMS:
• Plants producing energy.
• Thermic coal centrals.
• Combined cycle centrals.
• Nuclear and radioactive installations.
• Radiological protection.
• Combustion energetic systems.
• Nuclear techniques
• Advanced energy generation and and integratedcleaning systems.
• Cogeneration and refrigeration plants.
• Thermiphysical fundaments of the energetic installations.
• Refrigeration systems.

3.- ENERGETIC EFICIENCY AND ENERGY SAVING:
• Energetic audits.
• Energetic qualification in dwellings.
• Energetic politics.
• Energetic efficiency.
• Thermoeconomic optimization of energy generation plants.

AREA 2: RENEWABLE ENERGIES

1.- SOLAR ENERGY:
• Solar architecture. Solar buildings.
• Technology of the Solar- thermal collectors.
• Photovoltaic technologies.
• Solar systems and its applications. Thermal applications of the solar energy.
• Photovoltaic technologies.
• Solar systems and its applications. Thermal applications of the solar energy.
• Photovoltaic Systems. Stand-alone Photovoltaic Systems. Grid-connected Systems.
• Applications in farming. Water pumping.
• Solar radiation. Solar radiation maps.
• Regulatory frame of Solar energy.

2.- BIOMASS:
• Available resources.
• Biomass exploitation for energetic uses.
• Pyrolisis and gasification.
• Combustion processes.
• Optimisation of the main parameters.
• Modelisation of energetic systems for biomass exploitation.
• Systems for the collecting, transport, storage and use of biomass.
• Pre-treatment and drying systems.
• Biofuels for energetic plants and transport.
• Studies about the energetic exploitation of the Biomass
• Evaluation of the energetic potential of the biomass.
• Design and calculations refered to the installations.
• Current situation and perspectives.
• Thermogravimetric analysis of the energetic conversion processes.
• Thermic conversion.
• Energetic conversion technologies.
• Removal of residues and its energetic exploitation.
• Absortion systems by energetic installations of biomass.
• Generation of H2 by biomass conversion processes.
• Energetic cultivations.
• Agroforestall residues.
• Thermic and electric production.

3.- EOLIC ENERGY:
• Technology and design of aerogenerators.
• Energetic considetarions.
• Eolic parks: viability, project and exploitation.
• Current situation and perspectives.
• Incentives for eolic energy.
• Potential of eolic energy (production of electric energy, water pumping, H2 Production, fuel batteries).
• Software tools for the Determination of the eolic potential and the gestion of projects.
• Environmental and economical perspective of eolic energy.
• Design, construction and maintenance of eolic parks.
• Integral gestión of eolic parks.
• New technologies.

4.- MINIHIDRAULIC ENERGY:
• Minihidraulic centrals.
• Technologies.
• Minihidraulic potential.
• Perspectives of future.
• Normatives.
• Analysis of the vibrations in minihidraulic devices.
• Hidraulic microturbines.
• Project of installations.
• Connection systems.
• Regulation and control systems.
• Legal trámites for the implantation of minihidraulic systems.
• Study and implantation of the main parameters (flow, available salto and power).
• Study of the viability of minihidraulic installations and costes control.
• Maintenance and control.

AREA 3: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
• Environment and natural resources.
• Environmental impact of the energetic conversion systems.
• Actions for the conservation and recovery of the environment.
• Biomassic residues. Environmental Impact and recycling.
• Systems for the treatment of solid, liquid and gaseous efluents.
• Eolic energy. Environmental impact.
• Environmental noise.
• Environmental gestion systems.
• Evaluation of the environmental impact of the energetic systems.
• Normative.
• European Agency of Environment.
• Environment and sostenible development.
• Current situation and perspective.
• Aportación of Renewable Energies.
• Emissions of gases which cause greenhouse effect.
• Environmental evaluation of renewable energies.
• Biogas recovery in municipal solid waste.
• Treatment of residues and energetic valoration.
• Environmental engineering and sustainable development.
• Integrated ecosystems management.
• Environmental restoration and ecological engineering.
• Landscape degradation and restoration.
• Ground water remediation.
• Soil decontamination.
• Environmental sustainability.
• Environmental systems approach.
• Clean technologies.
• Adsorption.
• Advanced Oxidation Processes.
• Removal of pollutants.
• Health and the Environment.
• Biodegradation of hazardous substances.
• Indoor air pollution.
• Water resources and river basin management.
• Regulatory practice, water quality objectives standard setting, water quality classification.
• Ground water management.
• Water and Wastewater treatment.
• Nutrients removal.
• Suspended and fixed film biological processes.
• Anaerobic treatment.
• Sludge treatment and reuse.
• Industrial wastewater treatment.

AREA 4: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. HUMAN ECOLOGY

AREA 5: MATERIALS FOR ENERGY. CLEAN MATERIALS
• Surfaces and interfaces in materials and science and phisics/chemistry applied to solid state, structure and reactivity.
• Nanomaterials, nanotubes, fullerens and nanostructures materials.
• Coatings and advanced materials.
• Engineering of surfaces and interface for devices and systems.
• Thermodynamics of applied surface: contact angles and surface energy.
• Superficial properties of colloidal systems.
• Superficial images techniques.
• Applied microscopy.
• Surfaces of biomaterials and Superficial interactions Cell-proteins.
• Computational phisics-chemistry of surfaces and particles.
• Modelization of the interaction nanostructure- surface.
• Reply-surfaces (surfaces which reply to light, potential, pH and similar stimulus).

AREA 6: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGETIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• Design of product engineering (prototypes, industrial design, ergonomics, reliability, total quality, industrial normalization (CAD, CAM, CAE, CAI, ICAD).
• Project science and methodology (education, design process).
• Project organization and direction (project control and planning, project direction, contracts).
• Informatics engineering projects, telecommunications and multimedia (telematics, radiocomunication, television, telephony, CASE tools, languages).
• Construction and urban planning projects ( urban and industrial planning and town planning, urbanism).
• Techniques for construction, transit.
• Prevention, safety and ergonomics (reliability, industrial hygiene, looses prevention). • Professional activity (free exercise, professional deontology).
• Environment and natural resources (environmental impact, actions for conservation,recovery of the environment).
• Topography and cartography (digital modelization of the ground, digital ortophotographies, treatment of satellite images, ect.).
• Geographic information systems.
• Infography, computational geometry, graphic modelization, multimedia, virtual reality (animation and simulation).

AREA 7: COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
• Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Bio-Inspired Fluid Mechanics
• Cavitation and Multiphase Flow Forum
• Convective Heat Transfer in Single Phase Flow
• Drop Formation and Spray Dynamics
• Environmental and biological flows
• Flows in porous media
• Fluid Flows in Tissues and Biomedical Devices
• Fluid Machinery
• Fluid Power
• Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow-Induced Noise in Industrial Applications
• Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows
• Heat and Mass Transfer
• Industrial and Environmental Applications of Fluid Mechanics
• Reacting flows and combustion