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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Irene Peters; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Weidlich
Event type:
Project
Org-unit: Stadtplanung
Displayed in timetable as:
SP: IP Biw-SP
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Location:
Hamburg
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 25
Grading:
Zusätzliche Informationen zu Terminen:
Das Projekt findet in Präsenz statt. Die Veranstaltung wird zweisprachig durchgeführt.
The project takes place at HCU. The project will be bilingual (germ/eng.)
Beschreibung:
Solar Energy in the City (Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, REAP)
Solar energy – harvested with solar thermal (ST) collectors to produce useful heat, and with photovoltaics (PV) modules to produce electricity – is, next to the wind power, the highest-yielding renewable energy source that there is for humankind to use. Clearly, for the energy transition to succeed, solar energy must be tapped to a much larger extent than at present.
The small scale availability makes PV an attractive technology for cities and urban quarters, but also for rural settings. It can empower rural communities that lack access to the national electric power grid (a common situation in less developed countries), or it can be fed into the urban local distribution grid, which makes it an interesting player in the balancing energy market (the electric energy for balancing in- and outfeed of the power grid).
Solar thermal energy, too, has far more potential than is currently realized. ST collectors can play a role for individual buildings as well as for heating grids (when combined with seasonal storage), as practiced in Scandinavia.
In this project, students can work on many aspects of this topic:
• The potential energy harvest and the associated decarbonization of energy supply
• the decentralized application contexts, empowering disadvantaged communities who have no access to large national electricity grids
• facilitating urban quarters to become actors in the smart (balancing) energy market
• the competition for, and synergies between (rooftop) area utilization by photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, and roof greening
• the architectural challenges and opportunities associated with installing solar thermal collectors and PV modules on buildings and in urban contexts
• the role that PV technology plays for the regional and national economy, and industrial policy issues surrounding it
• last not least, the raw material requirements and life cycle impacts of PV modules and ST collectors.
The project is offered for Civil Engineering (CE) and Urban Planning (UP) students, for whom it earns 10 CP, and for REAP students, for whom it earns 5 CP. The work loads will be configured accordingly. CE and UP students are expected to work in mixed groups. REAP students can work individually, or in small groups, or join the mixed CE and UP groups. This will promote interdisciplinarity and allows students to pursue their own interests (e.g., for REAP students to work on the use of solar energy in their home countries around the globe).
Project language will English and German. We will be pragmatic and intend to take every along who has a serious interest in this course. The language for the project reports can be English or German, depending on the composition of the respective group.
The core meeting time will be Monday afternoon 13:00 to 16:00 hrs. During the first weeks, sessions will be devoted to learning fundamental aspects of the technologies. A small conference early November (online, Monday afternoon) will bring together a number of experts from outside – project planners, urban officials, and more. After that, students work with more independence, with short weekly check-ins.
Kontakt:
ingo.weidlich@hcu-hamburg.de, irene.peters@hcu-hamburg.de
Module:
SP-M-Mod-101 / REAP-M-Mod-304 / REAP-M-Mod-305
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