• Semester 2, position 2

This course provides an overview of key topics on energy, from issues of energy security and climate change, global geopolitical processes and their impact on the Serbian economy and the Serbian energy sector, through the development and application of technologies for the use of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency measures, to the review of legislative provisions and strategic documents that regulate the current state and future directions of development of the Serbian energy sector. A comprehensive approach to this issue gives students the opportunity to acquire the knowledge to critically assess the sustainability of different ways of using energy and their impact on the environment. The teaching consists of lectures, preparation of a seminar paper, visits to plants that use renewable energy sources, a test and an oral exam.

Upon successful completion of this course, students should: 1) acquire general knowledge about energy geopolitics and global energy transition and the current state of the energy sector in Serbia; 2) to acquire knowledge about all types and sources of energy, e.i. ways of transforming them from primary to the level of useful energy; 3) to know how to explain the technological processes of energy transformation that are realized in all types of energy plants: thermal, hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, biogas, geothermal and biomass power plants, fossil fuel district heating systems and renewable energy sources or waste, as well as cogeneration and trigeneration plants; 4) to know how to determine which energy efficiency measures should be used and when to use them, as well as to know how much energy and how much financial savings are achieved with them 5) that with a comprehensive overview to critically assess the sustainability of different ways of using energy and the process of their transformation.

1. Types of energy and sources of energy. Law on Energy Conservation. Energy transformation processes. Energy efficiency. Efficiency of process, engines and plants. 2. Global and geopolitical situation in the energy sector. Industrial revolutions. Theories of climactic changes. Energy transition. 3. Energy and ecology. Emissions of carbon dioxide, PM particles and other harmful substances. Decomposition periods of natural and artificial materials. 4. Ways of transformation and use of non-renewable energy sources - principles and way of working. 4.1 Thermal power plants 4.2 Heating plants and district heating systems 4.3 Combined production of electricity and thermal energy, trigeneration 4.4 Transport and industry 5. Ways of using renewable energy. 5.1 Energy of water flows 5.2 Solar energy 5.3 Wind energy (eolian energy) 5.4 Thermal energy of the air and its use with heat pumps 5.5 Hydro and petro-geothermal energy (conversion into electricity, direct heating or heating with heat pumps) 5.6 Biomass (of forest, agricultural and animal origin) 5.7 Biogas production and use technology 6. Waste to energy 7. Nuclear energy 8. The role of green hydrogen in the energy transition 9. Energy sector of Serbia, Energy balance and Energy potentials 10. Serbia and the EU, Energy Community, European Legislation, Negotiating Chapter 15 – Energy 11. Strategic and legislative framework of the Serbian energy sector 12. RES incentive systems, Auctions and tariff systems, 13. Energy management system - industry, public building sector 14. Energy saving measures in households, buildings, industry, public sector 15. Financial engineering

1. Visit to the biogas plant 2. Visit to a solar or wind farm 3. Visit to the Center for training energy managers and energy advisors 4. Visit to the waste cogeneration plant in Viča

No conditions

1. Banjac, M., Ramić, B., Lilić, D., Pantić, A.: Energy in Serbia 2013, Ministry of Mining and Energy, ISSN 2217-8120, p. 92, Belgrade, 2015. 2. Banjac, M., Ramić, B., Kijevčanin, M., Popović, I., Šerbanović, S., Radović, I., Kaluđerović, T., Živković, E.: Energy in Serbia 2010, ISSN: 2217 -8120, Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy of the Republic of Serbia, 2011. 3. Banjac, M., Todorović, M., Kulić, F, Ristanović, M, Galić, R., Đukanović, D, Matejić, M., Brdarević, Lj.,: Handbook for energy managers in the field of building energy, Ministry of Mining and Energy and UNDP Serbia, ISBN 978-86-7728-256-1, p. 451, Belgrade, 2017.

Total assigned hours: 75

New material: 20
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 10

Auditory exercises: 10
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 15
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 5
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 5
Review and grading of the project: 0
Test: 0
Test: 5
Final exam: 5

Activity during lectures: 20
Test/test: 0
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 30
Project: 0
Final exam: 50
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 50

Banjac, M., Ramić, B., Lilić, D., Pantić, A.: Energy in Serbia 2013, Ministry of Mining and Energy, ISSN 2217-8120, p. 92, Belgrade, 2015 (in Serbian); Banjac, M., at al.: Energy in Serbia 2010, ISSN: 2217 -8120, Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy of the Republic of Serbia, 2011 (in Serbian); Banjac, M., at al. Handbook for energy managers in the field of building energy, Ministry of Mining and Energy and UNDP Serbia, ISBN 978-86-7728-256-1, p. 451, Belgrade, 2017 (in Serbian)