Tecnologias Energéticas para a Agro-Indústria

The goal of this course is to provide students with knowledge and tools that allow them understand, evaluate and intervene in the selection of energy technologies in the agro-industry sector.
In the end of the course, students should have acquired knowledge, skills and competences that allow:
- Understand power and energy concepts, in a perspective of electric and thermal generation.
- Be able to analyze the energy context to which they belong and the corresponding legislative framework.
- Get familiar with electric and thermal technologies for energy production, storage and recovery, and evaluate application examples in the agro-industrial sector.
- Be able to select previous technologies for specific applications, based on production estimates and technical and economical viability studies.