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Electrical energy storages and electric vehicles

Individual course

Core content:

  • Introduction to energy storage: why storage of electricity and energy in general is an important topic for the future?
  • Overview of battery technology: primary and secondary batteries, basic battery characteristics, conventional secondary battery technologies (lead-acid, Ni-MH etc.), introduction to lithium-ion technology.
  • Lithium-ion battery technology for electrical engineers: operation principle and main components of a lithium-ion cell, positive electrode materials, negative electrode materials, other components like electrolytes and separators, safety aspects, lithium-ion battery systems, battery management systems, balancing systems.
  • Overview of other energy storage types: super capacitors (double-layer capacitors), superconducting magnet energy storages (SMES), flywheels, hydrogen + fuel cells.
  • Introduction of electric vehicles: what are EVs, different types of EVs, the main benefits of EVs and their motivation, the main barriers and obstacles of EVs.
  • State-of-the-art EV technologies: charging technologies for passenger cars, buses, other types of vehicles, battery technology in EVs, what kind of technological solutions are used in EVs and why.
  • EVs in power systems and smart grids: Charging load of EVs in distribution networks, EVs as controllable loads and electricity storages for the needs of the electrical energy system.

Students having taken the course are expected to have a comprehensive holistic understanding of electrical energy storage options, especially battery technology, and the most important foreseeable electricity storage applications, especially electric vehicles. The students will have a good understanding of lithium-ion battery technology.

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Responsible teacher

Tampere University
Joni Markkula

Contact person for applications

FITech Network University
Fanny Qvickström, Student services specialist
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Category:
Energy storages
Topics:
Applications and technologies of energy storages,
Energy markets and business models
Course code:
DEE-54206
Study credits:
5 ECTS
Price:
0 €
Course level:
Teaching period:
19.10.–18.12.2020
Application deadline:
Application period has ended
Host university:
Tampere University
Who can apply:
Adult learner,
Degree student
Teaching method:
Online
Place of contact learning:
Tampere
Teaching language:
English
General prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of electrical energy systems.
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