From the Laboratory to the Open Digital Resources in Energy Engineering

Convention on Teaching Innovation for the Transition from the Laboratory to Open Digital Educational Resources in Engineering

The Universidad de Burgos (Spain) and the Université Chouaib Doukkali–El Jadida (Morocco) have signed a Convention on Teaching Innovation for the Transition from the Laboratory to Open Digital Educational Resources in Engineering, for the period 2020-2022.

Thermodynamic properties of biofuels: bio-alcohol

Alternative and renewable energy technologies are being sought throughout the world to reduce pollutant emissions and increase the efficiency of energy use. Oxygenate second-generation biofuels fuels lead to a reduction in pollutant emissions. Their thermodynamic and transport properties allow that the facilities for transport, storage and distribution of fuels could be used without modification. Higher alcohols, like propanol and butanol, enhance the octane number, boosting the anti-knock effect in gasoline. Then the compression ratio of the engines can be increased without risk of knocking, leading to higher delivery of power. From the combustion point of view, the production of carbon monoxide and volatile hydrocarbons from the combustion of alcohols is less than the one of gasoline. This chapter of e-book, authored by the Energy Engineering team, covers mixtures of butanol and propanol with hydrocarbons. The properties reviewed are excess volume or density (VE), vapour-liquid equilibrium (VLE), and heat capacity (Cp).

E-learning material in MERLOT

MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a learning object repository devoted to identifying, peer reviewing, organizing and making available existing online learning resources in a wide range of academic disciplines.