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Course code: AGS10056o16
Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Fundamentals of agro-energy I
Major: (Agrobiznes)
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Inż. Leszek Kordas, dr Anna Wondołowska- Grabowska
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge Student has theoretical knowledge of soil creation processes and practical skills to make a plan and do tillage in separate energy crops depending on soil and weather conditions. Student gets to know relations between doing individual tillage practices and soil properties and learns how to form them depending on crop requirements. Student collects information on rules of proper tillage and crop succession as well as planning crop rotations. Skills Student understands phenomena between soil factors, crop and environment. Student organizes and conduct studies in team. Student appreciates the need for self-improvement and the necessity of trainings. Student assesses and explains the impact of varying tillage on quality and quantity of yields. Student obeys rules of industrial safety during tillage. Student is responsible for equipment .

Competences: Student appreciates the need for self-improvement and the necessity of trainings in professional, personal and social competences. Student is aware of being professional during identification and making solutions in work, how to obey the rules of professional ethics and respect for the good of public, student is able to work in team.

Prerequisites: botany, chemistry, selected elements of environmental protection

Course content: The entirety of knowledge on the development of Energy crops production in Poland and in the world. The basic data on methods and the volume of production in Poland and in the world as well as the predictions of its development. The basic terminology for energy crops production and its technology, unique values, conditions and meaning. The review of basic plant species grown as energy crops in Poland.

Recommended literature: Borkowska H. 2004. Ślazowiec (Sida hermaphrodita Rusby) jako roślina energetyczna. Materiały Konferencji „Dni Ślazowca 2004”. Bystra. Grzybek A. 2001b. Biopaliwa płynne. „Czysta Energia” 3, s. 23–24b. Guzek K. Pisarek M. 2002. Wykorzystanie biomasy na cele energetyczne w Polsce. „Czysta Energia” 2(6), s. 6–7. Kuś J. 2002. Możliwość zwiększenia areału uprawy rzepaku ozimego w różnych rejonach Polski. „Wieś Jutra” 8 Majtkowski W. 2005. Roślinne ciepło. „Polskie Ciepło i Energia” 7(7), s. 31–34. Matuszek K. 2005. W małych kotłowniach. „Aeroenergetyka” 2, s. 20. Roszkowski A. 2003 Biopaliwa a ekologia, estry oleju rzepakowego. „Technika Rolnicza” 4, s. 28–30. Szczukowski S., Tworkowski J. 2003. Produkcja wieloletnich roślin energetycznych w regionie Warmii i Mazur – stan aktualny i perspektywy. „Postępy Nauk Rolniczych” (3)303, s. 75–84.

Assessment methods: grade obtained at classes (50%) + grade obtained at lectures (50%)

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