Curriculum

Curriculum List

coursePlan

The course offers a reasonably in depth introduction to renewable energy technologies. It sets renewable energy in the wider context and develops a basic qualitative and quantitative toolkit for appraising technologies. It examines each of the major technologies covering aspects such as: Resource, Conversion technologies, Practicalities, Economics and Environmental impacts. Finally it briefly examines how renewables can be integrated effectively within the energy system.
The course provides sufficient depth and coverage to build a comprehensive understanding of renewable energy whilst acting as an introduction to more specialist courses on individual technology areas (e.g. wind energy). The course material requires numeracy and knowledge of basic physics concepts.
The course deals mainly with analysis of energy systems, renewable electricity generation and its role but includes some material on renewable heat; nuclear and conventional power is excluded. The lectures are:
- Sustainable energy: the context
- Hydropower
- Bioenergy
- Onshore and offshore wind
- Wave power
- Tidal power
- Solar energy
- Economics
- Integration of renewables

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Sat - Mon 10am Energy Research Institution - - -

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Sat - Mon 14am Energy Research Institution - - -

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Sat - Mon 12am School of Mechanical Engineering Room #14 - - -
coursePlan

Block 1: Background. Energy sources and media; high level overview of energy use (electricity, transport, domestic, industry); basic economics and public policy.
Block 2: Thermodynamics. Exergy; efficiency; thermodynamic cycles (Rankine, Joule, Brayton) and heat balance.
Block 3: Fossil generation. Conversion technology (combustion boilers; condensers; superheaters; materials); availability; geopolitics; environment.
Block 4: Nuclear generation. Reactor types; fission physics (binding, cross-section etc); environment; waste.
Block 5: Geothermal energy. Technology; thermodynamics; environment.
Block 6: Heat pumps. Principles; ground source; air source; domestic.
Block 7: Electrical/Turbine Islands. Reheat; feedwater; CHP and process steam; passout; transmission; district heating.
Block 8: Fuel cells
Block 9: Economics of energy and Life cycle assessment
Block 10: Energy Storage

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Sun 14am Energy Research Institution Room #3 - - -

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Tue 10am Energy Research Institution Room #1 - - -