Energy and Power: Production, Distribution, and Society

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This course is an introduction to energy and power within a societal context.

Contents 1 Useful Prerequisites 2 Reference 3 Topics 3.1 Energy Consumption: Utility and Inequality 3.2 Basic Ideas: Exercises and Review 3.3 Energy Sources: Technology, Cost, and Potential 3.4 Energy Storage and Conversion 3.5 Building Energy Use 3.6 Transportation 3.7 Energy-Intensive Industrial Processes 3.8 The Path of Emerging Technologies 3.9 Power Cycles and Power Plant Design 3.10 Combustion and Pollution 3.11 Economics and Energy Markets 3.12 Sustainability and Energy 3.13 The Future: Scenarios of Disaster and Opportunity 4 Further reading

[edit] Useful Prerequisites

A general knowlege base in these topics will facilitate learning.

• Calculus
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Physics
• Statistics
• Thermodynamics

[edit] Reference

• /Units and Conversions
• /Fluid Property Tables
• /Crib Sheet of Commonly Used Equations

[edit] Topics

• Introduction: A Global Energy Balance

1. • History of energy evolution

[edit] Energy Consumption: Utility and Inequality

1. World Portfolio
   • Breakdown by Users, Sources, and End Use
   • Relationship to GDP
   • Trends, Projections, and Scenarios
   • International Efforts
2. United States Energy Policy
   • Energy Portfolio
   • The Department of Energy
   • History, Policy, and Industry

[edit] Basic Ideas: Exercises and Review

1. The Conservation of Energy
   • Special Topic: Crackpot Claims and Spotting Violations of the First Law
2. Work and Heat in Thermodynamic Analysis
   • P-V Diagrams
   • T-S Diagrams
   • Psychrometrics
   • Chemical Energy and Combustion
   • Temperature Dependent Chemical Equilibrium
3. Circuits: Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors
   • DC Circuits
   • AC Circuts
4. Transformers, Motors, and Turbines
5. Distribution of Electric Energy

[edit] Energy Sources: Technology, Cost, and Potential

1. Special Topic: Non-Renewable, Renewable, Sustainable
2. Fossil
   • Coal
   • Natural Gas
   • Petroleum
3. Nuclear
4. Solar
   • Photovoltaics
   • Solar Thermal
5. Water
   • Hydroelectric
   • Ocean Wave
   • Ocean Tidal
   • Ocean Current
6. Biomass
7. Wind
8. Geothermal

[edit] Energy Storage and Conversion

1. Gasification
2. Waste to Energy
3. Fuel Cells
4. Hydrogen
5. Micro-Turbines
6. Flywheels
7. Batteries
8. Electricity
9. Distributed Generation
10. Diesel Generators
11. Turbines

[edit] Building Energy Use

1. Green Building Design
   • Information Technology and Building Energy Managment
   • HVAC systems
     • Psychrometrics, Human Comfort, and Energy
   • Lighting
2. Time-Dependent Demand
3. Commercial and Residential

[edit] Transportation

1. Spark Ignition, Diesel, and Hybrid Vehicles
2. Freight and Shipping
3. Air Travel

[edit] Energy-Intensive Industrial Processes

[edit] The Path of Emerging Technologies

Power Cycles and Car Engine Design<===

1. Otto Cycle
2. Diesel Cycle

[edit] Power Cycles and Power Plant Design

1. Rankine Cycle
   • Reheat
2. Brayton
3. Issues in Efficiency and Cost

[edit] Combustion and Pollution

1. Combustion and Chemical Energy
2. Kinetics
3. Common Pollutants and Concerns
4. Regulation

[edit] Economics and Energy Markets

1. Limited Natural Resource Economics
   • Jevons Paradox
   • The Consumption Curve
   • Reserves
2. Pollution Caps and Trading
3. Electricity
   • Supply and Demand: Peaks and Valleys
   • Grid Capacity and Infrastructure Costs
   • Deregulation
   • Real-time Pricing
4. Developmental Economics and Energy
   • Traditional Energy Portfolios
   • Human Impacts and Correlations
   • The Great Divide: North vs South
5. Econometrics and Energy Forecasting

[edit] Sustainability and Energy

1. Global Warming
   • CO2 Equivalent Sources and Sinks Accounting
   • Carbon Sequestration
   • Atmospheric Modeling
2. Energy Sources and Magnitudes
3. Special Topic: Consumption, Capitalism, and Unsustainable Growth

[edit] The Future: Scenarios of Disaster and Opportunity

1. Economic and Environmental Forces for Change
2. The Role of the Engineer: Ideas with Potential

[edit] Further reading

• Basic Electrical Generation and Distribution
• Power Electronics