MAE 118A
Lecture Notes
Fall 2009
Overview
The 21st Century Energy
Challenge-Tynan.pdf
Fossil fuel recovery and peak oil
Climate
Change
Guest Lecture Greenhouse
Effect-Gille.htm
Blackbody
Radiation and ItÕs Transport Through Gases
Simple
Model of the EarthÕs Power Balance-Tynan.PDF
Simple Model of EarthÕs
Power Balance – Lecture Notes (6 MB PDF)
The Basics of Carbon
Balance and Implications for Near-term C-Emission Contraints
Integrated
Model of Heat Balance, Carbon Balance, and Energy Demand
Overview
of Climate Neutral Energy Technologies
Estimating
Need for and Overview of Climate-Neutral Energy Technologies
Energy Return on Energy
Invested
Geothermal
Solar
PV Energy
Intrinsic Limits on Conversion
Efficiency
Solar PV – Governing Equations for
Solar Cells
Solar PV – Estimating
Charge Carrier Densities
Solar PV – Model
of an Ideal p-n Diode without Illumination
Solar
PV – Illuminated Diode; Performance of Real Cells & Links to
Microscopic Behavior
Wind
Why Wind Turbines Have a Maximum
Operating Wind Speed
Effects
of Intermittent Generation
Effect
of Intermittent Wind and Solar PV Power Generation on Grid Integration
Solar
Thermal – Concentrated
Biofuels
Overview of Biofuels
– System Approach
Net Energy Balance – Shapouri
et al 2004
Net Energy Balance –
Pimentel and Patzek 2005
Fuel
Cells
Fuel Cell Analysis - PEM as an Example
Hydrogen
Economy
H Economy Overview & Research Needs
Nuclear
Energy
Nuclear
Binding Energy and Energy Release
Market
Penetration and Abandonment Models
Application
of Replacement Model to Primary Energy Technologies & Projections for
Renewables