Schedule of Lectures for MAE 118A: Introduction to Energy Systems

Professor G.R. Tynan, UCSD MAE DEPARTMENT

Week	Topic Description	Homeworks & Quizes	TEXT READINGS & SUPPORTING MAT’L
1	Introduction to Class, Policies, Expectations; Fundamental Definitions Why Care About Energy? A Walk Along Dollar Street HQL & Access to Energy Longer Term View: The Velhurts-Pearl Population Model Longer Term View: Approaching a Steady-state Human Population The Energy Status Quo: Primary and Secondary Energy Sources Who Uses Energy? In What Form is this Energy Stored? What conversion technologies are used? What is the application of the energy? How much energy is used?		Tynan Ch 1 & 2 F&G Ch 2 & 3 Annual Energy Outlook-2009, Pasternack-2000 GapMinder: Statistics Based World View GapMinder – CO2 Emissions & Energy Lecture: The 21st Century Energy Challenge
2	Thermodynamics: Energy, Power, and Work First Law, Second Law Enthalpy, Free Energy Heat Transfer & Heat Exchange Combustion of Fossil Fuels: FHV, Combustion by-products Ideal Heat Engines: Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle, Otto cycle, Bratton cycle, combined cycle Electrochemical devices: Fuel cells and batteries Synthetic Fuels EROEI
3	Fossil Fuel Power Plants - I Fossil Fuel Power Plants – II Electrical Energy Generation, Transmission, Demand Cycle and Storage – I
4	Electrical Energy Generation, Transmission, Demand Cycle and Storage – II Ground Transportation –I Ground Transportation – II
5	Industrial, Commercial and Residual Uses Classification and Estimates of Conventional and Unconventional Fossil Fuel Resources Recovery Rate Evolution of a Finite Resource: Logistics Model Application to Fossil Fuels: “Peak Oil, Coal and Gas” Climate Change: Basics of Earth’s Thermal Balance
6	Radiation transport and absorption in the atmosphere A simple model of climate change physics Carbon balance in the atmosphere CO2 emission trajectories, carbon balance, and future energy demand
7	Estimates of Future Net C-free Energy Needs Summary of Potential Climate Neutral Energy Sources and Conversion Technologies: What scales and what doesn’t? HOLIDAY Geothermal Energy : Heat Mining
8	Solar Thermal Solar PV – I Solar PV – II Estimates of solar resource
9	Theoretical and real efficiency of Wind Turbines; Intermittency of power generation Maximum power extraction in large turbine arrays: turbulent boundary layer analysis Estimates of maximum wind resource Integration of Wind Power and Solar PV into Grid Systems-Issues and Implications Biofuels: A systems overview
10	Introduction to the Fischer-Pry Replacement Model for Technological Innovation Historical and Projected Market Penetration of Primary Sources: Application to Solar PV, Wind Energy, and Impact on C-emission Trajectories The Current Energy Transition Epilog: The Nature of Growth
	OPTIONAL MATERIALS & TOPICS
	Large-scale C Sequestration-System Approach C-sequestration in Coal Fired Power Plants The Hydrogen Economy Nuclear Energy

Key: Text and Reference Materials Abbreviations are as follows:

[S&S] Energy Studies, 2^nd edition, by Shephard and Shephard, published by Imperial College Press

[AEO-2006] US Energy Information Agency Annual Energy Outlook – 2006 (see class website)

[IEO-2004] International Energy Outlook – 2004 (see class website)

[NOTES] Supplemental Lecture Notes Posted to the Class website

[Hoffert-1998] Energy Implications for Future Atmospheric CO2 Stablization, Hoffert Nature 1998 (see class website)

[Hoffert-2002] Energy for a Greenhouse Planet, Hoffert, Science 2002 (see class website)

[Pasternack-2000] Global Energy Futures and Human Development

[Schimel 1998] The Carbon Equation, Schimel, Nature 393, 208 (1998)

[Dresselhaus-2004] Basic Research Needs for a Hydrogen Economy, ed. By Dresselhaus et al 2004, US DOE (see class website)

Some of the lecture notes have been developed based upon the following books which are on 3 hour reserve at the UCSD S&E Library:

[Cushman-Roisin 1994]

Cushman-Roisin, Benoit, Introduction to geophysical fluid dynamics / Benoit Cushman-Roisin , Prentice Hall, c1994

SIO Flr 3 QC809.F5 C87 1994

[Green-1982]

Green, Martin A. ,Solar cells : operating principles, technology, and system applications, Prentice-Hall, c1982.

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