Schedule of Lectures for MAE 118B: Energy Issues and 21st
Century Energy Technologies Winter
2008
Professor G.R. Tynan, UCSD MAE DEPARTMENT
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Week |
Topic Description |
NOTES & TEXT |
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1 |
Introduction to Class,
Policies, Expectations; Summary of Global Energy
Status Quo HQL & Near-to-Medium
Term Trends Physics of Molecular IR
Absorption; Linking Absorption and
Greenhouse Gas Molecular Concentration: |
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2 |
Global Climate Change Physics: 0-D Radiation Balance for Coupled
Earth-Atmosphere System ; Feedback Loops & Open Issues Carbon Cycle Basics Integrating Heat Balance,
C Balance, Energy Demand Models; Estimating Future Net C-free Energy Needs |
CUSHMAN-ROISIN 1994 |
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3 |
HOLIDAY Summary of Potential
Climate Neutral Energy Sources and Technologies Energy Return on Energy
Investment |
S&S |
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4 |
Geothermal Energy –
I : Steady State Analysis Geothermal Energy –
II: Heat Mining Overview of Renewable
Technologies; The Basics of
Semiconductors Intrinsic Efficiency Estimates |
S&S GREEN-1982 Chapter 2 S&S Chapter 12.1-12.4 |
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5 |
Governing Equations for PV
Cells Estimating Charge Carrier
Densities P-N Junction – The
Ideal Diode P-N Junction as Simple Solar Cell-Illuminated Diode Response; |
S&S Chapter 12.5-12.7 GREEN-1982 Chapter 3-4 |
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6 |
Macroscopic Performance of
Solar PV Cells and Linkage to Microscopic Processes Emerging Solar PV: Multijunction and Organic Film
Designs EROEI Estimates of Solar PV Current Capacity, Market Growth Rate Data, and Ultimate
Market Penetration MIDTERM |
S&S Ch. 12.7 |
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7 |
HOLIDAY NO LECTURE – TRAVEL Fluid Mechanics and Technology of Wind Power; Resource Estimates & Potential Net Contribution; |
S&S |
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8 |
NO LECTURE – ILLNESS Integration of Wind Power
and Solar PV into Grid Systems-Issues and Implications Energy Storage Solar Thermal Power: Potential for Steady State Solar
Energy MAKEUP: Overview of Biofuels: System Approach and Analysis; |
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9 |
Biofuels: Net Energy Balance; Net Climate
change Impact Fuel Cells-Overview and
Types Open Issues for Hydrogen
Economy Introduction to the Fischer-Pry Replacement Model for Technological Innovation |
REFERENCE-Climate Change Impact |
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10 |
Modeling Market
Penetration: Application to
Solar PV, Wind Energy, and Impact on C-emission Trajectories Transitioning to a
Sustainable Energy Economy Epilog: On the
Nature of Growth: Hubbert Wrap-Up |
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OPTIONAL MATERIALS
& TOPICS |
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Large-scale C
Sequestration-System Approach C-sequestration in Coal
Fired Power Plants |
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Modeling Market Penetration of New Technologies |
NOTES |
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Key: Text and Reference Materials Abbreviations are as
follows:
[S&S] Energy Studies,
2nd 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.
UCSD S &
E TK2960 .G73