MAE 118B Lecture Notes
Winter 2008
Last updated 6 March 2008
Overview
The 21st Century Energy
Challenge-Tynan.pdf
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
Summary
of Net Carbon Free 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