Module Code - Title:
CG4007
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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PROCESSES
Year Last Offered:
2023/4
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Provision of a process engineering module to give a deeper and wider knowledge in energy processes, with emphasis on sustainability and renewability.
Syllabus:
Overview of energy conversion/generation process fundamentals starting with combustion, elements of energy balance including heats of combustion, component balances, calorific values, excess air, efficiency and Carnot efficiency, and engineering solutions to maximize efficiency.
This will lead to existing ideas for efficient energy generation (advanced generation) represented by Combined heat and power and Combined gas generation extended further to chemical energy generation represented by Fuel cells, Hydrogen production and Fuel re-synthesis. The novel energy conversion/generation ideas will be extended further to advanced nuclear power generation, represented by pebble-bed nuclear reactor. The knowledge of energy generation fundamentals will be enriched with the engineering principles of renewable energy generation, based on Solar, Geothermal, Biogas, Biomass, Wind and Ocean sources.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
1. Introduce the basic energy conversion/generation processes emphasising their sustainability
2. Examine and evaluate energy efficiency of industrial processes and introduce different ways of efficiency evaluation
3. Outline basic concepts of energy efficiency improvement and maximisation
4. Develop understanding and skills for conversion/generation of renewable energy based on Solar, Geothermal, Biogas, Biomass, Wind and Ocean sources.
5. Examine novel energy conversion/generation ideas.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
N/A
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module will be taught via formal lectures, tutorial classes and mini-design projects. The students will experience individual and group learning on several areas of importance to industrially relevant sustainable energy process.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Aldo Vieira da Rosa (2005)
Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes
, Elsevier
Other Relevant Texts:
Gordon Aubrecht (2006)
Energy, Physical, Environmental, and Social Impact
, Pearson
David Coley (2008)
Energy and Climate Change
, John Wilwy & Sons
Bent Sorensen (2004)
Renewable Energy
, Elsevier
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BECBENUFA - CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING
BSPICHUFA - PHARMACEUTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY
Semester - Year to be First Offered:
Module Leader:
Bar.MosevitzkyLis@ul.ie