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Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies

This document provides an overview of a survey course on renewable energy technologies offered in 2010. It includes information on the course schedule, assignments, exams, and topics to be covered over the semester related to various renewable energy sources including biomass, wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and more. It also lists several recommended textbooks and additional interesting books on topics related to energy and renewable technologies.

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Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies

This document provides an overview of a survey course on renewable energy technologies offered in 2010. It includes information on the course schedule, assignments, exams, and topics to be covered over the semester related to various renewable energy sources including biomass, wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and more. It also lists several recommended textbooks and additional interesting books on topics related to energy and renewable technologies.

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Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies

ChE 5551
Tuesday and Thursday
2:30-3:45 pm
2010
Amundson B75

Homework assignments weekly


mass and energy balances and Web searches

Several short papers

Two one-hour exams

Visitors welcome

Friendly to non chemical


Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies
Energy sources and uses
Biomass
Chemical processing
Biological processing
Wind energy
Energy storage and sequestration
Efficiency
Renewable chemicals
Engines and combustion
Fuel cells
Environment
Economics
Tentative Schedule
Sept 7 energy uses
9 energy sources
14 biomass
16 lignocellulose
21 agriculture
23 coal, petroleum, and gas
28 biorefining
30 gasification
Oct 5 pyrolysis
7 ethanol
12 ethanol economics
14 biodiesel
19 catalysis
21 methanol and DME
26 FT alkanes
28 biochemicals
Nov 2 fermentation
4 exam
9 biological processing
11 electricity
16 wind and hydro
18 coal gasification
23 photovoltaics
25 fuel cells
30 climate change
Dec 2 Thanksgiving
7 efficiency
9 energy policy
15 Last day
Suggested Books
Sustainable Energy: Choosing Among Options,
Jefferson W. Tester, Michael Driscol, and Elizabeth M. Drake, 2005
Energy and the Environment, J. A. Fay and D. S. Golomb, Oxford, 2002
Introduction to Energy, E. S. Cassidy and P. Z. Grossman, Cambridge, 1998
Engineering Response to Global Climate Change, R. G. Watts, CRC, 1998.
Bioenergy - Realizing the Potential, S. Silveira
Gasification Technologies: A Primer for Engineers and Scientists, J. Rezaiyan
Green Chemistry, Mike Lancaster
Wind Power in Power Systems, T. Ackerman
Biodiesel: Growing an New Economy, G. Pahl
The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Independence,
W. H. Kemp
Alternative Energy Sources: The Quest for Sustainable Energy,
Paul Kruger, 2006
Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, Aldo V. Da Rosa, 2005
Renewable Energy Resources, 2nd ed., John Twidell and Anthony Weir
Renewable Energy, Godfrey Boyle, ed., 2004
Catalysis for Renewables: From Feedstock to Energy Production,
Gabrielle Centi and Rutger van Santen, ed., 2007
Synthetic Fuels, R. Probstein and R. E. Hicks, 2005
Some Interesting Books:
The Prize, Daniel Yergin
Seven Sisters, Anthony Sampson
The Hype about Hydrogen, Joseph Romm
The Future of Hydrogen, Jeremy Rifkin
Out of Gas: The end of the Age of Oil, David Goodstein
Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World,
Bjorn Lomborg
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore and Albert Gore
Renewable Energy Policy, Paul Komor
The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies,
Richard Heinberg
Long emergency: Surviving the converging Catastrophe in the 21st Century,
James H. Kunstler
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion,
Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, Kevin Phillips
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy,
Matthew R. Simmons
Alcohol Can Be A Gas: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
David Blume, 2007
Beyond Oil, K. F. Deffeyes, 2005
Some Interesting Books:
Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude,
Robert Baer
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story, Kurt Eichenwald
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World, Paul Roberts
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert’s Peak, Kenneth S. Deffeyes
The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel
and Why We will Never Run Out of Oil, Peter Huber
A Thousand Barrels a Second, Peter Tertzakian
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, Jeff Goodell
Energy in World History, Vaclav Smil (1995)
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Coal: A Human History, Barbara Freese (Minnesota author)
Fossil Fools, Joe Shuster (ChE MN graduate)

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