ENGR404-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023

Emerging Energy Technologies and Management

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 October 2023

Description

This course explores various emerging technologies related to the needs for energy, including the supply of renewable energy. This includes topics such as combined heat and power systems, biomass and thermo-chemical processing, wind, geothermal and solar energy processes. This course will also discuss the applications of catalysis in the production of energy carriers, starting at a basic level, and includes sections on adsorption and surface science, catalytic kinetics, evaluation on the modern catalytic processes in oil/gas refinery and studying key characteristics of emerging nanomaterials that enable them to become an effective catalyst in energy applications.

Learning Outcomes

  • After completing this course, the students will understand the present issues and opportunities in energy and energy related sectors. Students are expected to be able to:
  • Understand the energy demand and composition.
  • Understand the environmental concerns and future energy supply issues due to heavily use of
           fossil fuels.
  • Understand the renewable energy resources and related technologies and systems.
  • Analyze energy systems using exergy concept.
  • Understand importance and applications of catalysis in energy conversion and development of
           new technologies.  

    Eventually the students can make choices on energy resources and technologies in the future for increasing energy efficiency and promotion of renewable energy use.

Prerequisites

ENCH291 or subject to approval of the Director of Studies.

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

Shusheng Pang

Lecturer

Alex Yip

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 47%
Oral Presentation 5% In the week of 24 to 28 October
Oral Presentation 11 Aug 2023 5%
Test 14 Aug 2023 20%
Assignment 1 18 Aug 2023 8% Report
Assignment 2 29 Sep 2023 15% Report


Topics include:
• Overview of world energy outlook, and New Zealand energy demands and related
       environmental issues.
• Renewable energy supply and technologies: Wind, Solar, Geothermal.
• Introduction to biomass resources and conversion technologies.
• Energy demands and CO2 emission analysis for transport, diary and wood processing sectors.
• Applications of exergy analysis in energy systems
• Introduction to heterogeneous catalysis.
• Catalysis in the conversion of natural gas.

Notes

Prerequisites: ENGR101

ENCH291 or subject to approval of the Director of Studies.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,164.00

International fee $5,750.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

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