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Energy resources, conversion and management. Energy conservation in industrial, commercial and residential sectors. Advanced power cycles, energy analysis, thermal system modelling. Fuels and combustion, environmental aspects.
Energy is the often-invisible current driving the success and downfall of civilizations since antiquity. Modern man has tapped into the earth’s vast energy stores (coal, oil, natural gas, and radioactive substances). The explosion in available energy freed us from the traditional and renewable modes of being. This has caused massive changes to ripple through the world, in scale, form, and nature of activities. Now we look forward to an uncertain future constrained by environmental challenges, resource security and energy availability. Moving into this future, an understanding of the complexity of energy systems is essential for the Engineer who will be designing ‘things’ that need to work in this uncertain operating environment and for those who want to guide the adaption to a predominantly renewable system.This course aims to give students an appreciation for the fullness of Energy Systems (from resource to use and waste), and to equip them with the tools (knowledge, calculations, computational analysis and methods of analysis) to quantify the effects of changes to technologies or behaviours. At the completion of this course, students should be able to answer:- Why doesn’t New Zealand have a 100% renewable power system?- What is the net effect of a transition to electric vehicles?- Does a hydrogen-economy make sense?- What is the effect of insulating houses on peak power loads?
Washington Accord (V4) Summary of Graduate Attributes attained in this course: WA1 – Engineering Knowledge WA2 – Problem Analysis WA3 – Design/Development of Solutions WA4 – Investigation WA5 – Tool Usage WA6 – The Engineer and the World WA11 – Lifelong LearningCourse topics with Learning Outcomes (and Washington Accord (WA) and UC Graduate Attributes) identified.1. Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies 1.1. Gain a qualitative and quantitative understanding for Energy Conversion Technologies and Energy Storage Technologies (WA1, WA2, WA6, WA7)2. The Power System 2.1. Perform parametric thermodynamic modelling of a thermal power plant (WA4, WA5) (EIE4) 2.2. Understand energy as a system, from supply to demand, and perform systems level modelling for an energy problem (WA4, WA5) (EIE4)3. Buildings, Industrial, Transportation, and Agricultural Energy Demands 3.1. Use commercial software packages (EES (Engineering Equation Solver)) and make be-spoke models for energy and energy systems modelling (WA3, WA5, WA7) (EIE2, EIE4)4. Energy Analysis and Energy Economics 4.1. Develop the tools and knowledge to think critically through energy claims, their feasibility, and fit (WA2, WA4, WA6, WA12) (EIE3, EIE5, CE3)
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Engaged with the community
Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
ENME305 or ENME315
ENCN423 and ENGR404
David Denkenberger
For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).
Domestic fee $1,258.00
International fee $5,844.00
* 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 Mechanical Engineering .