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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 in to 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 behaviors. 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?Course Content:- Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies- The Power System- Buildings, Industrial, Transportation, and Agricultural Energy Demands- Energy Analysis and Energy EconomicsLearning Outcomes:- Gain a qualitative and quantitative understanding for Energy Conversion Technologies and Energy Storage Technologies- Use commercial software packages for energy and energy systems modelling (EES & LEAP energy systems)- Perform parametric thermodynamic modelling of a thermal power plant- Understand energy as a system, from supply to demand, and perform systems level modelling for an energy problem- Develop the tools and knowledge to think critically through energy claims, their feasibility, and fit
Subject to approval of the Head of Department. RP: Bachelors degree in Engineering or equivalent
ENME405, ENGR404
Bachelors degree in Engineering or equivalent
Mathieu Sellier
Daniel Bishop
David J.C. MacKay; Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air ; UIT Cambridge, 2009.
John Andrews and Nick Jelley; Energy Science; Principles, Technologies, and Impacts ; Third Edition; OUP Higher Education Division, 2017.
Vaclav Smil; Energy and Civilization: A History ; MIT Print, 2018.
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Domestic fee $1,114.00
International Postgraduate fees
* 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.
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