ENME405-22S2 (C) Semester Two 2022

Energy Systems Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 July 2022
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 31 July 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 2 October 2022

Description

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 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?

Prerequisites

ENME305 or ENME315

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

Mathieu Sellier

Lecturer

Daniel Bishop

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 1 22 Aug 2022 20%
Test OOH 24 Aug 2022 20%
Assignment 2 10 Oct 2022 20%
In Class Presentation 10/10/2022-21/10/2022 10 Oct 2022 10%
Final Exam 30%

Notes

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).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,224.00

International fee $5,716.00

* 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 .

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