Sustainable Energy Choices – Technologies and Economics

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Integrates quantitative methods of engineering analysis and life-cycle/technoeconomic assessment to make informed energy choices in a contemporary sustainability context. Fundamental principles of thermodynamics, transport, and reaction kinetics applied to representative energy supply and end-use technologies. Topics include resource assessment, energy extraction/capture, conversion, distribution, storage, consumption, and end use, environmental, social, and economic consequences, local to global scales. This course will prepare students to employ engineering and economic tools and techniques to analyze large and small energy projects and make effective recommendations for selecting energy technology options. The course will also cover energy systems, markets, innovation, and policy, with a focus on the aspects required to support comprehensive, quantitative energy project analysis.