Energy & the Environment

Catalog description

The application of thermodynamics, mass balances and engineering principles to energy production, thermal pollution, air quality, climate change, resource recovery and sustainability. Specific topics include energy consumption; thermodynamics of energy production and energy recovery, air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions, the Clean Air Act and air quality standards, atmospheric transport of pollutants, the global energy balance, CO2 emissions and climate change, alternative energy supplies, energy conservation and resource recovery. Three lectures. Fall. Prerequisite: CHEM 102 , ENGS 204 with a minimum of C grade. Three credits, Fall.