Renewable Energy and Energy Sustainability: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

The topics of various types of renewable energies, energy conversion, utilization and storage technologies, such as wind, solar, biomass, fuel cells and hybrid systems. For each source, the physical and technological principles are explained and the economics, environmental impacts and future prospects are examined. The course explores the main factors likely to influence the long-term evolution of the world's energy systems and the technologies and policies that could be adopted to create more sustainable energy systems. Prerequisites: CHEG 3311 or CHEG 3113.