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Introduction - I 2/15 Mechanical Engineering ME462/562 Sustainable Energy: an Exergy Analysis
About the instructor
- Prof. Andrea Mammoli
ME 562: Sustainable Energy an Exergy Analysis Spring 2014 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
ME 562: Sustainable Energy an Exergy Analysis Spring 2014 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
ME 562: Sustainable Energy an Exergy Analysis Spring 2014 Mechanical Engineering ME462/562 Sustainable Energy: an Exergy Analysis About the instructor Prof. Andrea Mammoli Offjce: ME436A (4th fmoor, southwest corner of ME building) T:
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Course syllabus – subject to change
9. Renewable energy systems
- 10. Steam power plants
- 11. Cogeneration and district
energy systems
- 12. Fuel cells
- 13. Exergoeconomics of thermal
systems
- 14. Exergy analysis of countries,
regions and economic sectors
- 15. Exergetic life cycle assessment
- 16. Exergy and industrial ecology
- 0. Introduction and motivation
- 1. Thermodynamics review
- 2. Exergy vs. energy analysis
- 3. Exergy, environment &
sustainability
- 4. Exergy in policy development &
education
- 5. Industrial applications
- 6. Evaporative processes
- 7. Heat pumps
- 8. Thermal storage systems
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Main reference book
Exergy: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. Ibrahim Dincer & Mark Rosen. Second Edition, 2013 Elsevier Not required – the class will primarily be based on scientifjc papers obtainable from UNM libraries
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Other references
Kreith, F. and Kreider, J. Principles of Sustainable
- Energy. CRC Press 2011
MacKay, D. Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air. UIT Cambridge UK 2009. Download free pdf at http://www.withouthotair.co m/ or buy paper copy
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Assessment
- Homework 10%
- Projects 50%
- Midterm test 15%
- Final test 25%
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Energy and economy
- The human development
index (HDI) measures standard of living
- HDI goes up with energy
consumption, but with diminishing returns
- > 50 GJ/year/capita of
energy use produces a good standard of living
- Energy consumption of
human body at rest: 100W
- r 3.15 GJ / year
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HDI around the world
http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/map/
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Energy and GDP
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Energy and life metrics
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The fjnite nature of fossil reserves
- Underlying global demand for energy by
2050 could triple from its 2000 level if emerging economies follow historical patterns of development.
- Ordinary rates of supply growth --
taking into account technological, geological, competitive, fjnancial and political realities -- could naturally boost energy production by about 50%.
- This gap – this Zone of Uncertainty – will
have to be bridged by some combination of extraordinary demand moderation and extraordinary production acceleration. So, we must ask: Is this a Zone of Extraordinary Opportunity or Extraordinary Misery?
http://www.shell.com/home/content/future_energy/scenarios/
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Climate change and energy use
Energy is not the
- nly GHG emitter,
but certainly it is the biggest.
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The macro energy budget
Total 99.75 quads (1015 Btu) or 29.2 x 1012 kWh
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A micro energy budget
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Richard Feynman on energy:
There is a fact, or if you wish, a law governing all natural phenomena that are known to date. There is no known exception to this law – it is exact so far as we know. The law is called the conservation of energy. It states that there is a certain quantity, which we call “energy,” that does not change in the manifold changes that nature undergoes. That is a most abstract idea, because it is a mathematical principle; it says there is a numerical quantity which does not change when something happens. It is not a description of a mechanism, or anything concrete; it is a strange fact that when we calculate some number and when we fjnish watching nature go through her tricks and calculate the number again, it is the same. It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy “is.” We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a defjnite amount. It is not that way. It is an abstract thing in that it does not tell us the mechanism or the reason for the various formulas.