# Energy and Power: Production, Distribution, and Society

This course is an introduction to energy and power within a societal context.

## Useful Prerequisites

A general knowledge base in these topics will facilitate learning.
* Calculus
* Electricity and Magnetism
* Physics
* Statistics
* Thermodynamics

## References

* Units and Conversions
* Fluid Property Tables
* Crib Sheet of Commonly Used Equations

## Topics

* Introduction: A Global Energy Balance

### Energy Consumption: Utility and Inequality

* World Portfolio
** Breakdown by Users, Sources, and End Use
** Relationship to GDP
** Trends, Projections, and Scenarios
** International Efforts
* United States Energy Policy
** Energy Portfolio
** The Department of Energy
** History, Policy, and Industry

### Basic Ideas: Exercises and Review

* The Conservation of Energy
** Special Topic: Crackpot Claims and Spotting Violations of the First Law
* Work and Heat in Thermodynamic Analysis
** P-V Diagrams
** T-S Diagrams
** Psychrometrics
** Chemical Energy and Combustion
** Temperature Dependent Chemical Equilibrium
* Circuits: Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors
** DC Circuits
** AC Circuts
* Transformers, Motors, and Turbines
* Distribution of Electric Energy

### Energy Sources: Technology, Cost, and Potential

* Special Topic: Non-Renewable, Renewable, Sustainable
* Fossil
** Coal
** Natural Gas
** Petroleum
* Nuclear
* Solar
** Photovoltaics
** Solar Thermal
* Water
** Hydroelectric
** Ocean Wave
** Ocean Tidal
** Ocean Current
* Biomass
* Wind
* Geothermal

### Energy Storage and Conversion

* Gasification
* Waste to Energy
* Fuel Cells
* Hydrogen
* Micro-Turbines
* Flywheels
* Batteries
* Electricity
* Distributed Generation
* Diesel Generators
* Turbines

### Building Energy Use

* Green Building Design
** Information Technology and Building Energy Management
** HVAC systems
*** Psychrometrics, Human Comfort, and Energy
** Lighting
* Time-Dependent Demand
* Commercial and Residential

### Transportation

* Spark Ignition, Diesel, and Hybrid Vehicles
* Freight and Shipping
* Air Travel

### The Path of Emerging Technologies

Power Cycles and Car Engine Design
* Otto Cycle
* Diesel Cycle

### Power Cycles and Power Plant Design

* Rankine Cycle
** Reheat
* Brayton
* Issues in Efficiency and Cost

### Combustion and Pollution

* Combustion and Chemical Energy
* Kinetics
* Common Pollutants and Concerns
* Regulation

### Economics and Energy Markets

* Limited Natural Resource Economics
** Jevons Paradox
** The Consumption Curve
** Reserves
* Pollution Caps and Trading
* Electricity
** Supply and Demand: Peaks and Valleys
** Grid Capacity and Infrastructure Costs
** Deregulation
** Real-time Pricing
* Developmental Economics and Energy
** Traditional Energy Portfolios
** Human Impacts and Correlations
** The Great Divide: North vs South
* Econometrics and Energy Forecasting

### Sustainability and Energy

* Global Warming
** CO2 Equivalent Sources and Sinks Accounting
** Carbon Sequestration
** Atmospheric Modeling
* Energy Sources and Magnitudes
* Special Topic: Consumption, Capitalism, and Unsustainable Growth

### The Future: Scenarios of Disaster and Opportunity

* Economic and Environmental Forces for Change
* The Role of the Engineer: Ideas with Potential

## Further reading

* Basic Electrical Generation and Distribution
* Power Electronics