Environmental Aspects of Energy

General Data
Academic program	ECAM ENGINEERING PROGRAM			:
Type d'EC	Classes
Lectures : 18h00 Total duration : 46h00	Status :	Period : SEMESTER 8	Education language : English

Learning Outcomes
- Understand the environmental constraints (use of natural resources, pollutions, global warming, etc.) related to our current energy consumption. - Bei able to use on practical situations the usual energy performance criteria: efficiency, effectiveness, energy returned on energy invested, carbon footprint, etc. - Be able to understand and to apply a carbon balance to a given system or process.

Content
• Fundamental concepts of energy engineering: primary energy, final energy, embodied energy, lost energy, etc. • Performance criteria used to assess existing systems or processes: efficiency, effectiveness, energy returned on energy invested (EROI), etc. • Definitions and limitations of today's energy resources: peak oil, GHG emissions, etc. • Carbon cycles and balances: why it is important and how to use them. • The energy transition and its numerous challenges.

Content

• Fundamental concepts of energy engineering: primary energy, final energy, embodied energy, lost energy, etc.
• Performance criteria used to assess existing systems or processes: efficiency, effectiveness, energy returned on energy invested (EROI), etc.
• Definitions and limitations of today's energy resources: peak oil, GHG emissions, etc.
• Carbon cycles and balances: why it is important and how to use them.
• The energy transition and its numerous challenges.

Pre-requisites / co-requisites
Chemistry S1, Thermodynamics S2, Fluid Mechanics S3, Heat transfer S5.

Bibliography
• Smil, V. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate, AEI Press, 2010. • Gorelick, S. M., Oil Panic and the Global Crisis – Predictions and Myths, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. • Ghosh, T. K. and Prelas, M. A., Energy Resources and Systems – Volumes 1 & 2, Springer, 2009. • Volk, T., CO2 Rising – The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge, The MIT Press, 2008.

Bibliography

• Smil, V. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate, AEI Press, 2010.
• Gorelick, S. M., Oil Panic and the Global Crisis – Predictions and Myths, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
• Ghosh, T. K. and Prelas, M. A., Energy Resources and Systems – Volumes 1 & 2, Springer, 2009.
• Volk, T., CO2 Rising – The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge, The MIT Press, 2008.

Assessment(s)
N°	Nature	Coefficient	Observable objectives
1	Application of an environmental analysis or carbon balance to a given system or process, with proposal of possible improvements.	1	Written exam