ChE 5480 Energy Sustainability

Fall 2007

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Meeting

6-9 PM Tuesday, Room SEC E111
Instructor (Web link)

Dr. R. G. Mallinson, Office  Room T322 EC, Ph 325-4378
Email  

mallinson@ou.edu
Office Hours

As available and by appointment
Primary Reference

Sustainable Energy: Choosing Among Options
J.W. Tester, Drake, Driscoll, Golay, Peters
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA 2005
Supplemental End of Oil, P. Roberts, Houghton Mifflin Co., NY, 2004

Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil, Norton, NY, 2004
 

 
          
Grading  Two Take Home Exams   20% + 20%
Analysis Project * 20% (Pt. 1= 10, Pt. 2 = 10)
Class Participation and Class Notes**   10%
Weekly Assignments   30%

 
 

**Class notes will be turned in at the end of the semester for review by the instructor

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OUTCOMES

 

"Expert" Weekly Assignments

 

Each student will review information each week and make short ~ five minute reports on activity on their assigned area and their assigned sources (e.g. about 10 minutes per student ~1 hour)  Activity means timely information about the energy developments affecting the future. E.g. new projects, new data, new technology, new policies, etc.

 

Assignments

 

Topic Weekly Assignments

 

The instructor will, according to the schedule, assign a topic to the class to read and analyze.  This should include calculations by the student and the analysis should be critical, e.g. strengths and weaknesses should be discussed.  Each student will turn in their own reports due at noon on Tuesday, before class.  The report will be in the form of a powerpoint presentation with 1. an outline, 2. graphical slides and slides with explanatory text and 3. ending with references, including web links.  any reference documents will be supplied as pdfs.

 

The instructor will review the reports and reports will be selected for presentation by the submitting student.  The selection will be rotated.

The number presented each week will not be fixed.  The presentation will be highly informal and more of a discussion than a formal presentation.

 

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Updated on: 10/05/07

Week

Date

Topic

 

 References

Assignment 

(or supplemental information)

Instructor

 

1

AUG

21

 

 Introduction
metrics, objectives,
information, Units
Siirola Presentation		 none Mallinson

2

AUG

28

 

 Energy forms,
Supply,
Demand,
Potential
Population		   weekly,

cover your region

 Mallinson

3

SEP

4

 

 Energy Policies
Kyoto
Politics
Impacts		     Mallinson

4

SEP

11

 

 Energy Resources, impacts, metrics     class

5

SEP

18

 

 Sustainable Energy Metrics     class

6

SEP

 25

 

 oil resources   your region mallinson,

class

7

OCT

2

 

 biomass availability

progress

  

  your region

class

8

OCT

9

 

 biomass technology I   assigned technology class

9

OCT

16

 

 GROW
Conference

NREL visitor

 Please try to attend as much as possible class at ~7:30 for 1 hour  


Steve Phillips

OCT

23

   Biomass Technology II   assigned technology   class

10

OCT

30

 

 Hydrogen, Solar, Wind, renewable power I   resource and technology Lobban,
class

11

NOV

07

   Sustainable
Water Resource
Utilization		 Wednesday Class  

Sabatini,
Class

12

NOV

13

 

 Outlook for Renewable Energy   public lecture at 5 PM
Beaird lounge, OMU		 Dan Bull

NREL Associate Director

13

NOV

20

   High Carbon Energy
(coal/shale/tar)		     Resasco,

class

14

NOV

27

 

 Hydrogen, Solar, Wind, renewable power I!     Lobban,

class

15

DEC

04

   Meeting Our Energy Needs     David Fleischaker

OK Sec'y of Energy

 

 

No Final

  

 

 

 

JAN

31

 

 

 Outlook for sustainable fossil Energy   probably  public lecture
5 PM
Beaird Lounge, OMU		 NETL Technical Advisor/AIChE
President Elect