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