Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies

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Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies
ChE 5551 Tuesday and Thursday 230-345
pm 2009 Amundson B75 Homework assignments
weekly mass and energy balances and Web
searches Several short papers Two hour
exams Visitors welcome Friendly to non chemical
engineers
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Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies
Energy sources and uses Biomass Chemical
processing Biological processing Wind
energy Energy storage and sequestration Efficiency
Renewable chemicals Engines and combustion Fuel
cells Environment Economics
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Tentative Schedule
Sept 8 energy uses 10 energy sources 15 biomass
17 lignocellulose 22 agriculture 24 coal,
petroleum, and gas 29 biorefining Oct 1 gasifi
cation 6 pyrolysis 8 ethanol 13 ethanol
economics 15 biodiesel 20 catalysis 22 methan
ol and DME 27 FT alkanes 29 biochemicals Nov
3 fermentation 5 exam 10 biological
processing 12 electricity 17 wind and
hydro 19 coal gasification 24 photovoltaics
26 photovoltaics 1 fuel cells 3 Thanksgiv
ing Dec 8 efficiency 10 energy
policy 15 Last day
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Engineering Topics
thermodynamics kinetics combustion reactor
engineering catalysis process flow sheets
Subjects will be introduced and equations given
in lecture.
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Field Trips
St Paul District Heating burns wood chips to
supply heat and power Soymor Biodiesel
Plant Albert Lea Little Falls Ethanol uses
wood chips for energy Haubenschild Farmx
Anaerobic Digestor Half day Friday afternoon?
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The Subject of this Course
source process product
coal petroleum biomass wind sun
chemical thermal biological mechanical
heat chemicals electricity fuel
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Suggested Books Sustainable Energy Choosing
Among Options, Jefferson W. Tester, Michael
Driscol, and Elizabeth M. Drake, 2005 Energy and
the Environment, J. A. Fay and D. S. Golomb,
Oxford, 2002 Introduction to Energy, E. S.
Cassidy and P. Z. Grossman, Cambridge,
1998 Engineering Response to Global Climate
Change, R. G. Watts, CRC, 1998. Bioenergy -
Realizing the Potential, S. Silveira Gasification
Technologies A Primer for Engineers and
Scientists, J. Rezaiyan Understanding Renewable
Energy Systems, Wind Power in Power Systems, T.
Ackerman Biodiesel Growing an New Economy, G.
Pahl The Renewable Energy Handbook A Guide to
Rural Independence, W. H. Kemp Alternative
Energy Sources The Quest for Sustainable Energy,
Paul Kruger, 2006 Fundamentals of Renewable
Energy Processes, Aldo V. Da Rosa, 2005 Renewable
Energy Resources, 2nd ed., John Twidell and
Anthony Weir Renewable Energy, Godfrey Boyle,
ed., 1004 Catalysis for Renewables From
Feedstock to Energy Production, Gabrielle Centi
and Rutger van Santen, ed., 2007
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Some Interesting Books The Prize, Daniel
Yergin Seven Sisters, Anthony Sampson The Hype
about Hydrogen, Joseph Romm The Future of
Hydrogen, Jeremy Rifkin Out of Gas The end of
the Age of Oil, David Goodstein Skeptical
Environmentalist Measuring the Real State of
the World, Bjorn Lomborg An Inconvenient Truth,
Al Gore and Albert Gore Renewable Energy Policy,
Paul Komor The Partys Over Oil, War, and the
Fate of Industrial Societies, Richard
Heinberg Long emergency Surviving the converging
Catastrophe in the 21st Century, James H.
Kunstler American Theocracy The Peril and
Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed
Money in the 21st Century, Kevin
Phillips Twilight in the Desert The Coming Saudi
Oil Shock and the World Economy, Matthew R.
Simmons Alcohol Can Be A Gas Fueling an Ethanol
Revolution for the 21st Century David Blume
(2007)
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Some Interesting Books Sleeping with the Devil
How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude,
Robert Baer Conspiracy of Fools A True Story,
Kurt Eichenwald The End of Oil On the Edge of a
Perilous New World, Paul Roberts Beyond Oil The
View from Hubberts Peak, Kenneth S. Deffeyes The
Bottomless Well The Twilight of Fuel and Why
We will Never Run Out of Oil, Peter Huber A
Thousand Barrels a Second, Peter Tertzakian Big
Coal The Dirty Secret Behind Americas Energy
Future, Jeff Goodell Energy in World
History Vaclav Smil (1995) Coal A Human
History Barbara Freese (Minnesota author) Fossil
Fools Joe Shuster (ChE MN graduate)