ER 100/200N Week 15 Discussion Section 1 Final Exam Study Guide This “study guide” is a list of key concepts and readings from each week. You will notice that it closely follows the list from the midterm review for the first half of the course – what was important then is still important now. Week 1 – Introduction to Energy Systems and Society Unit Conversions Energy vs. Power Week 2 – Methods in Energy Analysis IPAT Stoichiometry Key readings: Lovins (1976) Rubin pp. 3-17 and Masters (1991) for combustion chemistry/stoichiometry Week 3 – Energy and Development Energy ladder Energy and gender Key readings: Goldemburg (1996) Kammen and Dove (1997) Bose (1993) Week 4 – Hydrocarbon Energy Thermodynamics: 1st, 2nd, and Carnot efficiencies Hubbert’s Curve Key readings: Masters (1991) and Cengel (2001) for thermodynamics Friedman (2006) Week 5 – Hydrocarbon Man Brayton, Rankine, and combined cycles and their schematics Cogeneration Power plant pollution and its controls Key readings:ER 100/200N Week 15 Discussion Section 2 Masters (1991) for information on air pollution controls Week 6 – Energy Financial Analysis and the Modern Energy Sector Learning curves Economic analysis: Discounting, NPV, uniform payments, and using that CRF Natural monopoly Key Readings: Hirsh (1999) Week 7 – Energy Systems: from Cradle to Grave & Energy Efficiency Life-cycle analysis Cost of Conserved Energy graph Key Readings: Jones, Kammen, and Horvath (2007) Asian Development Bank (2005) Week 8 – The Power Grid, Market Growth, Crisis, and Manipulation Regulation and deregulation California Energy Crisis Electricity calculations: Ohm’s Law and the Power Law Key Readings: Duane (2002) Week 10 –Nuclear Power Fission and radioactive decay (i.e. half-life calculations) Nuclear reactor design basics Nuclear waste storage and reprocessing Key Readings: Deutch and Lester (2004) Week 11 – Renewable Energy Technologies – Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen Wind turbines Solar PV cells Wind and solar resource estimation Hydrogen fuel cells and their thermodynamics Week 12 – Biofuels & TransportationER 100/200N Week 15 Discussion Section 3 Biofuels and impacts on food security and land use Transportation as slice of energy demand Key Readings: Farrell, Plevin, Turner, Jones, O’Hare, and Kammen (2006) Week 13 – Energy & Equity (formerly in Week 9) and the Modernizing South Environmental justice: concepts, definitions, and cases Key Readings: O’Rourke and Connolly (2003) Weeks 14 and 15 – Energy and the Global Environment Greenhouse gases GHG sources and sinks Climate change impacts Mitigation options Key Readings: Collins (2007) for the climate science Kolbert (2005) Pacala and Socolow (2004) Attachments: • WRI GHG Emissions Flows (http://cait.wri.org/figures.php) • Vattenfall Cost of Conserved Carbon Diagram (see lecture slides) • New Yorker – Solar
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