Postgraduate Course: Technologies for Sustainable Energy (PGEE10001)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course aims to provide an introduction to the engineering principles and designs underpinning key sustainable / renewable energy technologies. It is structured to familiarise students with an analytical toolkit to allow them to independently appraise such technologies and their role in the energy system. |
| Course description |
The course offers a reasonably in depth introduction to renewable energy technologies. It sets renewable energy in the wider context and develops a basic qualitative and quantitative toolkit for appraising technologies and carrying out basic design of energy systems. It examines each of the major technologies covering aspects such as: resource, conversion technologies, environmental impacts and commercial, social and regulatory constraints. Finally it briefly examines how renewables can be integrated effectively within the energy system.
The course provides sufficient depth and coverage to build a comprehensive understanding of renewable energy whilst acting as an introduction to more specialist courses on individual technology areas (e.g. wind energy). It also introduces engineering design processes and methodologies, through an exploration of the varied practices of designing sustainable energy installations across a range of technologies. The course material requires numeracy and knowledge of basic physics concepts.
The course deals mainly with renewable electricity generation and its role but includes some material on renewable heat; nuclear and conventional power is excluded.
The course is based on lectures and reading material that provide an efficient summary of key material and techniques, supported by interactive Seminars and Examples Classes. These are further supplemented by tutorial questions and text books. The course is challenging and requires hard work.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe¿key¿principles in design and¿operation of¿sustainable energy conversion¿technologies;
- Identify and evaluate key constraints (e.g. physical, technological, environmental, market, political) in design and operation¿of¿sustainable energy conversion technologies; and
- Apply quantitative and qualitative techniques to carry out basic design of sustainable energy systems involving multiple different energy conversion technologies.
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Reading List
Peake, 2017, Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future, 4th Edition, Oxford University Press.
Sørensen, Renewable Energy: Physics, Engineering, Environmental Impacts, Economics and Planning, 5th Edition, Academic Press
MacKay, 2009, Sustainable Energy ¿ without the hot air, UIT Cambridge Ltd.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | renewable energy,sustainable energy |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Camilla Thomson
Tel: (0131 6)51 3526
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Course secretary | Miss Lucy Davie
Tel: (0131 6)51 7073
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