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Learning Outcomes

Introduction to Sustainable Energy Landscape and Generation vs Energy Storage (1 Lectures) Macroscopic Processes for Sustainable Power/Energy Generation (10 Lectures) •Wind power: rotor aerodynamic and performance, optimal rotor design, rotor structural materials and mechanics, mechanical transmission and electrical power generation, civil engineering •Hydro and tidal power Thermodynamic Processes for Sustainable Power/Energy Generation (7 lectures): •Solar thermal power generation: heat transfer and energy harvesting, power generation cycles •Thermodynamics of real gasses and phase transition •Liquefaction of liquid hydrogen •Biomass and combined cycles Microscopic Processes for Sustainable Power/Energy Generation (10 Lectures) •Functional materials: conceptual fundamentals of solid physics of photovoltaic materials, PV operation, performance and modern development, material fabrication, other energy materials •Chemical processes: fundamental electro-chemistry for batteries, type of batteries and their uses •Nuclear Energy: fusion and fission reactions and reactors Sustainable Energy Systems (6 lectures): •Balance of production and demand fluctuation with energy storage and distributed generation with optimal topology and combination of different technologies •Student led case study of a microgrid using complimentary sustainable generation methods Revision (3 lectures)

Teaching methods include •Lectures including examples. Learning activities include •Set example questions •Directed reading •Group activities for case study