Thesis\Treatise and Comprehensive Exam Track: Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 51 Credit Hours ) as Follows
Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses plus ( 18 ) credit hours for the Thesis and Pass the Comprehensive Exam
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| 153988000 | ENERGY SYSTEMS MODELING & SIMULATION | Lectures of simulation and optimization programs for energy system analysis. With the help of the optimization and simulation programs areas of buildings, industries and local / regional energy systems will be studied and designed. The work may include energy supply, energy use and opportunities for energy efficiency, new investment, load management and change of energy carriers (e.g. from electricity to biofuels). The study may include an energy analysis, dentification of possible changes in the energy system, calculation of the appropriate measures and suggestions for what should be implemented | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988010 | GENERATION OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY | This course provides a comprehensive overview of the most vital power generation technologies related to both conventional and alternative fuels for the production and distribution of electricity and heat. The focus is on thermal power; specifically, on the system’s perspective and thermodynamic cycle design of thermal power plants in practice, regardless of the primary energy source. The sustainability aspect in this course is linked to other courses (SRE-001 and SRE-005) which may complement each other to cover the whole spectrum of necessary fundamental knowledge on energy generation. This spectrum is so wide and involves heat and power generation, renewable energy sources, conventional and innovative technologies, pollution and emissions reduction, refrigeration and energy utilization, energy policies and system planning, global issues of geopolitics, human development, and climate change. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988020 | INSTRUMENTATION OF MEASUREMENT & CONTROL | In engineering research projects, extensive experiments and tests are carried out. Arranging the set-up for any engineering experiment, acquiring results, keeping records, handling results, and evaluating uncertainties are all crucial steps for achieving reliable performance. In order to obtain a good quality of any experimental set-up, extensive knowledge on measurement equipment, techniques, instruments, and devices for data acquisition and control is required. Knowledge of measurement techniques is also relevant for researchers conducting numerical studies, as numerical results most often have to be validated with experimental results. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988030 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT & MODELING | The course aims at giving students the ability to cope with analytic and strategic issues related to energy systems and management through systems thinking and modeling. This broad topic cannot be taught exclusively in a conventional way (lectures, assignments, written exams, etc.). Instead, the urban landscape is analyzed and scrutinized in an extensive project considering local possibilities for increasing the share of renewable energy, decreasing the demand, local energy production, smart load management, cost-effectiveness, waste recovery, smart lifestyles, etc. This challenging approach takes the high-level analysis common for “city managers” and combines it with high-resolution focus on individual stakeholders and the practical functioning of the techno-economic system. Energy Modeling involves Interdependence of energy?economy?environment, modeling concept, and application, the methodology of energy demand analysis, Energy forecasting, sectoral energy demand forecasting, Inter fuel substitution models; SIMA model, and I/O model for energy policy analysis. Simulation and forecasting of future energy demand must be consistent with macroeconomic parameters, such as energy economics and policies, national and sectorial energy planning, integrated resource planning, and energy pricing. | 3 | - | 3 |
153988000 ENERGY SYSTEMS MODELING & SIMULATION Lectures of simulation and optimization programs for energy system analysis. With the help of the optimization and simulation programs areas of buildings, industries and local / regional energy systems will be studied and designed. The work may include energy supply, energy use and opportunities for energy efficiency, new investment, load management and change of energy carriers (e.g. from electricity to biofuels). The study may include an energy analysis, dentification of possible changes in the energy system, calculation of the appropriate measures and suggestions for what should be implemented |
| 153988040 | ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT | This course explains the basic and fundamental technological, economic, and social factors related to the use of various forms of renewable energy. Emphasis is given to the trade?off between the use of energy to raise the standard of living and the impact on environmental pollution. The course also discusses how public policy can direct efforts towards energy conservation and wiser use of energy in addition to pollution prevention. Lectures are given by a varying number of experts in order to cover the essential parts of a subject area and give a framework for further in-depth studies via a group project. Exercise where the students use an energy economy forecasting program such as LEAP is demonstrated along with some study visits. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988050 | ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS | The term energy storage refers specifically to the capability of storing energy that has already been generated as electricity and controllably releasing it for use at another time. This course covers the fundamental principles of energy storage technologies, the main economic aspects of each technology, and a case study analysis of a particular project. The technologies that will be discussed encompass solar power (solar chimneys, geothermal and Photovoltaic), chemical storage (biofuels, hydrogen), electrochemical (batteries), thermal (thermocline, molten salt, and ice storage), mechanical (compressed air storage, flywheel, and pumped hydroelectric energy), and electrical (supercapacitors, and superconducting magnetic energy storage) and Hydropower (Tidal and waves) and wind power. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988060 | RESEARCH SKILLS AND ETHICS | Writing Research Reports aims to develop skills needed for writing research and laboratory reports. It covers key stages in writing a standard report and the language patterns associated with each of these stages. Course components include writing a literature review, methodology, results, and discussion sections of a report, dissertation or thesis. Students are requested to attend all scheduled classes and to actively participate in pair work, small groups, and whole class activities in order to develop their academic writing skills. There is a very close connection between the skills that are developed in each class and what is assessed in the tests and assignments. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988070 | RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATION | This course aims to provide a strong understanding of power systems, their operation and control, and particularly of issues related to the integration of distributed renewable generation into the network. The content focuses on technical aspects of traditional and renewable electrical power generation, power transmission and distribution, power network stability, management and control, electricity market operations, and smart grid technologies with particular emphasis on the integration of renewable generation onto the network at both transmission and distribution level and the challenges and opportunities associated with that. These issues form a solid basis in the understanding of future power networks with distributed generation, storage, and smart grid technology is given. | 3 | - | 3 |
153988020 INSTRUMENTATION OF MEASUREMENT & CONTROL In engineering research projects, extensive experiments and tests are carried out. Arranging the set-up for any engineering experiment, acquiring results, keeping records, handling results, and evaluating uncertainties are all crucial steps for achieving reliable performance. In order to obtain a good quality of any experimental set-up, extensive knowledge on measurement equipment, techniques, instruments, and devices for data acquisition and control is required. Knowledge of measurement techniques is also relevant for researchers conducting numerical studies, as numerical results most often have to be validated with experimental results. |
Students must pass ( 9 ) credit hours from any of the following courses
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| 153988080 | HVAC AND UTILIZATION OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY | This course examines energy use in today's society with consideration taken to the environment and sustainability aspects. The course focuses on the technologies that are used to satisfy the needs for cooling, heating, and ventilation that are required in the built environment. In the first part of the course, the function and structure of components and systems that are used in cooling and heat pump systems are treated. The emphasis is placed on, for example, compressor-driven cooling devices, heat pumps, and refrigerated and frozen storage. In the second part of the course, the function and structure of components and systems that are used to create a good and energy efficient indoor environment for people and processes are treated with heating, ventilation, air conditioning, energy conservation, thermal comfort, and air quality as central concepts. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988090 | BIO-ENERGY AND ITS CONVERSION | This course is designed to give students a understanding of energy systems that include a bioprocessing step (i.e., an engineered bioreactor such as anaerobic digestion, anaerobic fermentation, microbial fuel cells, and photobioreactors with Algae). It offers a systematic approach to understanding renewable bioenergy systems (biomass) and their conversion processes, from various aspects of biology, engineering, environmental impacts, economics, and sustainable development. A large part of the course will deepen the understanding of bioprocessing with undefined mixed cultures, referred to as reactor microbiomes. In general, this course focuses on biomass-to-bioenergy conversion, including an introduction to major treatment steps, such as pretreatment steps, fermentation steps, and product separation steps. The course integrates physics, engineering, environmental impacts, economics, and sustainable development. Different energy generation technologies are compared to gain an understanding of the advantages and limitations of these technologies. An emphasis of this course is the technical and economic analysis of large-scale energy systems and their conceptual design. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988100 | WIND ENERGY AND ITS CONVERSION | Wind Energy Course is a comprehensive course where students can learn all about wind energy, wind turbines, and wind farms that are essential in how to design and manage wind farm projects. Wind energy technology covers many technological aspects, like aerodynamics, mechanics, physics, and electrical engineering. Hence, the course intends to provide a wide overview of, for example, the physical power in the wind, the historical development, the wind energy industry, market regulations, wind turbine design concepts, environmental impact of wind turbines, economics, network integration, stand-alone systems, and offshore wind power systems. An important part of the course is a team assignment where the team will perform a feasibility study for a wind energy project. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988110 | PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY AND ITS CONVERSION | The course presents the basics, and advances of solar-PV technologies, and systems. It starts from the basics of energy and the fabrication and then covers the major theoretical, and practical methods for the successful implementation of solar-PV systems for electric energy production. Various modes of operation, load types, system configurations are well covered. The course also provides several case studies, and the use of computer software for modeling, analysis, and sizing of various solar-PV configurations. The topics of the course are coupled with relevant numerical examples. The course also presents practical sizing methods for the design of solar-PV systems. Relevant standards are considered in the sizing process. The overall outcome of the course is to provide the required knowledge, skills, and tools for the successful design and implementation of various solar-PV systems. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988120 | WASTE ENERGY UTILIZATION | The objective of the course is to provide insights into waste management options by reducing the waste destined for disposal and encouraging the use of waste as a resource for alternate energy production. This course is designed to provide an understanding of the various aspects of Waste to Energy. The various sources of waste generation are analyzed with a focus on the potential for energy production. The need for characterization of wastes will be discussed along with the existing norms for waste utilization for the alternate energy sources. Various Technological options available for the production of energy from waste will be delineated along with the economics of using alternate sources. Case studies will be discussed to provide a better understanding of the concepts of “Waste to Energy” in the Indian context. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988130 | GEOTHERMAL ENERGY AND ITS CONVERSION | Geothermal energy uses the flow of thermal energy from beneath the Earth's surface to heat homes and businesses and generate electricity. Geothermal energy is also used in many industrial and commercial applications, such as agriculture, fish farming, food dehydration, gold processing, and milk pasteurizing. Geothermal energy has many advantages over other forms of energy. For instance, it is cleaner and more abundant than fossil fuels. In fact, the thermal energy in the uppermost six miles of the Earth's crust amounts to 50,000 times the energy of all oil and gas resources in the world. With advances in technology, geothermal energy is becoming a more economically viable energy choice for many applications. This course describes the basics of geothermal energy and outlines its advantages relative to other energy sources. The utilization of this energy, different approaches and structures in addition to cost estimates are presented and discussed. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988140 | TIDAL ENERGY AND ITS CONVERSION | One of the alternative sources of renewable energy to be considered, is tidal energy. The rise and fall of ocean tides result from the combined gravitational pull on the water by the Moon and, to a lesser extent, by the Sun, which exerts a force on water directed towards the two astronomical bodies. These gravitational effects combined with centrifugal forces that result from the Earth and the Moon orbiting each other make the details of tidal changes complex. This course considers the power of the ocean tides as a potential source of useable energy and whether or not they can ever make any significant contribution to global energy supplies. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988150 | SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY AND ITS CONVERSION | This course focuses on the application of solar heating systems in commercial and residential buildings, with an emphasis on solar-heated hydronic plumbing systems. Students learn how to assess a site’s characteristics for potential solar applications, size the heating load, select the appropriate solar system configuration and associated equipment, and develop an economic analysis of a solar system’s performance. Many of the principles and practices studied can also be applied to the assessment and development of utility-scale solar-thermal power plants, development of solar heating systems for single-family homes, and assessment of solar-photovoltaic applications. Also explored are solar heating methods, components, and system configurations that are proven and known to perform well over the long term, including more complex solar “combi-systems,” which feature an economical combination of space heating, domestic hot water, and other heat sources and heat loads. Instruction covers the differences between the most popular types of solar heat collectors and the common types of solar heating systems, their components, and control strategies. Topics discussed include configuration selection, equipment sizing and specification of solar heating system collectors and other components, and their integration into typical hydronic heating systems. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988160 | DECENTRALIZED GENERATION OF ENERGY | Introduction to distributed generation; Overview of distributed energy resources, including generator sets, combustion turbines, photovoltaic systems including converters and control (maximum power point tracking), microturbines, fuel cells and energy storage technologies; wind turbines, converter and control aspects; Principles of control of distributed generation systems; Electric power distribution systems, installation, interconnection and integration; Economic and financial aspects of distributed generation, the regulatory environment and standards | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988170 | COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY | This course is necessary to impart the required knowledge and expertise in the fields of computation and applied numerical methods that are principally required in carrying out effective research in the areas of Energy. After completion of this course, the applicant is expected to prepare for his/her Ph.D. research program. Applicants are also familiarized with some modern tools and techniques required for conducting research work and publishing research outputs. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988180 | NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS | Students will understand the operation of a nuclear electric generation station; including all related reactor water chemistry, material science, electrical science, mechanical science, civil engineering for nuclear power plant engineers, and digital process control systems. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 153988190 | FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUES | This course focuses on finite element methods (FEM) for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE). The most important finite elements are introduced, for example, higher-order polynomials on tetrahedra and hexahedra as well as iso-parametric elements. An abstract framework for the analysis of elliptic problems is used throughout the course, in example to prove existence and uniqueness and for error analysis. | 3 | - | 3 |
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