Northwest Workforce Training on Smart Grid > Graduate Courses > G2
Course Description
Goals
To introduce students to
- The negative environmental and health aspects of energy systems today
- Technologies that can be retrofitted to clean the current generators
- New technologies under development for the next generation of cleaner energy sources
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to
- Understand the operation of coal and nuclear plants
- Understand the methods used to clean the pollutants from coal
- Understand how energy security can be obtained without negative environmental and health effects
Textbook
Clean Coal Engineering Technology by Bruce G. Miller, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011
Additional Material
- Lecture material
- Sustainable Nuclear Power, Galen J. Suppes and Truman Storvick, Academic Press, 2007
Topics
Introduction to Energy in the United States
Coal, Its Characteristics, and Its World Wide Distribution
Effects of Coal Mining and Processing on Health and the Environment
Effects of Coal Combustion on Health and the Environment
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Global Warming
Coal Combustion and Coal Combustion Systems
Anatomy of a Coal-Fired Power Plant
Introduction to Coal Gasification
Clean Coal Technologies for Advanced Power Generation
Coal-Fired Emissions and Legislative Action
Emission Control Strategies for Power Plants
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
Sustainable Nuclear Power
Course Structure
- Each lecture is 50-minute
- You are expected to complete about 40 lectures
- After each module, you are assigned a homework.
Computer Resources
Lecture material, homework and lab assignments are posted on the class web page
