PICTURES
Class tours, field trips, etc.
UM Medical School HVAC tour (MSRB3, 06oct05)
Guide: Mr. Wm. Brushaber, Med. School engineer
RESOURCES:
Useful formulas, Answers to selected assignments, Lecture notes, etc.
VISITING SPEAKERS
Powerpoint slides, homework from talks, etc.
Non-Textbook Reading Assignments - for Thursdays
- BEGIN [Goodstein04]
- Week 1:
[Goodstein04] Introduction; Chapter 1 - "The
Future," pp. 13-40.
- Week 2:
[Goodstein04] Chapters 2 & 3 - "Energy Myths &
a Brief History of Energy," "Electricity & Radiant
Energy," pp. 41-76.
- Week 3:
[Goodstein04] Chapters 4 & 5 - "Heat engines &
entropy" and "Technological Fixes," pp. 77-101.
- Week 4:
[Goodstein04] Chapters 5 (cont'd) & Envoy:
"Technological Fixes," "The future revisited" and "Annotated
Bibliography," pp. 102-126.
- BEGIN [Deffeyes01] (pronounced "d-phase")
- Week 5:
[Deffeyes01] Chapters 1 & 2: "Overview" and
"The Origin of Oil," pp. 1-13 & 14-39.
- Week 6:
[Deffeyes01] Chapter 3: "Oil Reservoirs and Oil
Traps," pp. 40-69.
- Week 7:
[Deffeyes01] Chapter 4: "Finding It" pp. 70-87.
- Week 8:
[Deffeyes01] Chapter 5:"Drilling Methods" pp. 88-112.
- Week 9:
[Deffeyes01] Chapter 6: "Size and Discoverability of
Oil Fields," pp. 113-132.
- Note: Skip Chapters 7 & 8.
- Week 10:
[Deffeyes01] Chapter 9, 10 & 11: "The Future of
Fossil Fuels," pp. 159-175. "Alternative
Energy Sources" pp. 176-185, and "A New Outlook," pp. 186-190.
- BEGIN [Klare01]
- Week 11:
[Klare02] Introduction; Chapter 1 - "Wealth,
Resources, and Power: The Changing Parameters of Global Security,"
pp. ix-26.
- Week 12:
[Klare02] Chapter 2 - "Oil, Geography, and War: The
Competitive Pursuit of Petroleum Plenty," pp. 27-50.
- Week 13:
[Klare02] Chapter 3 - "Oil Conflict in the Persian
Gulf," pp. 51-80.
- Week 14:
[Klare02] Chapter 4 - "Energy Conflict in the Caspian
Sea Basin," pp. 81-108. (Note: Skip [Klare02] Chapter 5 - "Oil Wars
in the South China Sea," pp. 109-138, and skip Chapters 6-8 on water)
[Klare02] Chapter 9 - "The New Geography of Conflict;"
Appendix: "Territorial Disputes in Areas Containing Oil and/or
Natural Gas," pp. 213-232.
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Description:
This interdisciplinary course traces problems of
Energy and the Environment across four realms. These include:
~75% of material:
- Natural-scientific principles needed to understand
energy and environmental processes. These include kinetic and
potential energy; the First and Second Laws of thermodynamics; forms of
work; of heat transfer including radiation, conduction and convection;
heat engines and refrigeration; combustion; fuel cells; batteries; solar
cells; phase transitions; the forces of nature; a conceptual
understanding of atomic systems and of nuclear fission, fusion and of
the sun; and the use and storage of energy by plants. The
geological origins of fossil fueles and their uneven global distribution
and depletion rates; the scientific principles governing wind, biomass,
water-tidal, geothermal and solar energy.
- Technological-engineering systems for the extraction,
processing and the end-use of energy. Systems include coal,
natural-gas and uranium for the generation of electricity and electrical
distribution grids; and the use of oil in transportation; alternative
energy systems and their engineering limitations. We also study heating,
ventillation, air conditioning (HVAC) and refrigeration systems, as well
as lighting for public and residential buildings; and basics of control
systems.
~25% of material:
- Social and environmental consequences of fossil fuels,
including the greenhouse effect and global warming, acid rain; the
hazards and disposal of radioactive wastes; traffic congestion, urban
sprawl; and social-economic inequalities in the access to energy and
transport services are stressed throughout.
- Political-economy and public policy issues as concerns
energy resources and their exploitation. We compare automobile-
and oil-centric societies with alternative models using mass-transit,
fast-trains and pedestrian mobility. Special attention is paid to the
realities of the global oil industry. U.S., Chinese,
European-Union and Japanese policies, global contention over energy
sources and their distribution, especially oil. US involvement in the
Caspian Basin, the Persian Gulf and Iraq, Latin America and the South
China Seas is discussed, etc.
WARNING: Quantitative measures are
stressed, but without calculus, at the level of high school
algebra and perhaps trigonometry, i.e., 'university physics' level. Some
students find particulary challenging multiple-step and 'story' problems,
which involve quantitative and/or logical reasoning skills. There are
weekly problem sets from the textbook and elsewhere which students are
required to submit. Many, though not all, of these will be graded and
returned by the grader and/or instructor.
While this is at a level for which all U.M. students are presumed
to be prepared; nevertheless, all students are required at the start of
the course to acknowledge that they have been alerted to the
aforementioned quantitative character of the work which will be expected
of them.
TEXT & BOOKS:
NOTE: Books are all available at Shamann Drum Books, located just
north of North University on State Street, second floor.
Required text and books |
Author |
Cited herein as |
Comments |
Energy: Its Use and the Environment, Fourth
edition, Thompson Learning, 2005. |
Hinrichs & Kleinbach |
[Hinrichs&K06] |
Authors are physicists who've taught this course
for ~20 years at SUNY Oswego. Unfortunately this book if $95 new.
Some used are available. |
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil,
Norton, NY, 2004. |
David Goodstein |
[Goodstein04] |
Author is professor of physics, and Vice Provost of
Cal Tech. |
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil
Shortage, Princeton, Princeton NJ, 2001. |
Kenneth S. Deffeyes |
OPTIONAL for the present [Deffeyes01] |
Author is emeritus professor of oil geology at
Princeton U., was an associate of M. King Hubbert at Shell Oil in
Huston in 1950-60s. |
Grading:
Activity |
Points |
Homework problems |
30 |
Class participation and preparation |
30 |
Quizzes |
30 |
Midterms |
30 |
Total: |
120 |
Link to UM Academic
Calendar:
Quizzes and Midterms:
Test |
Class # |
Date |
Quiz 1 |
Class 6 |
Thurs., 22sep05 |
Quiz 2 |
Class 11 |
Tues., 11oct05 |
Midterm 1 |
Class 15 |
Tues., 25oct05 |
Quiz 3 |
Class 21 |
Tues., 15nov05 |
Quiz 4 |
Class 25 |
Tues., 29nov05 |
Midterm 2 |
Class 29 |
Tues., 13dec05 (Last
day) |
List of invited speakers, class tours,
demonstrations, films and videos:
Speaker |
Topic |
Date |
Prof. Emeritus Marc Ross,
Physics |
"Automobile fuel efficienty and safety
studies" |
Thurs. 13Oct05 |
Michael Murray, Ph.D., Staff
Scientist, National Wildlife Federation, Great Lakes Field
Office |
"Coal-fired power plants: Current pollutant
emissions and possible future trends in the U.S". |
Thurs. 17nov05 |
Prof. Emeritus Gerald Smith,
Natural History Museum, Geology and Biology Departments |
"Global climate change: Unavoidable, but on what
time scale?" |
Thurs. 27oct05 |
Deena Patel, post-doc., Physics Dept. & Abigail
Mechtenberg, Physics Grad student; Physics
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"Hydrogen fuel cells, hybrid engines" |
Thurs. 03nov05 |
Prof. James Duderstadt, Nuclear
Engineering; UM VP Academic Affairs and former President. |
"Nuclear power and its prospects" |
Tues. 29nov05 |
Greg DeMaggio Ph.D.; United
Solar Ovonic Corporation, Auburn Hills, MI |
"Large-scale solar panel research, development and
production" |
Thurs. 20oct05 |
Prof. Rosina Bierbaum, Dean of
School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE); Former chief
environmental science advisor to President Clinton |
"The scientific consensus on global warming and its
consequences" |
Thurs. 01dec05 |
Class trip or tour |
Features |
Date |
UM Power Plant. Mr. P. M. Pepper, M.E., Plant
Superintendent |
Gas-fired electrical cogeneration, H.P steam
boilers, turbines, etc. and presentation by
Superintendent. |
Thurs. 10nov05 |
UM Medical Science Research Building 3 (MSRB III),
HVAC equipment. Mr. Wm. Brushaber III, F.E., Assist. Director,
Med. School Facilities Management and Planning |
LiBr absorption
chillers, cooling towers, air handlers, heat exchangers and digital
controls. (SCHEMATICS of typical fan room, boiler room, chiller room
and roof-top cooling towers.
CLICK HERE.) |
Thurs. 06Oct05 |
Video |
Topic, reference |
Date |
Hudson Institute, Conference: "Saudi Arabia in
Crisis" 08jul05
| "The Implications of Saudi Arabian Oil Declining,"
talk by by Matthew R. Simmons, oil industry financial analyst,
Simmons & Company International. C_SPAN
video link |
T.B.A. |
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