Introduction: Introduction to Resources, Efficiency and Demand. First the concept of materials energy content (production, processing, use and recycling).
Environmental impacts: Climate change and air pollution, water pollution, Current Energy Generation Technologies and their Limitation
Efficient Energy Production Technologies and Materials: Solar cells, nuclear materials, hard materials for oil/gas recovery, composites for wind energy, thermoelectrics), energy transformation (e.g., fuel cells, light emitting diodes, engines and turbines) and energy storage (e.g., hydrogen storage, phase change materials).
Materials for solar cells: semiconductors.
Materials for batteries: Li-batteries, metal hydride-batteries.
Materials for hydrogen technology: production (electrolysis), storage (hydrides), fuel cells (solid electrolytes, ion conductors).
Materials related to gas-power plants (catalysts, microporous materials, membranes)
Catalytic Conversion and Membrane Separation: Introduction to catalysis, Noble metal catalysts,Oxide catalysts,Introduction to membranes , Porous membranes, Dense membranes
Materials of Nuclear Power Plants: Introduction and materials used |
Text/Reference Books:
- G. David and C. David, “Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability” Cambridge University Press, 2011
- R.A. Huggins,Advanced Batteries, Materials Science Aspects, Springer, 2008.
- R. O’Hare, Suk-Won C., W. Colella, F.Prinz, Fuel Cell Fundamentals, Wiley, 2009.
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