Energy Environmental Impacts

Energy Environmental Impacts

To download the pdf lectures:

Environmental Impacts of Energy by Hasan Maridi

The course contents:

1- An introduction to energy, its units of measurement, its types, sources, methods of conversion, and the method of calculating consumption growth

2- A simple review of thermodynamics and the most important chemical laws will help us in understanding the calculation of environmental pollution.

3- Sources of fossil fuels and calculating the environmental impacts of their combustion

4- Types of environmental pollutants of water, air, soil, and noise resulting from traditional energy sources and their impact on humans, life, and society and ways to control and reduce them.

5- Effects of nuclear energy and radioactivity on the environment.

6- Environmental impacts of renewable energy sources.

Lecture notes: Energy_Environmental_Impacts_Hasan_Maridi

Homeworks: HW 1, HW 2, HW 3, HW 4, HW 5

Exams:

• 2^nd Semester 2018/2019: 1st Exam (Mar 2019) , 2nd Exam (Apr 2019) , Final Exam (May 2019)

• 1^st Semester 2019/2020: 1st Exam (Nov 2019) , 2nd Exam (Dec 2019), Final Exam (Jan 2020)

Textbook: Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science, by Gilbert M. Masters Wendell P. Ela, Third Edition 2014, Pearson, ISBN 13: 978-1-292-02575-9.

References:

1. Gilbert M. Masters Wendell P. Ela, Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science, Third Edition, Pearson, 2014.

2. Roger A. Hinrichs and Merlin Kleinbach, Energy: Its Use and the Environment, Fifth Edition, Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, 2013

3. 3- S. Patel and S. Shrivastava, Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy Technologies, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering, 20 - 21 March, 2009 MED, G H Patel College of Engineering and Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar – 388 120

4. Environmental Impact of Renewable Energy, https://www.e-education.psu.edu/eme807/node/715

5. James A. Fay and Dan S. Golomb, Energy and the Environment, Oxford University Press, 2002.

6. Anubha Kaushik and C.P. Kaushik, Basics of Environment and Ecology, New Age International (P) Ltd, 2010.

7. Anil Kumar De and Arnab Kumar De , Environment and Ecology, New Age International (P) Ltd, 2009.

8. Nichelle Pulliam, Energy and the Environment, The English Press, 2011.

9. P. Aarne Vesilind, Susan M. Morgan, and Lauren G. Heine, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Third Edition, Cengage Learning, 2010.

10. Ruth E Weiner and Robin A. Matthews, Environmental Engineering, Fourth Edition, Butterworth Heineman, 2013.

11. Daniel Kammen, Energy and Society, ER100 Course, University of California, Berkeley, 2015.