ME405 ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS
| Course Code: | 5690405 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Mechanical Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. ŞERİF FARUK ARİNÇ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The purpose of this course is to critically examine the technology of energy systems that will be acceptable in a world faced with global warming, local pollution, population increase, and declining supplies of fossil fuels. The focus is on renewable energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal), but other non-carbon emitting sources (nuclear) and reduced carbon sources (co-generative gas turbine plants, fuel cells) are also studied. Both the devices and the overall systems are analyzed.
Course Content
Energy demand and available resources in the world and in Turkey. Renewable sources: wind, wave, tide, geothermal, biogas and solar energy. Fossil fuels, combustion and combustion equipment. Steam generators. Atomic structure, nuclear reactions; decay, fusion and fission. Reactors. Environmental effects.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. The students will become familiar with the basic principles of chemical, nuclear, solar, geothermal, and wind energy conversion systems and engineering calculations of their performance and preliminary design.
2. The students will be able to compare competing energy conversion technologies on an economic and efficiency basis.
3. The students will become familiar with the physics of the environmental issues, including the greenhouse effect and global climate change, and will be able to assess the validity of energy conversion claims made in popular media.
4. The students will be able to apply engineering analysis techniques to the emerging energy technologies of the 21st century (e.g. wind turbines, combined cycle power plants), and to understand the context in which the design of energy systems takes place.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | No | Yes | ||
| 1 | Ability to establish the relationship between mathematics, basic sciences and engineering sciences with engineering applications. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Ability to find and interpret information | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Ability to follow the literature and technology related to his/her topic of interest | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Recognition of the need to keep oneself up to date in his/her profession | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Possession of written and oral communication skills | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Ability to conduct team work (within the discipline, inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary) | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Ability to produce original solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Use of scientific methodology in approaching and producing solutions to engineering problems and needs | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Openness to all that is new | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Ability to conduct experiments | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Ability to do engineering design | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Awareness of engineering ethics, knowledge and adoption of its fundamental elements | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Ability to take societal, environmental and economical considerations into account in professional activities | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Possession of pioneering and leadership characteristics in areas related to the profession | ✔ | |||