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FENT2314

Energy Storage 2

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New from the academic year 2021/2022

Credits 7.5
Level Intermediate course, level II
Course start Autumn 2021
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement School exam

About

About the course

Course content

  • Management and storage of heat, mechanical, and electrical energy.
  • Energy market, research, and application aspects (eg. Smart-grid, off-grid, Ragone plot, buffer concepts).
  • Thermal energy storage, heat reservoirs, phase transition utilization and chemically bound heat (eg. A district heating network, solar heat).
  • Mechanical energy storage: flywheel, pumps, turbines and heat recovery (eg air compression pump power, flywheels of various sizes).
  • Electrochemical storage of electrical energy: important battery technologies and hydrogen technologies (incl. Lead-acid batteries, various Li-ion batteries, various technologies for electrolysis of water, different hydrogen storage technologies, and various fuel cells).

Learning outcome

  • Knowledge : The candidate must understand - Concept and operation of available and relevant energy storage systems. - Comparison tools used in system evaluation. - Different needs within energy storage. - Cause and propagation of efficiency losses in various energy storage systems.
  • Skills: The candidate is expected to be able to - explain the concept and operation of available and relevant energy storage systems. - calculate the efficiency of charging cycles for different energy storage systems. - design energy and power needs of simple hybrid systems based on output and energy capacity.
  • General competence : The candidate is expected to manage basic principles for accessible and relevant energy storage systems and quantitatively and qualitatively be able to compare these. - The candidate is able to set up simple LabView routines and analysis routines developed by others.

Learning methods and activities

Compulsory lectures, compulsory tutorials, and compulsory laboratory exercises.

  • 5 mandatory laboratory exercises
  • 4 out of 5 tutorial exercises.

Exercises must be approved to admitted access to examination.

Compulsory assignments

  • Oblig

Further on evaluation

  • Examination is written 4 hour (digital exam) which counts 100%:

-Marks: Letters AF, where F is fail.

  • Permitted aids at the examination:

-No written or printed aids.

-Specific simple calculator: Casio fx-82ES PLUS, Casio fx-82EX, Citizen SR-270X, Citizen SR-270X College, Hewlett Packard HP30S. - Other permitted calculators: Casio FX9860GII, Casio FXCG20, Texas Instrument 84 Plus.

  • The re-sit examination will be held in March, week 10 or 11, and might be changed to orally if 5 or fewer candidates are registered.

Course materials

  • Book "Engineering Energy Storage", Chapters 1-5 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128141007/engineering-energy-storage 
  • Distributed written academic materials on BlackBoard

-Review article on aging of battery

-Review article on battery production

-Review article on hydrogen production

-Review article on fuel cell and electrolyzer catalyst preparation

-Review article on platinum in the fuel cell auto sector

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
FENA2314 7.5 sp Autumn 2019
FENG2314 7.5 sp Autumn 2019
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Engineering Subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Energy and Process Engineering