Postgraduate Course: Energy Vectors (IDCORE) (PGEE11265)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course considers the integration and interaction of ORE with the wider energy system. It will address the challenge of providing the energy needs across the electricity, transport, industrial and heating sectors from non-dispatchable ORE. Starting with the integration with the electricity network through high-voltage AC and DC links it examines the benefits and challenges of co-located energy storage (batteries as well as offshore pumped hydro and compressed air). It also covers conversion to alternative energy vectors such as green hydrogen and synthetic fuels. The course ends with the Power Trader game run by Heuristic Games in which students actively participate in an energy market balancing the needs of stakeholders with different aims, resources and constraints. |
| Course description |
2 hours: Introduction to the role of different energy vectors in different sectors (e.g. electricity, heating, transport, industry) and challenges and opportunities for their integration with offshore renewables.
4 hours: Electricity network integration
4 hours: Hydrogen technology (generation, transport, storage and usage)
2 hours: Synthetic fuels, ammonia and biofuels
4 hours: Energy storage (e.g. batteries, hydrogen, compressed air) and their co-location and integration with ORE
4 hours: Electric heating and heat networks and their integration with ORE, hydrogen technology and energy storage
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 8,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 12,
Summative Assessment Hours 5,
Other Study Hours 47,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
0 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
Self study
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Coursework |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain how electricity is transmitted between centres of generation and centres of demand using both transmission and distribution networks.
- Understand the need for enhanced flexibility in planning and operating future energy systems, explain potential sources of flexibility, such as sector coupling, Power-to-X technologies, and various forms of storage techniques
- Explain how hydrogen (generated as an electrofuel) is made, transported stored and used in an energy system.
- Demonstrate how battery, compressed air storage, pumped an be used to balance supply (from non-firm offshore renewable energy sources) and consumer demand over time scales ranging from a few seconds to seasons.
- Size and specify a local energy system which provides electrical, transportation and heat services to a local community.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Energy System,ORE integration,energy storage,hydrogen |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Wei Sun
Tel: (0131 6)50 5575
Email: W.Sun@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Katrina Tait
Tel: (0131 6)51 9023
Email: k.tait@ed.ac.uk |
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