University Educational System in the USA

Dr. Debendra K. Das Professor & Past Chair Mechanical Engineering Dept. University of Alaska Fairbanks USA

Fairbanks-New York: 5500 km.

University of Alaska Fairbanks: major comprehensive university doctoral II institution by the Carnegie Foundation founded in 1917 America's northernmost Land, Sea, and Space Grant institution.

STUDENT PROFILE

Enrollment (fall 2006): 10,250 Average age: 26 59% female 41% male 90% undergraduates 10% graduate students 80% Alaska residents 20% from other states 5% from foreign countries

20 acres campus- 8094 acres, two lakes, one rocket lunch site

Oil Pipeline Engineering

 Gas hydrates are solids resembling wet

Gas hydrates

snow resulting from a combination of hydrocarbon gas and liquid water Large gas storage capacity When dissociated at normal surface P & T, a 1 ft3 block of solid methane hydrate with 100 percent void occupancy by methane will release roughly 164 ft3 of methane

USDOE

USGS PDL 10

SMALL HYDRO TURBINE

A hydrokinetic turbine similar to this one was installed in Ruby, Alaska in summer 2008. (New Energy Corp. Inc.). The N.W.T. Power Corp. plans to test at Mackenzie River.
Picture from New Energy Corp. Inc.
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 Chena Hot Springs Power Plant Building Heating

GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES

Pictures from http://www1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/powerplants.html

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