Module Title: Energy Conservation and the Environment

Module Code: ETEC- 6406

Module Credits/ECTS: Credit Hours: 3

ECTS: 6
Pre-requisite Module: ETEC-6401: Renewable Energy Resources and Technologies

Co-requisite Module:

Module Objectives:
This course aims at providing skills required to identify and implement energy conservation and
overview of the effects of power generation and energy utilization on ecology and climate.

Module Description/Contents:
Energy auditing: Thermal Energy Distribution and Utilization, Electrical Energy Utilization;.
Use and Efficiency of Electrical Equipment; Electric Heating Equipment: Resistance, Induction,
and Dielectric; Welder; Elevator, Escalator and Conveyer, Blower, Pump, Compressor Energy
Conservation: Steam and Hot Water Pipes, Condensates, HVAC Systems, Electric Lighting,
Electric Motors;
Energy Conservation: Steam and Hot Water Pipes, Condensates, HVAC Systems, Electric
Lighting, Electric Motors; Energy Conservation Project Planning;
Emission from Combustion of Fuels and Green House Gases; Pollutant and Emission
Measurement and Reduction Strategies.

Teaching Strategy/Methods:
Lectures,
Exercises, and
Projects

Evaluation Schemes:
Assignments and Mid-semester Exam. 40%
Final Exam 60%

Module Support/ Input:

Lectures supported by PowerPoint presentations;
Exercises and Projects; and
Lecture notes of the PowerPoint presentations would be made available.
Module Requirements:
Minimum of 75% attendance of lectures; and
Submission of all exercises and projects within the specified deadlines.

Module Textbook:

Module References:
1. Boyle Godfrey, Bob Everett, Janet Ramage, Energy Systems and Sustainability, Oxford
University Press, 2003;
2. Boyle, Godfrey, Renewable Energy, Oxford University Press, 2004
3. McFarland, Hunt, Campbell, Energy, Physics and the Environment;
4. Edward S. Cassedy, Peter Z. Grossman, Introduction to Energy: Resources, Technology,
and Society
5. Hinrichs, R. A., and Kleinbach, M., 2006, Energy – Its Uses and the Environment, Fourth
Edition, Thompson Brooks/Cole, Belmont
6. Paul Ih-Fei Liu. Energy, Technology, and the Environment. American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. 2004