Environmental Impact of Electric Power Systems

Course Description

Energy sources. Energy and the Environment, global energy use and supply: production cycles of the electric power sources and their impacts on the environment. Fossil and Nuclear fuelled power plants, renewable energy. Understanding pollution and waste from electricity generation: air, water and land pollution. Sustainable electricity and comparison of the environmental impacts. Global warming and ozone problems. Energy security and climate changes. Advanced electricity generation technologies. Technical and economic characteristics of emission abatement technologies. Environmental regulations and standards. External costs. Methodologies for comparative assessment. Sustainability criteria. UNFCCC mechanisms. Emissions trading schemes.

Study Programmes

Postgraduate doctoral study programme

Literature

Danilo Feretić, Željko Tomšić, Dejan Škanata, Nikola Čavlina, Damir Subašić (2000.), Elektrane i okoliš, Element, Zagreb
(.), ExternE - Externalities of Energy vol I-VIII, European Comission EUR 16523 EN, DG XII, Brussels, 1995.-2000.
Roger A. Sedjo (2019.), Surviving Global Warming: Why Eliminating Greenhouse Gases Isn't Enough, Prometheus Books
Karl B. Schnelle, Partha R. Dey (2000.), Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Compliance Guide, McGraw Hill Professional
James A. Fay, Dan S. Golomb (2002.), Energy and the Environment, Oxford University Press
R E Hester, R M Harrison (2007.), Environmental Impact of Power Generation, Royal Society of Chemistry
Eric Jeffs (2018.), Greener Energy Systems, CRC Press
Andrew Swift (2015.), Wind Energy Essentials, John Wiley & Sons
Christian Ngo, Joseph Natowitz (2012.), Our Energy Future, John Wiley & Sons
Andrea Ricci (2006.), Policy use of the NEEDS results, New Energy externalities Development for Sustainability-NEEDS, Report,

Lecturers

Prof.
Željko Tomšić

For students

General

ID 154710
  Winter semester
6 ECTS
L3 English Level