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Physical principles and thermodynamics of electrochemical energy conversion and fuel cells.
Fuel cell reaction kinetics and charge transport.
Polymer electrolyte membrane and solid oxide fuel cells, their electrochemistry, heat and mass transfer.
Performance characteristics and efficiency of fuel cells, and factors affecting them.
Fuel cell modeling, polarization curves, and fuel cell measurement techniques.
Hydrogen as a fuel and its characteristics, storage and use, and safety aspects.
Fuel cell systems and applications.
This course covers an overview of energy policies and policy instruments that facilitate investment in renewable
energy technologies and increased energy efficiency; student case study analysis of various successful and
unsuccessful policy options that have been implemented. Valuation methods for assessing the economic and
environmental importance of renewable energy and potential impacts of different policy alternatives and options;
benefit to cost analysis of various renewable energy choices and increased energy security; models used to assess
various implications of alternative energy futures or scenarios.
The aim of this course is to develop students' ability to critically assess energy performance, design sustainable energy solutions, and integrate environmental policies into engineering decisions. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical application, students will gain the skills necessary to address contemporary challenges in energy and environmental engineering, contributing to sustainable development and environmental protection.
- Teacher: Serkan Abbasoglu
This course covers fundamentals of thermodynamic, phase equations, Legendre transforms, Maxwell relations,
chemical reactions, thermo-electric, thermo-magnetism and its impacts.
This
course is an introduction to technologies for air pollution and its control. It
contains information on the effects of air pollution on humans and the
environment, and the sources of air pollution. Special focus is placed on
control technologies of the solid or gaseous air pollutants. The students will
have detailed information about the design of control technologies as well as
the properties and nature of particulate matter. Particulate matter control
technologies such as electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, cyclones and
settling chambers will be discussed. In addition, the general concepts of
gaseous pollutants and information on technologies necessary for the control of
gaseous pollutants like wet scrubbers for the control of sulfur oxides will also be discussed.
This course provides students with principles of environmental ecology and make students aware of ecological perspective of the current and future environmental problems. In this course, freshwater ecology, marine ecology, terrestrial ecology, eutrophication, natural resources and their management, functional parts of ecosystem, energy flows, nutrient cycles and significance of pollution in the ecosystem topics will be discussed.
- Teacher: Sifa Dogan
The aim of this course is to discuss personal, industrial and countrywide water consumption behavior and factors affecting it as well as strategies to achieve goals set for sustainable water consumption by United Nations. Some of the themes that will be covered in this course are water footprint, blue, green and grey water footprints, water footprint evaluation steps, personal water footprints, agricultural and industrial footprints, Country’s footprints, availability and dependency on water, status of country’s water footprints. Students will be able to calculate their own footprints. They will evaluate the water footprint values for various countries and discuss the differences. Students will observe the uneven distribution of the world’s water resources and also the differences in worldwide consumption habits. In this course the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals particularly the ones involving water footprint themes will be investigated.
- Teacher: Sifa Dogan
Environmental geology and natural hazards is
designed to provide students with a basic understanding on surveying of
environmental processes with respect to the interactions between humans and the
Earth. During the course students will learn how to identify environmental
hazards, understand the challenges of predicting and preventing natural disasters,
and prevent pollution. Various catastrophic events such as earthquakes,
tsunamis, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions will be clarified and
discussed on real case studies. In addition, the relationship of natural
resources to pollution distribution, resource usage and impacts, waste management,
hydrologic cycle, water quality,
desalination, resource availability, toxic and radioactive waste disposal
problems and proposed solutions, landfill, global climate change, sea level
rise, greenhouse gases, extreme weather and so on will be mentioned.
By
the end of this module students should:
composition of
the
atmosphere and
oceans, and
their biological, physical and chemical controls
and
be able to describe
the
roles that the atmosphere
and
oceans play in the Earth
system
an
awareness of current research and
developments in atmospheric
and
ocean science and
be able to critically analyse current
research papers
communicate complex concepts in
ocean
science