Energy
Management Strategies
Gaytha A. Langlois,
Ph.D.
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EMS
- Exam Review II
Includes
Materials from Course Outline (Weeks 5-6)
Review Study Terms and Focus Questions for each week
(Omit
the following chapters for this exam)
Smil,
Chap. 4-5
Omit sections on nuclear energy and radiation (postponed until final
exam)
TOPICS
Fossil
Fuels
Coal, Petroleum,
Natural Gas, Peat, Kerogen, Tar Sands
Characterize each
fuel by the following descriptors:
Where is it primarily
found? How extensive is the supply?
Who are the main users
(end use sectors)? What are the advantages and
disadvantages of using
that fuel? What is the fuel cycle for each fuel?
(See team
presentations,
available as a link from the Lecture 6 web page - slides in notebook in
Library)
Some helpful lecture notes:
http://web.bryant.edu/%7Elanglois/ems/emslect3B.htm
http://web.bryant.edu/%7Elanglois/ems/pollutionsum.htm
http://web.bryant.edu/%7Elanglois/ems/pollutioninfo.htm
http://web.bryant.edu/%7Elanglois/ems/conventional2004s.htm
Complexities of
global distribution system
MidEast conflicts;
Gulf Conflict in Saudi Arabia; Iraq War;
Nigeria's political
instability; conflicts over water use for processing shale oil or
utilizing
surface mining
techniques;
impacts of pipelines in tundra regions;
Importance of
conversion
techniques for using coal (e.g., coal gasification; coal liquefaction)
Governmental
Roles/Private Sector Business
(stakeholders, policy
making, subsidies, lobbying, global competition)
Important
Locations
Prince William Sound,
Alaska (site of EXXON Valdez oil spill,
which prompted the
passage of a federal law, the Oil Pollution Control Act);
Matunuck, RI (site
of an oil spill in Block Island Sound in 1996)
Martin County, Kentucky (Coal Slurry Disaster in 2000)
http://www.geotimes.org/dec01/NNcoal.html
http://www.louisvillelaw.com/news/sludge_report.htm
http://www.ohvec.org/issues/slurry_impoundments/articles/2002_12.html
http://www.ohvec.org/newsletters/woc_2003_02/article_12.html
http://www.richmond.edu/~wgreen/ejds0203.html
http://www.angelfire.com/pro/kvjara2/Webreport/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/01/60minutes/main609889.shtml
Donora, Pennsylvania (site of a killer smog in 1948)
http://www.actionpa.org/fluoride/donora-fog.html
http://www.docheritage.state.pa.us/documents/donora.asp
http://www.pbs.org/now/science/smog.html
Three Gorges Dam
(located
in China, on the Yangtze River, opened 2004)
Environmental
Impacts of the Energy Industry
Impacts of coal mining
(deep mines; surface mines; restoration requirements)
Oil spills (short
and long term effects; liability issues; technology for cleanup;
prevention)
Acid gases (nitrogen
oxides, sulfur dioxide; acid deposition/precipitation)
Other Pollutants (air
toxics, particulates, photochemical changes)
Global atmospheric
issues (greenhouse gases; effects of global warming)
Specific
Terms: Know the term and its context
(Review terms
associated
with class activities, in addition to lecture terms already posted)
Acid gases (sulfur
dioxide, nitrogen oxides)
Acute vs. Chronic
Exposure to Toxics
Anthracite/Bituminous
Coal
Carbon dioxide
Carbon Sequestration
Catalytic Converters
CFCs
Coal Conversions
(gasification
and liquefaction)
Embodied Energy (Odum
& Odum's book)
EMFs (microwave
radiation
associated with high voltage lines)
Emission
End Use Sectors
Fuel Cycle Analysis
ISO's
Kerogen
Leaking Underground
Storage Tanks Program (LUST)
Methane
Oil Shale
Stratospheric Ozone
Tar Sands
Thinking Styles
EXAM
FORMAT
Objective Questions
(60%); Short Answer Questions (40%)
copyright
Gaytha
A. Langlois, Ph.D., 1999
Bryant
University, Smithfield, RI 02917
e-mail:
langlois@bryant.edu
Last
Updated: April 2008