Course content

• Management and storage of heat, mechanical, and electrical energy.
• Energy market, research, and application aspects (eg. Smart-grid, off-grid, Ragone plot, buffer concepts).
• Thermal energy storage, heat reservoirs, phase transition utilization and chemically bound heat (eg. A district heating network, solar heat).
• Mechanical energy storage: flywheel, pumps, turbines and heat recovery (eg air compression pump power, flywheels of various sizes).
• Electrochemical storage of electrical energy: important battery technologies and hydrogen technologies (incl. Lead-acid batteries, various Li-ion batteries, various technologies for electrolysis of water, different hydrogen storage technologies, and various fuel cells).

Learning outcome

• Knowledge : The candidate must understand - Concept and operation of available and relevant energy storage systems. - Comparison tools used in system evaluation. - Different needs within energy storage. - Cause and propagation of efficiency losses in various energy storage systems. - Manufacturing, testing and ageing of Li-ionbatteries, fuel cells and electrolysis cells.
• Skills: The candidate is expected to be able to - explain the concept and operation of available and relevant energy storage systems. - calculate the efficiency of charging cycles for different energy storage systems. - design energy and power needs of simple hybrid systems based on output and energy capacity.
• General competence : The candidate is expected to manage basic principles for accessible and relevant energy storage systems and quantitatively and qualitatively be able to compare these. - The candidate knows how to produce and test Li-ion battery cells, fuel cells and electrolysis cells.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, compulsory tutorial exercises, and compulsory laboratory exercises.

• 1 mandatory laboratory exercise (Small Group Submission)
• 5 out of 6 tutorial exercises.(Individual Submission)*

*May be reduced to 4 out of 5 tutorial exercises depending on Exam Date

Exercises must be approved to admitted access to examination.

Lectures, Assignments, Labs and the Exam will be given in English to accommodate foreign students on exchange. Students are can choose write their Assignments, Labs, and Exam answers in English or Norwegian as they feel most comfortable.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

• Basic Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics
• Prior Exposure to Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics will be an advantage

Course materials

• Distributed written academic materials in Canvas
• Review articles as appropriate

Credit reductions