Energy Science
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Index page for all my energy science material
- Introduction to Energy Science
Modules
- Energy Materials
- Mineralogy
- Minerals or Energy utilisation
- surface offers holes, that electrons can be attracted to.
- Defects on the surface are good places for growing crystals (?)
- How a crystal develops from a solution
- Philosophy of Energy Science
- Thermodynamics and Kinematics
- Introduction to Electromagnetism
- Conventional fuel sources
- Actinide chemistry
- Nuclear Reactor Technology
- ”Introductory Nuclear Physics” S.Krane
- Converting mass to energy, close to mega electron volts, much higher than common ionization energies.
- 03/11/22 15:02:26
- Went through the basics of nuclear chemistry before this. So maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to follow along.
- Bromine, decays to kryptonium which is a gas, all the way down to strontium, which isn’t really radioactive.
- If bromine is in excited state can also emit a neutron?
- Fission product is never really in a ground state.
- Most of the reaction energy goes into kinetic energy of the fission fragments which is absorbed by the lattice (Uranium fuel).
- Neutron flux? “Neutron flux is defined as the number of neutrons crossing unit area of the medium in unit time”
- Trying to control and contain the neutrons to ‘activate’ further reactions.
- A good reaction design, when the neutron life cycle is completely under our control.
- 09/11/22 14:02:05
- Efficient moderator something with a low A number (Atomic mass?).
- Increasing enrichment for fuel makes it safer?
- 17/11/22 15:01:10
- Design safety factor, take worst case scenario and factor it by this.
- Looking at pressure on the containing vessels as collisions per sec.
- Amount of pressure that can be reached from steam generation.
- Xenon (fission product) has a massive cross section.
- Electrochemistry
- Carbon capture and storage… I think
- 03/11/22 12:08:09
- Here we go, trying to follow wtf Juan is saying
- Sequestration, you put CO2 underground in a safe area. An in depth study is needed for the area it’s to be put.
- Avenues to put CO2 into more stable forms (so they don’t release into the atmosphere).
- Mineralisation: reaction with rocks that turns CO2 into a solid, can be stable for sometimes millions of years.
- Minerals used in filters to take CO2 from air.
- Bauxite destroys nature.
- Jesus, pack it in Juan
- 10/11/22 12:02:21
- EOR offsets the CO2 ‘sequestered’ by the amount of oil you get.
- 4 trillion dollars projected to be made through EOR.
- Smaller ions have a higher density of charge.
- Dolomite is produced at ambient temperatures (mountains) but for some reason it can’t be reproduced at ambient temperatures in a lab.
- Activity as the measure of availability of ions.
- You know what, Juan isn’t so bad. It’s more of a me issue. He is trying to break things down for us.
- Lot of good analogies from movies of crowds looking at you.
- 17/11/22 12:15:37
- The partial pressure of CO2 changes the pH of the water or liquid below. CO2 mixes with water and produces carbonic acid.
- Concentration of calcite will be higher at lower pH’s.
- Two types of carbonates is 6 fold or 9 fold with oxygen.
- Something soluble is always more stable.
- Modify the solubility product you can make something more stable. Free energy to cation radius graph.
- VS: vigorous shaking.
- 03/11/22 12:08:09
- Power systems
- Wind Energy
- Biofuels
- Impact of Energy Utilisation
Assignments
- gdp per capita vs energy usage per capita
- Could look at predictions, or trajectories of economies, where that would put them in theory and where they are now.
- energy supply 1997 vs 2020
- climate action plan 2021
Supplementary
Questions
- Would nationalising energy make it cheaper this winter?
Gaps in Knowledge
- How electron configurations determine bonding
- Why things stick together, why the universe isn’t just one big bond?