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Energy myths and misconceptions to better equip participants to understand a pathway for global energy transformation. Key concepts developed and employed include energy [kinetic, potential, chemical, thermal, etc.], power, heat, renewables, efficiency, transmission, and life cycle analysis. Throughout this seminar groups of students are challenged with "energy myths" and their task is to deconstruct these myths and convince their classmates in oral presentations that they have indeed done so. Emphasis is on critical and analytical thinking, problem solving and presentation.

NOTE: This course will be taught in-person on main campus, lectures are recorded and available asynchronously. Energy is the number one contributor to climate change and has significant consequences for our society, political system, economy, and environment. Energy is also a fundamental driver of human development and opportunity. In taking this course, students will not only understand the fundamentals of each energy resource - including significance and potential, conversion processes and technologies, drivers and barriers, policy and regulation, and social, economic, and environmental impacts - students will also be able to put this in the context of the broader energy system. Both depletable and renewable energy resources are covered, including oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, biomass and biofuel, hydroelectric, wind, solar thermal and photovoltaics (PV), geothermal, and ocean energy, with cross-cutting topics including electricity, storage, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), sustainability, green buildings, energy efficiency, transportation, and the developing world. The 4 unit course includes lecture and in-class discussion, readings and videos, homework assignments, one on-campus field trip during lecture time and two off-campus field trips with brief report assignments. Off-campus field trips to wind farms, solar farms, nuclear power plants, natural gas power plants, hydroelectric dams, etc. Enroll for 5 units to also attend the Workshop, an interactive discussion section on cross-cutting topics that meets once per week for 80 minutes (Mondays, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM). Open to all: pre-majors and majors, with any background! Website: https://understand-energy-course.stanford.edu/ CEE 107S/207S Understand Energy: Essentials is a shorter (3 unit) version of this course, offered summer quarter. Students should not take both for credit. Prerequisites: Algebra.

The Explore Energy seminar series is a weekly residential education experience open to all Stanford students and hosted by the Explore Energy House. Course content features current topics that affect the pace of energy transitions at multiple scales and in multiple sectors. Consistent with Stanford's interest in fostering community and inclusion, this course will facilitate cross-house exchanges with residents in Stanford's academic theme houses that have intersections with energy, catalyzing new connections with common interests. Each quarter will include some sessions that feature Stanford itself as a living laboratory for energy transitions that can be catalyzed by technology, policy, and social systems. Stanford alumni with a range of disciplinary backgrounds will be among the presenters each quarter, supporting exploration of both educational and career development paths. Optional daytime field trips complement this evening seminar series.

On-the-job practical training under the guidance of on-site supervisors. Required report detailing work activities, problems, assignments and key results. Prerequisite: written consent of instructor.

The current electric system was built with a focus on large, continuous-duty baseload power generators fueled primarily by coal and nuclear generation. The electric grid was designed to meet local needs rather than regional or national ones, leading to a shortage of transmission capacity for integrating renewable energy sources like wind and solar. This shortage has created a backlog of interconnection applications for utility-scale wind, solar, and energy storage projects to reach wholesale power markets. The problem is compounded by the fact that transmission permitting is largely a state issue, with each state prioritizing its own interests. As a result, renewable developers face high network upgrade costs to connect wind, solar, and storage to the transmission system, creating a chicken-egg cycle that impedes the clean energy transition. This course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of electric grid planning, focusing on the integration of emerging generation technologies, including solar, wind, geothermal, and energy storage. The course covers a range of key issues related to electric grid planning, including policy, economics, environmental impacts, and the latest tools and techniques for electric grid planning. Students will learn how to evaluate and analyze the economic principles of electricity systems, conduct a cost-benefit analysis of emerging generation technologies, and identify financing options for these technologies. The course uses the project-based learning approach. Students will work on three different real-world problems: the US, Germany, and a local context. This hands-on approach will allow students to gain practical experience in designing and implementing electricity systems that integrate emerging-generation technologies. By the end of the course, students will have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by the integration of emerging generations into the electric grid and will be equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to design and implement effective solutions. Open-source tools (written in Python) and datasets for the course projects will be provided. Prerequisites: Students should be familiar with basic energy systems and are encouraged to take the ENERGY 101, 102, and "Understand Energy" course (CEE 107A/207A - ENERGY 107A/207A - EARTHSYS103) first; or permission of instructor.

Leading field trips, preparing lecture notes, quizzes under supervision of the instructor. May be repeated for credit.

Original and guided research problems with comprehensive report. May be repeated for credit.

In this course we will provide an understanding of current and future energy systems under climate change and sustainability goals; understanding the fundamentals of engineering and energy conversion processes; model global exergy resources; modeling the grid and electricity markets; model environmental life-cycle, costs, and benefits of energy technologies and systems.

The purpose of this seminar series is to educate students on the key elements of 8-9 of the highest greenhouse gas emitting sectors globally, and open technical challenges and business opportunities in these problem spaces that are ripe for new climate-tech company explorations. Students are encouraged to take inspiration from the weekly lecture topics to incubate high-potential concepts for new companies, and apply to continue developing these concepts in student-led teams through the winter and spring quarter course, ENERGY 203: Stanford Climate Ventures. Weekly seminars are delivered by course instructors and outside industry and academic experts. Please visit scv.stanford.edu for additional information.

NOTE: This course will be taught in-person on main campus, lectures are recorded and available asynchronously. Energy is the number one contributor to climate change and has significant consequences for our society, political system, economy, and environment. Energy is also a fundamental driver of human development and opportunity. In taking this course, students will not only understand the fundamentals of each energy resource - including significance and potential, conversion processes and technologies, drivers and barriers, policy and regulation, and social, economic, and environmental impacts - students will also be able to put this in the context of the broader energy system. Both depletable and renewable energy resources are covered, including oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, biomass and biofuel, hydroelectric, wind, solar thermal and photovoltaics (PV), geothermal, and ocean energy, with cross-cutting topics including electricity, storage, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), sustainability, green buildings, energy efficiency, transportation, and the developing world. The 4 unit course includes lecture and in-class discussion, readings and videos, homework assignments, one on-campus field trip during lecture time and two off-campus field trips with brief report assignments. Off-campus field trips to wind farms, solar farms, nuclear power plants, natural gas power plants, hydroelectric dams, etc. Enroll for 5 units to also attend the Workshop, an interactive discussion section on cross-cutting topics that meets once per week for 80 minutes (Mondays, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM). Open to all: pre-majors and majors, with any background! Website: https://understand-energy-course.stanford.edu/ CEE 107S/207S Understand Energy: Essentials is a shorter (3 unit) version of this course, offered summer quarter. Students should not take both for credit. Prerequisites: Algebra.

The Explore Energy seminar series is a weekly residential education experience open to all Stanford students and hosted by the Explore Energy House. Course content features current topics that affect the pace of energy transitions at multiple scales and in multiple sectors. Consistent with Stanford's interest in fostering community and inclusion, this course will facilitate cross-house exchanges with residents in Stanford's academic theme houses that have intersections with energy, catalyzing new connections with common interests. Each quarter will include some sessions that feature Stanford itself as a living laboratory for energy transitions that can be catalyzed by technology, policy, and social systems. Stanford alumni with a range of disciplinary backgrounds will be among the presenters each quarter, supporting exploration of both educational and career development paths. Optional daytime field trips complement this evening seminar series.

Topics include compositional modeling, coupled flow and geomechanics, modeling of fractured systems, treatment of full-tensor permeability and grid nonorthogonality, higher-order methods, streamline simulation, upscaling, multiscale methods, algebraic multigrid solvers, history matching, other selected topics. Prerequisite: 223 or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit.

(Former GEOLSCI 248) How the petroleum system concept can be used to more systematically investigate how hydrocarbon fluid becomes an unconventional accumulation in a pod of active source rock and how this fluid moves from this pod to a conventional pool. How to identify, map, and name a petroleum system. The conventional and unconventional accumulation as well as the use of modeling. Change of Department Name: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Formerly Geological Science)

Lectures, problems. The volumetric behavior of fluids at high pressure. Equation of state representation of volumetric behavior. Thermodynamic functions and conditions of equilibrium, Gibbs and Helmholtz energy, chemical potential, fugacity. Phase diagrams for binary and multicomponent systems. Calculation of phase compositions from volumetric behavior for multicomponent mixtures. Experimental techniques for phase-equilibrium measurements. May be repeated for credit.

On-the-job training for master's degree students under the guidance of on-site supervisors. Students submit a report detailing work activities, problems, assignments, and key results. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of adviser.

Special Topics in Energy Science and Engineering

The current electric system was built with a focus on large, continuous-duty baseload power generators fueled primarily by coal and nuclear generation. The electric grid was designed to meet local needs rather than regional or national ones, leading to a shortage of transmission capacity for integrating renewable energy sources like wind and solar. This shortage has created a backlog of interconnection applications for utility-scale wind, solar, and energy storage projects to reach wholesale power markets. The problem is compounded by the fact that transmission permitting is largely a state issue, with each state prioritizing its own interests. As a result, renewable developers face high network upgrade costs to connect wind, solar, and storage to the transmission system, creating a chicken-egg cycle that impedes the clean energy transition. This course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of electric grid planning, focusing on the integration of emerging generation technologies, including solar, wind, geothermal, and energy storage. The course covers a range of key issues related to electric grid planning, including policy, economics, environmental impacts, and the latest tools and techniques for electric grid planning. Students will learn how to evaluate and analyze the economic principles of electricity systems, conduct a cost-benefit analysis of emerging generation technologies, and identify financing options for these technologies. The course uses the project-based learning approach. Students will work on three different real-world problems: the US, Germany, and a local context. This hands-on approach will allow students to gain practical experience in designing and implementing electricity systems that integrate emerging-generation technologies. By the end of the course, students will have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by the integration of emerging generations into the electric grid and will be equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to design and implement effective solutions. Open-source tools (written in Python) and datasets for the course projects will be provided. Prerequisites: Students should be familiar with basic energy systems and are encouraged to take the ENERGY 101, 102, and "Understand Energy" course (CEE 107A/207A - ENERGY 107A/207A - EARTHSYS103) first; or permission of instructor.

Energy systems are multiphysics and multiscale in nature. This course addresses the quantitative understanding of fundamental physical processes that govern fluid flow and mass/heat transfer processes, critical to many energy systems. The course will cover conservation laws describing the dynamics of single phase flows, relevant to energy applications including, but not limited to, laminar flow solutions in pipes and ducts, Stokes flows (relevant to flow in porous media), potential and boundary layer flow theories (relevant to wind energy), heat and mass transport (relevant to geothermal and energy storage systems, reactive transport in the subsurface, CO2 sequestration). Although motivated by specific applications in the energy landscape, the course will be focused on fundamental principles and mathematical techniques to understand the basic physics underlying flow and transport processes.

Independent studies under the direction of a faculty member for which academic credit may properly be allowed.

Interdisciplinary exploration of current energy challenges and opportunities in the context of development, equity and sustainability objectives. Talks are presented by faculty, visitors, and students and include relevant technology, policy, and systems perspectives. More information about the seminar can be found on the website https://energyseminar.stanford.edu/May be repeated for credit.

This is a seminar on carbon dioxide and methane removal, utilization, and sequestration options, and their role in decarbonizing the global energy system. This course will cover topics including the global carbon balance, utilizing atmospheric carbon in engineered solutions, recycling and sequestering fossil-based carbon, and enhancing natural carbon sinks. The multidisciplinary lectures and discussions will cover elements of technology, economics, policy and social acceptance, and will be led by a series of guest lecturers.

Current research topics. Presentations by guest speakers from Stanford and elsewhere. May be repeated for credit.

Current research topics. Presentations by guest speakers from Stanford and elsewhere. May be repeated for credit.

On-the-job training for doctoral students under the guidance of on-site supervisors. Students submit a report on work activities, problems, assignments, and results. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of adviser.

For Ph.D. candidates in Energy Resources Engineering. Course and lecture design and preparation; lecturing practice in small groups. Classroom teaching practice in an Energy Resources Engineering course. Teaching to be evaluated by students in the class, as well as by the instructor.

Graduate-level work in experimental, computational, or theoretical research. Special research not included in graduate degree program. May be repeated for credit.

Experimental, computational, or theoretical research. Advanced technical report writing. Limited to 6 units total.

Graduate-level work in experimental, computational, or theoretical research for Engineer students. Advanced technical report writing. Limited to 15 units total, or 9 units total if 6 units of 361 were previously credited.

Graduate-level work in experimental, computational, or theoretical research for Ph.D. students. Advanced technical report writing.

Electrochemistry is playing an increasingly important role in renewable energy. This course aims to cover the fundamentals of electrochemistry, and then build on that knowledge to cover applications of electrochemistry in energy conversion. Topics to be covered include fuel cells, solar water-splitting, CO2 conversion to fuels and chemicals, batteries, redox flow cells, and supercapacitors. Prerequisites: CHEM 31AB or 31 M, CHEM 33, CHEMENG 110A/B, CHEMENG 130A/B, or equivalents. Recommended: CHEM 173.

TGR Project

TGR Dissertation