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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.

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.