Materials for Energy Technologies, 5 cr

Core content

• Energy policy, environmental challenges
• Energy efficiency: light and strong materials, thermal insulation materials.
• Boiler technology and related materials. Combustion and gasification and related materials. Corrosion and erosion resistant materials and coatings.
  Challenges of use of biomass
• Renewable energy: materials for solar and wind energy.
  
• Fuel cell (PEM and SOFC) and related material challenges
• Materials for storage of electricity, primary and secondary batteries

Complementary knowledge

• extreme conditions
• Energy efficient windows and related thin film technology
• hydrogen production and storage
• capacitors

Specialist knowledge

• Nuclear waste disposal
• waste combustion and gasification