About
Globally, there is an ongoing shift in energy production away from fossil fuels towards energy sources with lower carbon footprints. The primary objective of this training course is to provide an overview of the various available technologies, highlighting their pros and cons.
This course covers the political and business drivers for reducing CO2 emissions and introduces the various technologies being developed and researched. It is useful for anyone involved in the strategic planning and implementation of strategies to meet national, international, and company requirements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in power generation environments.
Target Audience
This training course is useful for all management levels and for anyone involved in the integration of low carbon power generation technologies into existing and future infrastructure.
You Will Learn
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You will learn how to:
- Define the terms "Climate Change" and "Global Warming"
- Explain the history of global temperature and carbon dioxide levels
- Describe the difference between 20 year and 100 year global warming effects
- Identify who are the authorities and governmental agencies
- Describe the effect of greenhouse emissions and associated risks to the environment
- Quantify the effects of global warming and the predicted infrastructure requirements
- Describe how global business is affected by climate change policies
- Describe the Life Cycle Assessment process
- List the various power production alternatives
- Describe traditional power generation techniques
- Describe turbines and boilers
- Describe waste heat recovery processes
- Impact of GHG emissions
- Sources and characteristics of industrial CO2‐containing emissions
- Basic approaches to CO2 capture
- Steps in the chain from Capture to Storage or Utilization
- Cost of CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage
- Drivers and Restrainers to deployment of CCUS
- Be able to explain the various methods of hydrogen production
- Understand the concept of green hydrogen production
- Discuss safety and integrity issues with hydrogen transportation and storage
- Understand biomass derived fuels
- Explain the application and development of solar thermal power plants
- Discuss the practical usage of Solar Power technologies in industrial and domestic applications
- Describe the development of Photovoltaic (PV) technology over time
- Discuss the design and application of HAWT and VAWT wind turbines
- Calculate required wind turbine capacity based on power needed
- Calculate power available from the wind
- Choose appropriate sites for wind turbine installations
- Identify the key differences between onshore and offshore wind turbine installations
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of offshore versus onshore wind turbines
- List the countries with the highest installed wind turbine‐based power generation capacity
- Describe the process of locating suitable sites for wind turbine installation
- Describe the construction process of installing offshore and onshore wind turbines
- Identify the various methods of energy storage for peak saving and capacity optimization
- Describe electric battery energy storage
- Describe grid storage considerations
- Describe liquid air energy storage
- Discuss compressed air energy storage
- Describe pumped power energy storage
- Describe gravity energy storage
- Understand the ‘real’ cost of renewable energy
- Gain a fundamental understanding of power supply and demand
- Gain a fundamental understanding of planning and costing of renewable energy