After completion of this course students
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have insight in the most important research methods for energy science and are able to apply them themselves.
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have insight in the strong and weak points of these research methods and understand the level of uncertainties in using them.
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can apply these research methods to analyse and evaluate options in the field of energy science.
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This course covers:
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Understanding and using the concept of technological learning for analyzing and prediction the development and performance of technologies over time
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Process analysis by setting up energy and mass balances and performance calculations of complex technologies, using principles from Life Cycle Assessment and process technology.
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Economic analyses of technologies and systems, using knowledge from cost engineering.
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Proper use of energy and other statistics for comparing and analyzing performance of e.g. economic sectors.
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Using Input/Output analysis as a tool to evaluate impacts on a national economy, e.g. impacts on GDP and employment generated by deploying different technologies
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Using life cycle assessment to analyse and evaluate the environmental performance of energy technologies.
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Using (simple) Multi-Criteria Analysis as a system to combine very different types of information to provide an integrated evaluation
This course is an entry requirement for:
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Internship Energy Science (SA) (GEO4-2509)
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Master’s thesis (GEO4-2510)
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Research Project SA (GEO4-2510) (old cohorts)
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Natural Science Research NS (GEO4-2511) (old cohorts)
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Energy Science Research NS (GEO4-2512) (old cohorts)
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Natural Science Research Project (GEO4-2518)
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Internship Energy Science (GEO4-2520)
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