Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this engineering course on the thermodynamics, chemistry, and transport principles behind energy conversion and storage. Lectures and problem sets cover thermal, mechanical, chemical, and electrochemical processes in power and transportation systems, with attention to efficiency, performance, and environmental impact. Applications include fuel reforming, alternative fuels, hydrogen systems, fuel cells and batteries, combustion, catalysis, and combined or hybrid power cycles drawing on fossil, nuclear, and renewable resources. The course is aimed at students who already have a background in thermodynamics and want to apply it to real energy systems rather than learn the basics from scratch. As with other MIT OCW offerings, materials include course notes, assignments, and readings, free to access with no certificate offered. It sits within MIT's mechanical, chemical, and nuclear engineering curricula.