Brief Course Description
The goal of the course is to introduce students to concepts and tools for analyzing the hydrogen economy. As presently envisioned, hydrogen would be used as an alternative energy carrier to displace a significant proportion of petroleum use for transportation and provide electricity for stationary applications. A multidisciplinary set of tools is required to fully understand the large technical, societal and economic efforts and impacts associated with a shift to the hydrogen economy. This course will introduce these tools via a series of lectures on various topics (listed below). The class project will allow groups of students to utilize these tools to tackle specific areas within the broader range of H2 economy topics.

Credit: 4 units
Class time: Monday and Wednesday 9:30-11 AM (Special class Fri 10/29 10-11:30)
Class Room: Academic Surge - Room 2375

Work/Grading
33% Homework assignments
67% Hydrogen class project

Preliminary schedule

Week 1
10/4/04 1 Introduction to hydrogen pathways (Yang)
10/6/04 2 Hydrogen history and current uses - Why hydrogen? (Burke)
Week 2
10/11/04 3 Modeling hydrogen systems (Ogden)
10/13/04 4 Energy fundamentals (Yang)
Week 3
10/18/04 5 Fuel cell fundamentals (Yang)
10/20/04 6 Energy and infrastructure economics (Lipman)
Week 4
10/25/04 7 Hydrogen applications - vehicles (Burke)
10/27/04 8 Hydrogen applications - stationary & industrial (Ogden)
10/29/04 9 Life cycle assessments - energy and emissions (Delucchi)
Week 5
11/1/04 9 Hydrogen production - fossil fuels (Erickson)
11/3/04 10 H2, climate and CO2 sequestration (Yang)
Week 6
11/8/04 11 Hydrogen production - electrolysis and others (Erickson)
11/10/04 12 Hydrogen storage and delivery (Ogden)
Week 7
11/15/04 13 Hydrogen safety (Miller)
11/17/04 14 Hydrogen vehicle marketing - Early markets (Kurani)
Week 8
11/22/04 15 Hydrogen Policy Questions - California (Sperling)
11/24/04 16 The Hype/Hope about Hydrogen (Sperling)
Week 9
11/29/04 17 TBD
12/1/04 18 TBD
Week 10
12/6/04 19 Student Projects
12/8/04 20 Student Projects
Week 11
12/13/04 21 Student Projects
12/15/04 22 Student Projects