NPRE 498

Fall 2012 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 27-Dec 12

Special Topics

Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

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NPRE 498 class schedule data for fall 2012
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
56076	Lecture-Discussion	ES1	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	Talbot Laboratory	Miley, G Ragheb, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Energy Systems Storage Section Info: Provides comprehensive coverage of energy storage for nuclear, automotive and renewable engineering. The necessity for efficient energy storage; storage in automotive, consumer, nuclear and green industries; battery technologives including primary and secondary electrochemical cells; lead acid, nickel based, Li-ion batteries; advanced battery systems, mechanical energy storage; thermal and chemical storage; inductive storage based on superconducting magnetic field; social and economical aspects of storage technology, specific new developments in storage. The course project is building a rechareable battery for a wind turbine. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
56078	Lecture-Discussion	ES4	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	Talbot Laboratory	Miley, G Ragheb, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Energy Storage Systems Section Info: Provides comprehensive coverage of energy storage for nuclear, automotive and renewable engineering. The necessity for efficient energy storage; storage in automotive, consumer, nulcear and green industries; batter technologies including primary and secondary electrochemical cells; lead acid, nickel based, Li-ion batteries; advanced battery systems; hydrogen electrochemical cells and regenerative fuel cells including hydride storages; mechanical energy storage; thermal and chemical storage; inductive storage based on superconducting magnetic field; social and economical aspects of storage technology, specific new developments in storage. The course project is building a rechareable battery for a wind turbine. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60865	Lecture-Discussion	NS1	4:00PM -5:50PM	MTWR	Noyes Laboratory	Beghini, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-09/27/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Nuclr Sys: Mech Design Anlys Section Info: Predictions of the mechanical behavior of materials and simple structures using various analysis techniques. Principles involved will be typical of those encountered in designing complex thermo-mechanical systesm such as nuclear plants. Outocmes of various modelling approaches will be compared to results from classroom experiments. Fracture analysis will be covered. Course will develop techniques for prediction of the strength for notched and cracked components. Development of elementary numberical models to perform and examine lab tests with simple structures made by polymeric materials under static loads. Students are expected to have basic physics, calculus, and computer science courses as well as a basic course covering materials strength. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
60866	Lecture-Discussion	NS4	4:00PM -5:50PM	MTWR	Noyes Laboratory	Beghini, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-09/27/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Nuclr Sys: Mech Design Anlys Section Info: Predictions of the mechanical behavior of materials and simple structures using various analysis techniques. Principles involved will be typical of those encountered in designing complex thermo-mechanical systms such as nuclear plants. Outcomes of various modelling approaches will be compared to results from classroom experiments. Fracture analysis will be covered. Course will develop techniques for prediction of the strength for notched and cracked components. Development of elementary numerical models to perform and examine lab tests with simple structures made by polymeric materials under static loads. Students are expected to have basic physics, calculus, and computer science courses as well as a basic course covering materials strength. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60327	Lecture-Discussion	NSF	3:30PM -5:20PM	R	Talbot Laboratory	Kaminski, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Nucl Separ & Fuel Reprocessing Section Info: Radionuclide separations are the basis for recycling of nuclear fuel. This class will cover the chemistry and engineering of nuclear separations as used in reprocessing. Students will learn the basics of f-element and fission product chemistry; mathematical algoritms of reprocessing schemes; past, current, and developing reprocessing schemes; and the unit operations of reprocessing. Lessons learned from reprocessing accidents will be covered. The student will be expected to have completed basic collegiate chemistry, i.e. General Chemistry. After completing this class, the student will understand the chemical and engineering bases behind reprocessing schemes past and present. NPRE undergraduates in the power concentration may use credit in this course towards their technical electives.