Teaching & Outreach

Courses:

  • Water-Energy Nexus (ENVE 377 / CENG 377)

This course explores processes and technologies at the water-energy nexus. We utilize chemical and environmental engineering fundamentals to explore thelinks between maintaining clean water supply and energy security globally, as well as implications for environmental contamination and climate change. We develop a quantitative understanding of water chemistry and energy considerations for topics including traditional water and wastewater treatment, energy recovery from wastewater, membrane processes, water electrolysis for energy storage and electrochemical contaminant conversion, industrial water consumption and wastewater production, underground water sources and water for oil and gas, opportunities for reuse of nontraditional source waters and contaminant valorization, and considerations for decentralization, resilience, and electrification. Quantitative understanding of these processes is attained based on mass and energy balances, systems engineering, thermodynamics, and kinetics.

  • Engineering Solutions to Climate Change (ENAS 664 / ENVE 464 / CENG 464)

Current industrial processes that supply essential materials and energy for modern society emit greenhouse gases that drive climate change. This course develops a framework based on mass and energy balances, thermodynamics of energy conversions and chemical reactions, catalytic surface reactions, and electrochemistry to evaluate current approaches for manufacturing chemicals and storing energy and to engineer sustainable alternatives as climate change solutions. Topics include contributions of the chemical industry and fuels to climate change, renewable energy transition, survey of major chemical manufacturing processes, CO2 storage and utilization, resilient processes, and other emerging chemical manufacturing and energy storage solutions to mitigate climate change. 

Education & Outreach:

  • Yale Pathways Summer Scholars high school students tour the lab (July 2023)  
  • Prof. Winter presents new courses at workshop on “The Next Professional Challenge for AEESP: Mobilizing Our Universities for Education on Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and Climate Change” (June 2023)