Energy and Environmental Group …

Engineering
Green Energy Generation
What is Energy and Environmental Engineering?

❖ They specialize on how to efficiently use the earth’s energy and natural resources.
❖ They are two separate branches of engineering
❖ Energy Engineering primarily focuses on obtaining and effectively using energy

❖ Environmental Engineering focuses on how to use the renewable resources

without destroying the earth’s environment

❖ Despite having different jobs, both branches are interdependent with one another.
Benefits on this field of Engineering:
❖ By practicing cleanliness around our environment, we are not only
helping mother earth but also our future
❖ Cleaner places means having a better lifestyle
❖ Less pollution in big cities
❖ Practicing this type of engineering can make a cleaner, safer, and
better place to live in around the world
❖ By using the earth’s renewable resources, the environment will
remain untouched and can also fight climate change
 Previous Sources for Energy

❖ Windmills or Wind Turbines

❖ Used to generate electricity for
remote rural ares
❖ This is the Appleton Edison
Light Company

❖ Known to be the world’s first

hydroelectric plant

❖ Began operation September 30, 1882

in Appleton, Wisconsin

❖ Manufactured by H.J. Rogers

❖ This is the Obninsk
Nuclear Power Plant
❖ The world’s first nuclear
power plant
❖ Up and running on the
26th of June 1954 and
was decommissioned on
the 29th of April 2002
The Windmills

Current Technologies of
the Previous Inventions
❖ Today, windmills are currently
stronger, sleeker, and has a better
design compared to the previous
versions from the past
❖ They are most likely to be found in
farms or near bodies of water
Solar Panels

The solar panels are not only sturdy, but

also efficient when it comes to producing
electricity. It collects sunlight and uses it
as electricity for a house, building, or
anything that needs electricity.
Hydroelectric Power Plants

❖ Current plants have a bigger capacity

for their water compared to previous
models
❖ The image above is the Grand Coulee
hydroelectric power plant
❖ It ranks at the number 1 of the Largest
U.S. electricity generation facilities
(power plants) by electricity
generating capacity
Nuclear Power plants

❖ This is the Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant

❖ The second largest electricity generating power
plant in the U.S., just behind Grand Coulee
hydroelectric power plant.
Windmills

The Future Plans for

Better Facilities of
Energy Sources
❖ Engineers are trying to make better
windmills and more cost effective
products to maximize the production
of energy
❖ They are also trying to make better
designs to suite the environment
would also minimize the cost of
repairs
Transparent Solar Panels

❖ Engineers are trying to develop a

transparent luminescent solar
concentrator that could generate solar
energy on any clear surface without
affecting the view
Future for Hydroelectric Energy
❖ Developing a comprehensive set
❖ By inventing new pumped-storage hydropower
of science-based environmental
technology, it can further integrate variable
performance metrics and
generation resources, such as wind and solar, into the
assessment tools will further the
national power grid because of its ability to provide design and sustainable operation
grid flexibility, reliability and reserve capacity of hydropower projects.
Floating Nuclear Power Plant

❖ Very low environmental impact

❖ It can be built at a factory or shipyard,
eliminating the need to set up a special
site for its construction
❖ Dismantling can be done in a
specialised site
❖ Just the same as the one on land, but
the main difference is that it is portable
and constantly moving
 Conclusion
❖ These engineers are important in today’s society
because without them, we would not be able to utilize
the earth’s renewable resources for power

❖ There are so many things left for use to discover

❖ Every year that goes by, new and better inventions are
being discovered by the energy and environmental
engineers
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only
change from one form to another.”

–Albert Einstein