This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of battery science and engineering, specifically focusing on applications for renewable and sustainable energy systems. The course will emphasize topics such as materials, components, systems, electronics, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, kinetics, mass transfer, heat transfer, and engineering-related issues. Additionally, the course will include a detailed examination of both traditional and future battery technologies. Among traditional battery technologies are commonly used systems like lead-acid batteries, nickel-metal hydride batteries, and lithium-ion batteries. The focus will be on understanding the advantages and disadvantages of these technologies, their energy storage capacities, charge/discharge processes, and environmental impacts. Future battery technologies will encompass metal-air batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, solid-state batteries, and innovative solutions integrated with renewable energy sources. Understanding aspects such as energy storage efficiency, sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and industrial applicability of these technologies is a key objective of the course. Overall, the course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to comprehend the fundamental principles of battery technologies. It seeks to enable students to develop solutions that align with both current and future energy storage needs.

 To provide a foundation in electrochemical engineering which is
sufficient for understanding the basic phenomenon of batteries.
 To teach some fundamentals of battery and supercapacitor materials,
structure, systems, fabrication and engineering.
 To explore various types of batteries and their hybrids for sustainable
applications.
 To teach and train the students with basics, design and engineering
considerations for the relevant industrial applications