ME2023 RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY SYLLABUS R-2008

ME2023 RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY L T P C
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AIM:
To instruct the importance of renewable energy and its utilization for the thermal and electrical energy needs and also the environmental aspects of theses resources.

OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the course, the student expected to do Understand and analyze the pattern of renewable energy resources Suggest methodologies / technologies for its utilization
Economics of the utilization and environmental merits

UNIT I SOLAR ENERGY 9
Solar Radiation – Measurements of solar Radiation and sunshine – Solar Thermal Collectors – Flat Plate and Concentrating Collectors – Solar Applications – fundamentals of photo Voltaic Conversion – solar Cells – PV Systems – PV Applications.

UNIT II WIND ENERGY 9
Wind Data and Energy Estimation – wind Energy Conversion Systems – Wind Energy
generators and its performance – Wind Energy Storage – Applications – Hybrid systems.

UNIT III BIO - ENERGY 9
Biomass, Biogas, Source, Composition, Technology for utilization – Biomass direct combustion – Biomass gasifier – Biogas plant – Digesters – Ethanol production – Bio diesel production and economics.

UNIT IV OTEC, TODAL, GEOTHERMAL AND HYDEL ENERGY 9
Tidal energy – Wave energy – Data, Technology options – Open and closed OTEC Cycles – Small hydro, turbines – Geothermal energy sources, power plant and environmental issues.

UNIT V NEW ENERGY SOURCES 9
Hydrogen, generation, storage, transport and utilization, Applications : power generation, transport – Fuel cells – technologies, types – economics and the power generation

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOK:
1. G.D. Rai, Non Conventional Energy Sources, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 1999.
2. S.P. Sukhatme, Solar Energy, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, 1997.

1. Godfrey Boyle, Renewable Energy, Power for a Sustainable Future, Oxford University Press, U.K., 1996.
2. Twidell, J.W. & Weir, A., Renewable Energy Sources, EFN Spon Ltd., UK, 1986.
3. G.N. Tiwari, solar Energy – Fundamentals Design, Modelling and applications, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 2002.
4. L.L. Freris, Wind Energy Conversion systems, Prentice Hall, UK, 1990.

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