Renewable Energy Resources Syllabus

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OPEN ELECTIVES II LIST 2021-22

KOE-074 RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES 3L:0T:0P 3 Credits

Unit Topics Lectures


I Introduction: Various non-conventional energy resources- Introduction, 8
availability, classification, relative merits and demerits. Solar Cells:
Theory of solar cells. Solar cell materials, solar cell array, solar cell
power plant, limitations.
II Solar Thermal Energy: Solar radiation, flat plate collectors and their 8
materials, applications and performance, focussing of collectors and
their materials, applications and performance; solar thermal power
plants, thermal energystorage for solar heating and cooling, limitations.
III Geothermal Energy: Resources of geothermal energy, thermodynamics 8
of geo- thermal energy conversion-electrical conversion, non-electrical
conversion, environmental considerations. Magneto-hydrodynamics
(MHD): Principle of working of MHD Power plant, performance
and limitations. Cells: Principle of working of various types of
fuel cells and their working,
performance and limitations.
IV Thermo-electrical and thermionic Conversions: Principle of working, 8
performance and limitations. Wind Energy: Wind power and its
sources, site selection, criterion, momentum theory, classification of
rotors, concentrations and augments, wind characteristics.
Performance and limitations of energy conversion systems.
V Bio-mass: Availability of bio-mass and its conversion theory. Ocean 8
Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC): Availability, theory and working
principle, performance and limitations. Wave and Tidal Wave:
Principle of working, performance and limitations. Waste Recycling
Plants.

Text Book:

1. Raja etal, “Introduction to Non-Conventional Energy Resources” Scitech


Publications.
2. John Twideu and Tony Weir, “Renewal Energy Resources” BSP Publications, 2006.
3. M.V.R. Koteswara Rao, “Energy Resources: Conventional & Non-Conventional” BSP
Publications,2006.
4. D.S. Chauhan,”Non-conventional Energy Resources” New Age International.
5. C.S. Solanki, “Renewal Energy Technologies: A Practical Guide for Beginners” PHI
Learning.
6. Peter Auer, "Advances in Energy System and Technology". Vol. 1 & II Edited by
Academic Press.
7. Godfrey Boyle,“ Renewable Energy Power For A Sustainable Future”, Oxford
University Press.

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