Renewable Energy Engineering (2181910)

Unit-1:  Scenario of Renewable Energy Sources

Needs of renewable energy, advantages and limitations of RE, present energy scenario of conventional and RE sources

Unit-2:  Solar Energy

Energy available from the sun, spectral distribution, solar radiation outside the earth’s atmosphere and at the earth’s surface, solar radiation geometry, Instruments for solar radiation measurements, empirical equations for prediction of availability of solar radiation, radiation on tilted surface. Solar energy conversion into heat, types of solar collectors, evacuated and non-evacuated solar air heater, concentrated collectors, thermal analysis of liquid flat plate collector, air heater and cylindrical parabolic collector, solar energy thermal storage, heating and cooling of buildings, solar pumping, solar cooker, solar still, solar drier, solar refrigeration and air conditioning, solar pond, heliostat, solar furnace. Photo voltaic system for power generation, solar cell modules and arrays, solar cell types, material, applications, advantages and disadvantages.

Unit-3:  Wind Energy

Energy available from wind, basics of lift and drag, basics of wind energy conversion system, effect of density, angle of attack and wind speed, windmill rotors, horizontal and vertical axes rotors, drag, lift, torque and power coefficients, tip speed ratio, solidity of turbine, wind turbine performance curves, wind energy potential and site selection, basics of wind farm

Unit-4:  Bio Energy

Types of biogas plants, biogas generation, factors affecting biogas generation, advantages and disadvantages, biomass energy, energy plantation, gasification, types and applications of gasifiers

Unit-5:  Ocean Energy

OTEC principle, open, closed and hybrid cycle OTEC system, Energy from tides, estimation of tidal power, tidal power plants, single and double basin plants, site requirements, advantages and limitations, wave energy, wave energy conversion devices, advantages and disadvantages, ocean thermal energy Geothermal energy: Introduction, vapor and liquid dominated systems, binary cycle, hot dry rock resources, magma resources, advantages and disadvantages, applications MHD Power generation: concept and working principle

Unit-6:  Economic Analysis

Initial and annual cost, basic definitions, present worth calculations, repayment of loan in equal annual installments, annual savings, cumulative saving and life cycle cost, economic analysis of add on solar system, payback period, clean development mechanism

Sr.	Title	Author	Publication	Amazon Link
1	Solar Energy: Principles of Thermal Collection and Storage	S. P. Sukhatme & J. K. Nayak	McGraw-Hill
2	Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes,	John A. Duffie & William A. Beckman	John Wiley
3	Non-conventional energy resources	Shobh Nath Singh	Pearson
4	Solar Energy Engineering	Soteris Kalogirou	Elsevier/Academic Press
5	Principles of Solar Energy	Frank Krieth & John F Kreider	John Wiley