CE-504 (C) · Renewable Energy Sources/Official Syllabus
Renewable Energy Sources (CE-504 (C)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Renewable Energy Systems
- Comparison of Conventional and nonconventional, renewable and non-renewable sources
- Statistics of world resources and data on different sources globally and in Indian context
- Significance of renewable sources and their exploitation
- Energy planning, Energy efficiency and management
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Unit 2
Wind Energy System, Small Hydro & Wave Energy
- Wind Energy, Wind Mills, Grid connected systems. System configuration, working principles, limitations
- Effects of wind speed and grid conditions
- Grid independent systems - wind-battery, wind- diesel, wind-hydro biomass etc. wind operated pumps, controller for energy balance
- Small Hydro System Grid connected system, system configuration, working principles, limitations
- Effect of hydro potential and grid condition
- Synchronous versus Induction Generator for stand alone systems
- Use of electronic load controllers and self excited induction generators
- Wave Energy System: System configuration: grid connected and hybrid Systems
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Unit 3
Solar Radiation & Biomass Energy System
- Extraterrestrial solar radiation, terrestrial solar radiation, Solar thermal conversion
- Solar Phototonic System Solar cell, Solar cell materials, efficiency, Characteristics of PV panels under varying insulation
- PV operated lighting and water pumps, characteristics of motors and pumps connected to PV panels
- Biomass Energy System: System configuration, Biomass engine driven generators, feeding loads in stand-alone or hybrid modes, Biomass energy and their characteristics
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Unit 4
Energy from Oceans & Geothermal Energy
- Ocean temperature difference, Principles of OTEC, plant operations
- Geothermal Energy
- Electric Energy from gaseous cells, Magneto-hydro generated energy, Non hazardous energy from nuclear wastes, Possibilities of other modern nonconventional energy sources
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Unit 5
Electric Energy Conservation
- Energy efficient motors and other equipment
- Energy saving in Power Electronic controlled drives
- Electricity saving in pumps, airconditioning, power plants, process industries, illumination etc.
- Methods of Energy Audit
- Measurements systems; efficiency measurements. energy regulation, typical case studies, various measuring devices analog and digital, use of thyristers
Reference Books
- Renewable Energy Resources — John Twidell, Toney Weir — E & F N Spon
- Power Plant Technology — El-Wakil — McGraw Hill
- Non-conventional Energy Resources — Rai G D — Khanna
- Energy-Efficient Electric Motor & their Application-II — Howard E. Jordan — Plenum Press, New York USA
- Wind Energy Resource Survey in India-Ill — Anna Mani — Allied Publishers Ltd., New Delhi
- Solar Energy — S.P. Sukhatme — TMH- 4e
- TERI Energy Data Directory & Year book 1994-95 — Dr. A. Ramachandran, Prof B.V Sreekantan, M F.C. Kohli — Teri Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi
- Renewable Energy Technologies — Solanki — PHI Learning
- Non Conventional Energy Resources — Sawhnew — PHI Learning
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