Course

Unit I

Fossil fuels and Alternate Sources of energy: Fossil fuels and Nuclear Energy, their limitation, need of renewable energy, non-conventional energy sources. An overview of developments in Offshore Wind Energy, Tidal Energy, Wave energy systems, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, solar energy, biomass, biochemical conversion, biogas generation, geothermal energy tidal energy, Hydroelectricity.

Unit II

Solar energy: Solar energy, its importance, storage of solar energy, solar pond, non convective solar pond, applications of solar pond and solar energy, solar water heater, flat plate collector, solar distillation, solar cooker, solar green houses, solar cell, absorption air conditioning. Need and characteristics of photovoltaic (PV) systems, PV models and equivalent circuits, and sun tracking systems.

Unit III

Wind Energy harvesting: Fundamentals of Wind energy, Wind Turbines and different electrical machines in wind turbines, Power electronic interfaces, and grid interconnection topologies.

Ocean Energy: Ocean Energy Potential against Wind and Solar, Wave Characteristics and Statistics, Wave Energy Devices.

Tide characteristics and Statistics, Tide Energy Technologies, Ocean Thermal Energy, Osmotic Power, Ocean Bio-mass.

Unit IV

Geothermal Energy: Geothermal Resources, Geothermal Technologies.

Hydro Energy: Hydropower resources, hydropower technologies, environmental impact of hydro power sources.

Piezoelectric Energy harvesting: Introduction, Physics and characteristics of piezoelectric effect, materials and mathematical description of piezoelectricity, Piezoelectric parameters and modeling piezoelectric generators, Piezoelectric energy harvesting applications, Human power

Unit V

Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting: Linear generators, physics mathematical models, recent applications.
Carbon captured technologies, cell, batteries, power consumption
Environmental issues and Renewable sources of energy, sustainability.

OBJECTIVE: To enable students to understand the use of different sources of energy.

Course outcomes:

1. Understand the need of energy conversion and the various methods of energy storage.
2. Explain the field applications of solar energy.
3. Identify Winds energy and Tidal energy as alternate form of energy and to know how it can be tapped.
4. Ability to explain the Geothermal and Hydro energy, its mechanism of production and its applications.
5. Ability to explain the electro-magnetic energy harvesting and its application.

CO – PO Mapping

REFERENCES:

1)Non-conventional energy sources – G.D Rai – Khanna Publishers, New Delhi

2) Solar energy – M P Agarwal – S Chand and Co. Ltd.

3) Solar energy – Suhas P Sukhative Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd.

4) Godfrey Boyle, “Renewable Energy, Power for a sustainable future”, 2004, Oxford University Press, in association with The Open University.

5) Dr. P Jayakumar, Solar Energy: Resource Assessment Handbook, 2009

6) J.Balfour, M.Shaw and S. Jarosek, Photovoltaics, Lawrence J Goodrich (USA).

7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy