ME-556 RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
Credit Hours = 3
COURSE CONTENT
- Introduction: Comparison of different forms of energy, National and global patterns of energy supply and utilization, Temperature and other climate impacts
- Solar Energy: Solar radiation, Passive and active solar thermal energy, Solar thermal applications: water and space heating; solar ponds, dryers, distillation, Solar thermal electric systems, Photovoltaic cells, batteries and inventors. Photovoltaic systems and applications.
- Wind Energy: Wind resources and characteristics, Wind machinery and generating systems, Wind turbine types; horizontal axis and vertical axis, Betz conditions, Effects of solidity, Controlling and optimizing wind turbine performance
- Hydropower: Basic energy conversion principle, Conversion equipment and engineering operations, Hydraulic machine types: positive displacement and dynamic, Affinity laws and specific speed related to rotodynamic machines.
- Biomass Energy: Biomass resources, Biofuels production, Chemical and physical properties relevant to energy production, Thermal conversion of biomass, Biochemical conversion; anaerobic digestion, fermentation to alcohol. Physical processing; briquetting, Combustion process, Use of biomass derived fuels.
- Geothermal Power: Geophysics of the earth’s interior, Hydrothermal and geopressured systems, Equipment for recovering energy, Direct heat utilization and electric power generation.
- Wave & Tidal Energy: Energy from tides, waves, and temperature differences, Economic prospects, Environmental and sustainability considerations, types of equipment for extracting wave and tidal energy.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
(01) Renewable Energy Resources by John Twidelland & Tony Weir
(02) Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future by Godfrey Boyle
