Course Introduction to "Renewable Energy Sources" at PITS, Thanjavur

1. RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE
sem:VIII,EEE
S.PRAKASH
LECT/ EEE
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2. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UNIT - 1 ENERGY SCENARIO
 Classification of energy sources
UNIT - 2  Energy needs of India
UNIT - 3
UNIT - 4
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3. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UNIT - 1 ENERGY SCENARIO
UNIT - 2  Energy and its environmental impacts – Global
environmental concern
 Concept of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)-
UNIT - 3
 purpose of the CDM is to promote clean development
in developing countries
UNIT - 4
 Prototype Carbon Funds (PCF)
UNIT -5
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4. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UNIT - 1 SOLAR ENERGY
 Solar thermal Systems
UNIT - 2
 Types of collectors
 Applications
UNIT - 3
 Photo Voltaic (PV) technology
UNIT - 4
 Characteristics of PV systems
UNIT - 5
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5. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UNIT - 1 WIND ENERGY
 Wind speed and power relation
UNIT - 2
 Power extracted from wind
 Types of Turbine
UNIT - 3
 Turbine rating
UNIT - 4
 Choice of generators
UNIT - 5
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6. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UNIT - 1 OTHER ENERGY SOURCES
 Biomass – Various resources-wood, agro waste
and industrial wastes.
UNIT - 2  Conversion tech:
i) Combustion
ii) biogas production
UNIT - 3 iii) Waste to energy conversion
iv) Gasification and pyrolysis
v) fermentation
 Hydro energy
UNIT - 4  Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems
UNIT - 5
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7. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY STORAGE AND HYBRID SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS
UNIT - 1
 Battery
UNIT - 2  Types –lead acid, Nas ,ni-cd, etc
 Performance characteristics
UNIT - 3
 Benefits over battery
 Fuel cell -energy-generates
UNIT - 4
electricity by a chemical
reaction.
 Storage systems
UNIT - 5
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8. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UNIT - 1 TEXT BOOKS
1. Rai, G. D., “Non Conventional Energy
Sources”, Khanna Publishers, 1993.
2. Rao S. Paruklekar, “Energy Technology – Non
UNIT - 2 Conventional, Renewable and
Conventional”, Khanna Publishers, 1999.
REFERENCES
1. Openshaw Taylor, E., “Utilisation of Electric
UNIT - 3 Energy in SI Units.”, Orient Longman Ltd,2007.
2. Uppal, S.L., “Electric Power”, 13th Edition,
Khanna Publishers, 1997.
3. Mukund R. Patel, “Wind and Solar Power
Systems”, CRC Press LLC, 1999.
UNIT - 4
4.s.sindhuja, “Renewable energy sources”,
Anuradha publications LLC, 2011.
UNIT - 5
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9. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UNIT - 1
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
UNIT - 2
Equivalent circuit for PV system
Variable speed operation
UNIT - 3
Kyoto protocol
UNIT - 4 Grid connected operation
UNIT - 5
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10. EE1451 RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
UNIT - 1 SEMINAR TOPICS
UNIT - 2
Wind and Solar Energy in India
Photovoltaic technology
UNIT - 3
Biomass
UNIT - 4 Basics storage system
UNIT - 5
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