Syllabus
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Course Code: SEC- 401 Course Name: (B) Renewable Energy & Energy Harvesting |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | FOSSIL FUELS, ALTERNATE SOURCES OF ENERGY AND SOLAR ENERGY Fossil fuels and Nuclear Energy, their limitation, need of renewable energy, non-conventional energy sources. An overview of developments in Offshore different types of 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. |
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| 2 | OCEAN, GEOTHERMAL AND HYDRO 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. Geothermal Energy: Geothermal Resources, Geothermal Technologies. Hydro Energy: Hydropower resources, hydropower technologies, environmental impact of hydro power sources. |
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| 3 | WIND AND PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING Wind Energy harvesting; Fundamentals of Wind energy, Wind Turbines and different electrical machines in wind turbines, Power electronic interfaces, and grid interconnection topologies. 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. |
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| 4 | 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 |
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