Syllabus

Course Code: B-PHY-S1    Course Name: (B) Renewable Energy & Energy Harvesting

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 FOSSIL FUELS, ALTERNATE SOURCES OF ENERGY AND SOLAR ENERGY
Fossil fuels and Nuclear Energy, theirlimitation, need of renewable energy, non-conventional energy sources. An overview ofdevelopments in Offshoredifferent 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.
2 OCEAN, GEOTHERMAL AND HYDRO ENERGY
Ocean Energy Potential against Wind and Solar, Wave Characteristicsand 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 impactof hydro power sources.
3 WIND AND PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING
Wind Energy harvesting;Fundamentals of Wind energy, Wind Turbines and differentelectrical machines in wind turbines, Power electronic interfaces, and gridinterconnection topologies.Piezoelectric Energy harvesting: Introduction, Physics and characteristics ofpiezoelectric effect, materials and mathematical description of piezoelectricity,piezoelectric parameters and modeling piezoelectric generators, piezoelectric energyharvesting applications.
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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