Renewable Energy Technology
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The official GTU curriculum for Renewable Energy Technology (subject code BE05009051) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 5 divides the course into 7 units, covering 62 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05009051)Unit 1 Renewable Energy
- Conventional energy Sources and its Impacts
- Non-conventional energy– Sources
- Seasonal variations and availability
- Principles of renewable energy
- energy and sustainable development
- worldwide renewable energy scenario
- renewable energy availability in India
- Distributed energy systems and dispersed generation (DG)
Unit 2 Solar Energy
- Solar Radiation
- Estimation of solar radiation on horizontal and inclined surfaces
- Solar radiation Measurements- Pyrheliometers
- Sunshine Recorder
- Solar Thermal systems: Flat plate collector
- Solar distillation
- Solar pond electric power plant
- Solar electric power generation- Principle of Solar cell
- Photovoltaic system for electric power generation
- Disadvantages and applications of solar photovoltaic system
- Effects of Shadowing-Partial and Complete Shadowing
- Series and parallel connections
- Cell mismatching
- Maximum power point tracking
Unit 3 Wind Energy
- Properties of wind
- availability of wind energy in India
- wind velocity and power from wind
- major problems associated with wind power
- Basic components of wind energy conversion system (WECS)
- Classification of WECS. wind turbine control systems
- conversion to electrical power: Generators used in WECS
Unit 4 Biomass Energy
- Photosynthesis Process
- Biomass Resources
- Biomass conversion technologies-fixed dome
- Urban waste to energy conversion
- Biomass gasification (Downdraft)
- Geothermal energy: Introduction
- Nature of geothermal fields
- Geothermal resources
- Hydrothermal (convective) Resources
- Geo pressured resources
- Hot dry rock resources of petro-thermal systems
- Magma resources- Interconnection of geothermal fossil systems
- Advantages and disadvantages of geothermal energy over other energy forms
Unit 5 Tidal Power
- Tides and waves as energy suppliers and their mechanics
- fundamental characteristics of tidal power
- harnessing tidal energy
- advantages and limitations
- Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion: Principle of working
- OTEC power stations in the world
- problems associated with OTEC
- Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Electrical Engineering Subject Code: BE05009051 Subject Name: Renewable Energy Technology
Unit 6 Green Energy
- Fuel cells: Classification of fuel cells
- Operating principles of fuel cells
- Benefits of hydrogen energy
- hydrogen production technologies (electrolysis method only)
- hydrogen energy storage
- applications of hydrogen energy
- problem associated with hydrogen energy
Unit 7 Energy Storage System
- Basic Battery Theory
- Battery Fundamental Characteristics
- Different Types of Battery Arrangement
- Classification of Batteries
- Advantages of Batteries for Bulk Energy Storage
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