Renewable Energy Engineering
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Renewable Energy Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Renewable Energy Engineering (subject code 2181910) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 8 divides the course into 5 units, covering 55 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 (2181910)Unit 1 Scenario of Renewable Energy (RE) Sources
- Needs of renewable energy
- advantages and limitations of RE, present energy scenario of conventional and RE sources
Unit 2 Solar Energy
- Energy available from the sun, spectral distribution
- solar radiation outside the earth’s atmosphere and at the earth’s surface
- solar radiation geometry
- Instruments for solar radiation measurements
- empirical equations for prediction of availability of solar radiation
- radiation on tilted surface solar energy conversion into heat
- types of solar collectors
- evacuated and non-evacuated solar air heater
- concentrated collectors
- thermal analysis of liquid flat plate collector
- air heater and cylindrical parabolic collector
- solar energy thermal storage
- heating and cooling of buildings
- solar pumping
- solar cooker
- solar still
- solar drier
- solar refrigeration and air conditioning
- solar pond
- solar furnace photovoltaic system for power generation
- solar cell modules and arrays
- solar cell types
- advantages and disadvantages
Unit 3 Wind Energy
- Energy available from wind
- basics of lift and drag
- basics of wind energy conversion system
- effect of density
- angle of attack and wind speed
- windmill rotors
- horizontal and vertical axes rotors
- torque and power coefficients
- tip speed ratio
- solidity of turbine
- wind turbine performance curves
- wind energy potential and site selection
- basics of wind farm
Unit 4 Bio Energy
- Types of biogas plants
- biogas generation
- factors affecting biogas generation
- advantages and disadvantages
- biomass energy
- energy plantation
- types and applications of gasifiers
Unit 5 Ocean Energy
- OTEC principle
- closed and hybrid cycle OTEC system
- Energy from tides
- estimation of tidal power
- tidal power plants
- single and double basin plants
- site requirements
- advantages and limitations
- Demonstration of following equipment should be given to the students
- (a) Solar water heater (b) Solar air heater (c) Pyranometer (d) Pyrhelioemeter (e) Solar PV system (f) Wind mill (g) Biogas plant (h) Gasifier (i) Solar cooker
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