Renewable Energy Engineering: Solar, Wind And Biomass Energy Systems
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The official GTU curriculum for Renewable Energy Engineering: Solar, Wind And Biomass Energy Systems (subject code ME03030021) as prescribed for CE · Semester 3 divides the course into 11 units, covering 79 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 (ME03030021)Unit 1 Solar Energy
- An overview of thermal applications
- Solar radiation: Extraterrestrial solar radiation
- Components of radiation
- Geometry of the Earth and Sun, Geometry of collector and the solar beam
- Effects of the Earth’s atmosphere
- Measurements and estimation of solar radiation
- Practice problems of solar energy
Unit 2 Solar collector
- classification of solar collector
- Performance Indices
- Non-concentrating solar collectors: Liquid flat plate collector
- Material Selection
- Flat plate air heating collector
- Evacuated Tube Collector
- performance analysis
- transmissivity of the cover system
- overall loss coefficient and heat transfer correlation
- Collector efficiency factor
- collector heat removal factor
- Effect of Various Parameters on Performance
Unit 3 Parabolic solar collectors
- Modified Flat Plate Collector
- Compound Parabolic Concentrator
- Cylindrical Parabolic Concentrator
- Fixed Mirror Solar Concentrator
- Linear Fresnel Lens Collector
- Paraboloidal Dish Collector
- Hemispherical Bowl Mirror Concentrator
- Circular Fresnel Lens Concentrator
- Central Tower Receiver
- performance analysis, and loss calculation
Unit 4 Thermal energy storage systems
- sensible heat storage
- latent heat storage
- Thermochemical storage
- Photovoltaic generation
- Solar energy utilization methods
- problem-based on thermal energy storage
Unit 5 Wind power
- Factors Affecting the Distribution of Wind Energy on the Surface of Earth
- Estimation of Wind Energy at a Site
- Turbine types and terms
- Linear momentum and basic theory
- Dynamic matching
- Blade element theory
- Characteristics of the wind
- Power Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Chemical Engineering Course / Subject Code: ME03030021 Subject Name: Renewable Energy Engineering: Solar
- Wind And Biomass Energy Systems extraction by a turbine
- Electricity generation
- Mechanical power
- Application of wind power
- Examples based on wind power
Unit 6 Wind energy conversion
- Wind energy conversion system
- Wind diesel hybrid system
- system integration
- wind energy storage
- Environmental impact
- Characteristics and Power Generation from Wind Energy
- Practice problems
Unit 7 Biomass Energy
- Classification of energy resources
- Photosynthesis process
- Usable forms of biomass
- their composition and fuel properties
- Broad classification and compositional analysis
- Characteristics of biomass
- Physical and thermodynamic properties of biomass
- Properties and structural components of biomass
- biomass composition expression
Unit 8 Biomass conversion
- Biomass residues and energy conversion routes: Utilisation of biomass through biochemical and thermo-chemical routes
- Motivation for biomass conversion
Unit 9 Biogas
- Conversion mechanism of biomass to biogas and its properties
- Classification of biogas plants
- Practice problems Bioconversion: Bioconversion of substrates into alcohol
Unit 10 Thermo-chemical conversion
- Thermo-chemical methods such as torrefaction
- combustion and pyrolysis
- process stages
- process parameter impact and properties of product and technology involved
- Design consideration of torrefaction
Unit 11 Gasification
- process steps and types
- gasification process in reactor
- kinetics of gasification
- Models of gasification
- practice problems
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