Unit 1 Introduction

4 lecture hours

• Energy Use – Reserves of Energy Resources – Environmental Aspects Of Energy Utilization Renewable Energy Seasonal variations and availability
• Scenario In Gujarat
• India and Around The World – Potentials – Achievements / Applications
• Resources and features
• Hybrid energy systems Distributed energy systems and dispersed generation (DG)

Unit 2 SOLAR ENERGY

12 lecture hours

• Solar radiation spectrum
• Radiation measurement
• Applications: Heating
• Power generation Solar Photovoltaic Systems Operating principles
• Photovoltaic cell concepts
• Series and parallel connections
• Maximum power point tracking
• (MPPT) Applications: Battery charging
• Lighting Sizing residential systems Batteries and Inverters Suggested reading: 1
• “Non-Conventional Energy Sources”
• Khanna Publishers
• New Delhi
• “Renewable Energy Sources”
• EFN Spon Ltd., UK, 2006

Unit 5 C. S. Solanki, “Solar Photovoltaics

• Fundamental Applications and Technologies
• Prentice Hall of India

Unit 6 Godfrey Boyle, “Renewable Energy, Power For A Sustainable Future”, Oxford University

4 lecture hours

• Governmental incentives Grid connection issues 3 WIND ENERGY Types of Wind Energy Systems
• Comparison of Performance Site Selection
• Wind Data and Energy Estimation Details Of Wind Turbine Generator and comparison Safety and Environmental Aspects Grid Connection issues Governmental Incentives/policies Wind energy Potential and Installation in India. 10 20 4 BIOMASS Operating principles
• Combustion and fermentation
• Anaerobic digester
• Wood gasifier
• Applications: Biogas
• Wood stoves
• Bio diesel
• Combustion engine 4 10 5 OTHER RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES Tidal Energy
• Wave Energy
• Open And Closed OTEC Cycles Small Hydro Geothermal Energy Hydrogen And Storage Fuel Cell Systems 10 20 6 HYBRID SYSTEMS Need for Hybrid Systems Range and type of Hybrid systems Case studies of Diesel-PV
• Micro hydel PV, Biomass-Diesel systems
• electric and hybrid electric vehicles

Unit 7 COSTING

2 lecture hours

• Life cycle costing (LCC) Solar thermal system LCC Solar PV system LCC Micro hydel LCC Wind system LCC Biomass system LCC 7
• Solar Energy – “Fundamentals Design
• Modelling & Applications”
• Narosa Publishing House
• New Delhi

Unit 9 D. A. Spera, Wind Turbine Technology

• Fundamental concepts of Wind Turbine Engineering
• ASME Press