Renewable Energy
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The official GTU curriculum for Renewable Energy (subject code ME01000151) as prescribed for E(SE · Semester 1 divides the course into 6 units, covering 66 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 (ME01000151)Unit 1 Introduction
- renewable and non-renewable sources
- Statistics of renewable energy availability in the world and in India
- Significance of renewable sources
- Techno–commercial aspects of various renewable technologies
- Energy Efficiency and Conservation
- Basic knowledge of Indian Electricity Grid Code
- Electricity Act2003
- MNRE and National Smart Grid Mission
Unit 2 Solar Energy
- Basic definitions and technical terms related with solar energy
- Applications of solar energy like water heating
- Passive and Active solar cooling
- Crop dying
- Cooking etc
- Solar thermal generation
- Solar Photovoltaic System (SPV): Solar collectors
- Operating principle and construction of PV Cell
- Equivalent circuit of cell
- Cells to modules to arrays
- Standard Test Conditions (STC) of photovoltaics
- Impacts of temperature and insolation
- Shading effect
- Bypass and blocking diode
- SPV Balance of System (BOS)
- Sizing and Designing a SPV System
- Power electronic converters for SPV Systems
- Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithms
- Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)
Unit 3 Wind Energy
- operating characteristics and schematic diagram of wind energy conversion system
- Types of wind power generators
- Limitations of constant speed wind generators
- Variable speed wind energy generators
- Control of isolated and grid- connected wind energy generators
- Onshore and Offshore wind farms
- Power system stability issues related to wind farms
- Wind Energy Physics: Components of Wind Turbine Generating System and its function
- Betz Limit
- Tip Speed Ratio
- Active and Passive Stall and Pitch Control
- Yaw control
- Performance Co- efficient
- Wind Power
- Power-Speed & Power-Torque Characteristics Wind Speed Statistics- Wind Energy Estimation
- Discrete Wind Histogram
- Wind Power Probability Density Functions
- Weibull and Rayleigh Statistics
Unit 4 Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells
- Characteristics and Applications of Hydrogen energy-based generation
- Introduction to fuel cells and characteristics
- Generation and storage of Hydrogen
- Program Name: Engineering Level: Masters Branch: Electrical Engineering Course / Subject Code: ME01000151 Course / Subject Name: Renewable Energy
Unit 5 Small Hydro Electric power plant
- operating principle and site selection of mini and micro hydropower plants
- case study of micro hydel plant
Unit 6 Other sources of Renewable Energy
- Biomass characteristics and their availability
- bioenergy extraction methods: anaerobic digestion
- Tidal generation
- Energy calculation in the tide
- Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
- Estimation of power associated with waves
- Challenges with wave energy
- Wave energy collecting devices
- Geothermal resources
- exploration of geothermal energy
- Geothermal systems
- Concepts of hybrid system: PV-wind system
- PV-hydro system
- Biomass-PV-Diesel system
- PV-solar thermal-grid connected system
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