Energy Conservation & Management

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Code: 2742102 Credits: 4 Semester 4 M(E

Energy Conservation & Management

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Energy Conservation & Management Syllabus — Unit-wise Content

The official GTU curriculum for Energy Conservation & Management (subject code 2742102) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 4 divides the course into 4 units, covering 54 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.

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Unit 1 Energy conservation

10 lecture hours

  • Principles of energy conservation
  • Energy Conservation Act 2001 and its features
  • Electricity Act-2003 & its features
  • Energy consumption pattern
  • Resource availability
  • Energy pricing
  • Energy Security
  • Estimation of energy use in a building
  • Heat gain and thermal performance of building envelope - Steady and non-steady heat transfer through the glazed window and the wall - Standards for thermal performance of building envelope
  • Evaluation of the overall thermal transfer

Unit 2 Energy efficiency in thermal utilities

10 lecture hours

  • Energy efficiency in boilers
  • steam systems
  • cogeneration utilities
  • waste heat recovery
  • compressed air systems
  • HVAC&R systems
  • fans and blowers
  • cooling tower Energy efficiency in electrical utilities: Energy efficiency for electric motors
  • lighting systems
  • Characteristics of Light
  • Types of Lighting
  • Incandescent Lighting
  • Fluorescent Lighting
  • Vapor Lighting
  • Street Lighting
  • LED Lighting
  • Lighting Design
  • Light Dimming
  • Tips for Energy Conservation
  • Products for Energy Conservation in lighting system

Unit 3 Energy Audit

9 lecture hours

  • objective and principles of Energy Management
  • Need of Energy Audit and Management
  • types of energy audit
  • audit process
  • Guidelines for writing energy audit report
  • data presentation in report
  • findings recommendations
  • impact of renewable energy on energy audit recommendations and energy audit report
  • energy audit of building system
  • lighting system
  • HVAC system
  • Water heating system
  • heat recovery opportunities during energy audit
  • Industrial audit opportunities
  • Instruments for Audit and Monitoring Energy and Energy Savings

Unit 4 Energy Economics

9 lecture hours

  • Simple Payback Period
  • Time Value of Money
  • Internal Rate of Return
  • Net Present Value
  • Life Cycle Costing
  • Equivalent uniform annual cost (EUAC)
  • Life cycle cost
  • Discounting factor
  • Capital recovery

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