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Sustainable Power Generation Systems
Prof. Pankaj Kalita · IIT Guwahati
About
The course content is designed to provide comprehensive knowledge of various renewable energy systems. Specifically, in this course, the design and analysis of renewable energy power plants will be discussed. The concepts will be illustrated with practical examples, schematics and block diagrams wherever required. A sufficient number of numerical problems with solutions will be discussed in the course. This course is specifically designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Energy Engineering and Technology. Further, the course will be very much useful for students and researchers from varied academic backgrounds for the synthesis of novel energy conversion devices and processes.
Intended audience: UG, PG, Doctorate students and renewable energy professionals
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of thermal science
Lectures
Week 1: Introduction to power generation methodology and Solar Thermal Power Generation
Week 2: Solar Thermal Power Generation
- Lec 3: Low temperature solar thermal power plant
- Lec 4: Medium and high temperature solar thermal power plant
- Lec 5: Thermal analysis of solar thermal power plant
Week 3: Solar PV Power Generation
- Lec 6: Fundamentals and concept of solar PV power plant
- Lec 7: Offgrid solar photovoltaic systems
- Lec 8: Offgrid solar photovoltaic systems design
- Lec 9: Grid connected solar photovoltaic systems
- Lec 10: Performance of grid connected solar photovoltaic systems
Week 4: Wind Power Generation
- Lec 11: Introduction to wind power generation
- Lec 12: Wind data analysis
- Lec 13: Performance parameters and blade geometry
- Lec 14: Betz limit and optimum tip speed ratio
- Lec 15:Design of wind farm
Week 5: Hydro Power Generation
Week 6: Biomass Power Generation
- Lec 18: Introduction to biomass power generation
- Lec 19: Biochemical conversion for electricity generation
- Lec 20: Thermochemical conversion of solid fuels and gasification system
Week 7: Hydrogen energy and fuel cells
- Lec 21: Hydrogen energy
- Lec 22: Fuel cells technologies - Part I
- Lec 23: Fuel cells technologies - Part II
- Lec 24: Hydrogen energy tutorial
Week 8: Geothermal Energy
- Lec 25: Fundamentals and methods of geothermal energy harvesting
- Lec 26: Analysis of geothermal plant and resources
Week 9: Ocean Thermal Energy
- Lec 27: Fundamentals and working of ocean thermal energy conversion systems
- Lec 28: Analysis of close rankine cycle OTEC system
Week 10: Tidal and Wave Energy
- Lec 29: Fundamentals and working of tidal energy conversion systems
- Lec 30: Fundamentals and working of wave energy conversion systems
Week 11: Energy Storage Systems
- Lec 31: Overview and analysis of thermal energy storage
- Lec 32: Fundamentals and analysis of mechanical energy storage system
- Lec 33: Fundamentals and analysis of electro chemical energy storage system
- Lec 34: Summary and numerical exercise
Week 12: Energy Economics
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Guwahati
- Department
- Multidisciplinary
- Teacher
- Prof. Pankaj Kalita
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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