Photo Voltaic & Solar Thermal Systems Detailed Syllabus for Mechatronics M.Tech first year first sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Photo Voltaic & Solar Thermal Systems M.Tech 2017-2018 (R17) first year first sem is as follows.
M.Tech. I Year I Sem.
Unit-I : Solar Radiation and Measurements : Solar radiation – Energy Balance, Earth sun-angles-Types of Radiation, Measurements, solar Charts-Empirical equations for predicting the availability of solar radiation – Computation of radiation on inclined surfaces- Solar radiation data
Unit-II : Photovoltaic Fundamentals: Place of PV in energy supply – PV Modules and cost-review of semiconductor physics and Operating principle-–Introduction to P-N junction: Equilibrium and non equilibrium conditions-Design of solar cells: Cell parameters limits-Losses in solar cells-Solar cell design for high Isc,, Voc and FF.
Unit-III : Solar cell technologies: Si wafer based solar cell: Process of solar cell technology-Efficiency of Si cells; Thin film technologies: Materials-deposition techniques-Amorphous Si cells- Cadmium telluride celss-Thin film crystalline and poly crystalline Si cells-concentrator technologies-Optics for concentrators PV-Tracking requirements-High concentrator solar cells-Emerging solar cell technologies.
Unit-IV : PV module and PV System applications: Solar PV modules-Mismatch in series and parallel connection-design & structure of PV modules-PV module power output-Batteries for PV systemsDC to DC and DC to AC converters-charge controllers MPPT; Stand alone PV systems-Design methodology of PV systems-Wire sizing in PV systems-Grid connected and hybrid PV systems
Unit-V : Solar Thermal Systems and applications: Solar Flat plate collectors, Concentrating Collectors, Compound Parabolic Collector, Collector Efficiency. Solar water heating Systems, Solar Cookers, Solar Dryers and Industrial Process heating.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
- Generating Electricity from the Sun/Edited by Fred C. Treble/Pergamon Press
- Solar photovoltaics-Fundamentals, technologies and Applications/Chetan Singh Solanki/PHI Learning private Ltd. New Delhi
- Terrestrial Solar photovoltaics/Tapan Bhattacharya/Narosa Publishing House
- Solar Electricity /Edited by Tomas Markvart/John Wiley and Sons
- Solar Cells – Operating Principles, Technology and System Applications /Martin A. Green/Prentice Hall Inc
- Modelling Photovoltaic Systems using P Spice/Luis Castaner and Santiago Silvestre/John Wiley and Sons
- Solar Energy – Fundamentals and Applications/H.P. Garg and J. Prakash / Tata McGraw-Hill
- Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells/K. Takahashi and M. Konagai/North Oxford Academic
- Photovoltaic Systems Engineering/Roger Messenger/CRC Press
For all other M.Tech 1st Year 1st Sem syllabus go to JNTUH M.Tech Mechatronics 1st Year 1st Sem Course Structure for (R17) Batch.
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