5024: Alternate Energy Sources and Management KL Diploma Syllabus for ME 5th Sem 2015 Revision SITTTR

Alternate Energy Sources and Management detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (ME) for 2015 revision curriculum has been taken from the SITTTRs official website and presented for the ME students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Mechanical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ME 5th Sem 2015 revision scheme. The detailed syllabus of alternate energy sources and management is as follows.

Course Outcomes:

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SPECIFIC OUTCOME

MODULE I

1. Introduction to Energy Sources
   1. Understand the Major sources of energy: Renewable and Non-renewable
   2. Define Primary and Secondary energy sources.
   3. Explain the Energy scenario: Understand the Prospects of alternate energy sources.
   4. Understand the Need of alternate energy sources.
   5. List the Energy Conservation Techniques
2. Understand the Distribution of energy consumption
   1. List the Principles of energy conservation.
   2. Define Energy audit and give its classifications
   3. Define Cogeneration and its application
   4. Define Combined cycle system
3. Understand the Concept of energy management
   1. Explain the different energy management techniques like
      1. Analysis of input
      2. Reuse and recycling of waste
      3. Energy education
      4. Conservative technique and energy audit.

MODULE II

1. Understand the Solar Energy
   1. Define Solar Radiation: Solar radiations at earth’s surface, Solar Radiation Geometry: Declination, Hour angle, altitude angle, incident angle, zenith angle, solar azimuth angle
   2. Understand the Principle of conversion of solar energy into heat and electricity
   3. Explain the Construction and working of typical flat plate collector and solar concentrating collectors and their applications
   4. Explain the Applications of solar energy
      1. Space heating and cooling.
      2. Photovoltaic electric conversion.
      3. solar distillation, Solar cooking and furnace.
      4. solar pumping and Green house.
      5. Agriculture and Industrial process heat.(No derivations and numerical)
   5. Illustrate the solar Power Stations and solar desalination plants
   6. List their limitations

MODULE III

1. Understand the Wind Energy and its uses
   1. Define power in wind, available wind power formulation, Power coefficient, Maximum Power
   2. Understand the basic principle of wind energy conversion.
   3. List the main considerations in selecting a site for wind mills.
   4. List the advantages and limitations of wind energy conversion.
   5. Classify the wind mills.
   6. Explain the Construction and working of horizontal and vertical axis wind mills, their comparison
   7. List the main applications of wind energy like power generation, WEG, pumping and wind farm.
2. Understand the Energy from Biomass
   1. List the Common species recommended for biomass.
   2. Understand the methods for obtaining energy from biomass
   3. Define Pyrolysis, Gasification, Hydrogenation.
   4. List the applications of gasifier
   5. Explain the bio diesel production and its applications
   6. Illustrate agriculture waste as a biomass
   7. Explain the biomass digester
   8. Compare biomass with conventional fuels

MODULE IV

1. Understand the use of Geothermal Energy
   1. Explain the Geothermal Energy- Dry rock system, Wet rock system,
   2. Explain the Geo thermal Power plant and its function
   3. List the principal parts and limitations
   4. Understand the Applications of MHD System – Magneto Hydro Dynamic –
   5. State its Principle
   6. List the Common Gases –
   7. Explain the MHD power plant and its components
   8. List their limitations and applications
2. Explain the working of Fuel Cells – H2- O2 fuel cell
   1. List the advantages, limitations and applications

MODULE I

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MODULE II

Solar Energy Solar radiations at earth’s surface – solar radiation geometry – declination – hour angle – altitude angle -incident angle – zenith angle – solar azimuth angle – principle of conversion of solar energy into heat and electricity – construction and working of typical flat plate collector and solar concentrating collectors – applications – solar energy – applications – space heating – cooling – photovoltaic electric conversion -solar distillation solar cooking – furnace – solar pumping – green house – agriculture industrial process heat.(No derivations and numerical) – solar power stations – solar desalination plants – limitations

MODULE III

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MODULE IV

Geothermal Energy Geothermal energy – dry rock – wet rock – geo thermal power plant -function – principal parts -limitations Understand the applications of MHD system – magneto hydro dynamic -principle – common gases -MHD power plant – components – limitations – applications Fuel Cells – H2- O2 fuel cell Advantages – limitations – applications

Text Books:

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Reference Books:

1. Non conventional Energy sources- G.D.Rai (Khanna Publication)
2. Solar Energy- S.P.Sukhatme (Tata McGraw Hill)
3. Solar Energy- H.P,Garg (Tata McGraw Hill)
4. Power Plant Engineering- Arrora, Domkundwar (Dhanpat Rai & Co)

For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Mechanical Engineering, 2015 revision curriculum do visit ME 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2015 revision.

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