4th Sem, Petro

Renewable Energy Resources & Systems Petro 4th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme

Renewable Energy Resources & Systems detail syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (Petro), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17PC46), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other petro 4th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Petro 4th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for renewable energy resources & systems is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course enables students to

  • Provide an overview of the promising areas of new and renewable sources of energy.
  • Provide analysis of energy conversion, utilization and storage for renewable technologies.

Module 1
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Module 2

Solar Energy: Solar radiation: measurements and prediction. Solar thermal collectors- flat plate collectors, concentrating collectors. Basic theory of flat plate collectors, solar heating of buildings, solar still, solar water heaters, solar driers; conversion of heat energy in to mechanical energy, solar thermal power generation systems. Solar Photovoltaic: Principle of photovoltaic conversion of solar energy, types of solar cells and fabrication. Photovoltaic applications : battery charger, domestic lighting, street lighting, water pumping, power generation schemes.

Module 3

Wind Energy: Atmospheric circulations, classification, factors influencing wind, wind shear, turbulence, wind speed monitoring, Betz limit, WECS: classification, characteristics, and applications

Module 4
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Module 5

Other Sources: Hydropower, Nuclear fission and fusionGeothermal energy: Origin, types of geothermal energy sites, site selection, geothermal power plants; Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) energy conversion.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course students are able to understand of environmental consequences of energy conversion and how renewable energy can reduce air pollution and positively affect the global climate change.

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

  1. Engineering Knowledge
  2. Problem Analysis
  3. Design/development of solutions (Partly)
  4. Interpretation of data.

Question paper pattern:

  • The question paper will have ten questions.
  • Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
  • There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
  • Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
  • The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Text Books:

  1. Non-Conventional Energy Sources, G.D. Rai, 4th Edition, Khanna Publications, Second Reprint, 1997.

Reference Books:

  1. D. Y. Goswami, F. Kreith and J. F. Kreider, Principles of Solar Engineering, Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia, 2000.
  2. C. S. Solanki, Solar Photovoltaics: Fund amental Applications and Technologies, Prentice Hall of India, 2009.
  3. L.L. Freris, Wind Energy Conversion Systems, Prentice Hall, 1990.
  4. D. A. Spera, Wind Turbine Technology: Fundamental concepts of Wind Turbine Engineering, ASME Press.
  5. S.P. Sukhatme, Solar Energy: principles of Thermal Collection and Storage, Tata McGraw-Hill (1984).

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Petro, 2017 scheme do visit Petro 4th Sem syllabus for 2017 scheme.

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