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This 3 credit course covers non-conventional energy sources including solar energy, bio-fuels, wind power, tidal power, geothermal energy, and energy storage and distribution. The course provides an introduction to energy supply and demand in India and the world. It includes a detailed study of various non-conventional energy sources with a focus on applications in India. Students will learn about technologies such as solar water heating, photovoltaics, biomass utilization through combustion and pyrolysis, electricity generation from wind power, tidal power from tides, and geothermal energy from wells. The course also examines energy storage methods and fuel cell technologies.

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Tidal Power: Its Meaning, Causes of Tides and Their Energy Potential, Enhancement of

This 3 credit course covers non-conventional energy sources including solar energy, bio-fuels, wind power, tidal power, geothermal energy, and energy storage and distribution. The course provides an introduction to energy supply and demand in India and the world. It includes a detailed study of various non-conventional energy sources with a focus on applications in India. Students will learn about technologies such as solar water heating, photovoltaics, biomass utilization through combustion and pyrolysis, electricity generation from wind power, tidal power from tides, and geothermal energy from wells. The course also examines energy storage methods and fuel cell technologies.

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Course Code: CH415


Credit: 3
Version: 1
Prerequisite Course: Nil

Department: Chemical Engineering


Course Name: Non-Conventional Energy Sources
L-T-P: 3-0-0
Approved on:

Introduction: Energy scene of supply and demand in India and the world, energy
consumption in various sectors, potential of non-conventional energy resources.
Detailed study of the following sources with particular reference to India.
Solar Energy: Solar radiation and its measurement, limitations in the applications of
Solar Energy, Solar collectors types, and constructional details. Solar water heating,
applications of Solar Energy for heating, drying, space cooling, water desalination,
solar concentrators, photovoltaic power generation using silicon cells.
Bio-Fuels: Importance, combustion, pyrolysis and other thermo chemical processes for
biomass utilization. Alcoholic fermentation, anaerobic digestion for biogas production.
Wind Power: Principle of energy from wind, windmill construction and operational
details and electricity generation and mechanical power production.
Tidal Power: Its meaning, causes of tides and their energy potential, enhancement of
tides, power generation from tides and problems. Principles of ocean thermal energy
conversion (OTEC) analysis and sizing of heat exchangers for OTEC.
Geothermal Energy: Geo technical wells and other resources dry rock and hot aquifer
analysis , harnessing geothermal energy resources.
Energy Storage and Distribution: Importance, biochemical, chemical, thermal,
electric storage. Fuel cells, distribution of energy.
Books
1. Rai, G.D., Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Khanna Publishers, New
Delhi, 2001.
2. Sorenson, B, Renewable Energy, 3rd ed., Elsevier Science, 2004.
3. Twiddle, J. Weir, T. Renewable Energy Resources, Cambridge University
Press, 1986.
4. Kreith, F. and Kreider, J. F., Principles of Solar Engineering, McGraw Hill,
1978.
5. Duffie, J. A., Beckman, W. A., Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes,
John Wiley, 1980.
6. Veziroglu, N., Alternative Energy Sources, Volume 5 & 6, McGraw-Hill,
1978.
7. Sukhatme, S. P., Solar Energy: Principles of Thermal Collection and
Storage, 2nd ed., Tata McGraw-Hill, 2001.
8. Garg, H.P. and Prakash, J., Solar Energy: Fundamentals and Applications,
Tata McGraw-Hill, 2001.

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