The author feel great pleasure in bringing the present text book entitled “Renewable Energy and Energy Harvesting” which comes under the ―Skill Enhancement Course‖ introduced by UGC (University Grant Commission) under latest syllabus CBCS (Choice Based Credit System) for second year under graduate students in different Universities. The aim of this course is not just to impart theoretical knowledge to the students but to provide them with exposure and hands-on learning wherever possible. The main feature of this book is the simplicity of its language supported by neat and clean diagrams. Every effort has been made to keep the book free from any misprint. The subject matter has been so arranged that even an average student can understand the technology of the science.
Chapter : Fossil Fuels and Alternate Sources of Energy
• Fossil Fuels
• Creation of Fossil Fuels
• Importance and Reserves of fossil fuel
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Fossil Fuels
• Limits and alternatives
• Environmental effects and Economic effects
• Fossil Fuels Are a Finite Resource
• Introduction to Energy
• Sources of Energy
• Types of Non‐Renewable sources of energy
• Renewable sources of energy
• Fossil Fuel as Energy
• Nuclear Energy 1.14 Nuclear Fission and Fussion 1.15 Nuclear Fission and Fussion Equation
• Nuclear energy production, positive and negative aspects
• Advantages and Challenges of Nuclear Energy
• Examining Nuclear Energy
• An overview of developments in offshore wind energy
• Tidal Energy Systems
• Tidal Turbine
• Wave & Tidal Energy Technology
• Biochemical conversion
• Biogas and its applications
• Measuring in biogas environments
• Hydroelectricity
• Advantages and disadvantages of Hydroelectricity
• Comparison and interactions with other methods of power generation Chapter 2: Solar Energy 53-94 2.1 Solar Energy 2.2 Importance of Solar Energy 2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of solar energy 2.4 Applications of solar energy
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• Storage of solar energy 2.6 Solar pond 2.7 Working of solar pond 2.8 Advantages and disadvantages of solar pond 2.9 Calculation of efficiency 2.10 Uses of solar pond 2.11 Solar distillation 2.12 Solar cooker 2.13 Solar Greenhouse 2.14 Solar cell 2.15 Absorption Air Conditioning 2.16 Photovoltaic (PV) Model and its characteristics
• Solar Tracking System
Chapter : Wind Energy Harvesting
• Fundamentals of wind energy
• Wind power generation and wind turbine design
• Wind generation
• Uneven solar heating
• Coriolis force
• Local geography
• Wind energy characteristics
• Wind power
• Blade swept area
• Air density
• Modern wind turbines
• Wind turbine classification
• Horizontal-axis and vertical-axis wind turbines
• Upwind and downwind wind turbines
• Wind turbine capacity
• Direct drive and geared drive wind turbines
• On-grid and off-grid wind turbines
• Onshore and offshore wind turbines
• Wind turbine configuration
• Wind power parameters
• Power coefficient
• Total power conversion coefficient and effective power output
• Lanchester–Betz Law
• Power curve
• Tip speed ratio
• Wind turbine capacity factor
• Wind turbine controls
• Pitch control
• Stall control
• Challenges in wind power generation
• Environmental impacts
• Wind turbine noise
• Integration of wind power into grid
• Thermal management of wind turbines
• Wind energy storage
• Cost of electricity from wind power
• Trends in wind turbine developments and wind power generation
• Integration of wind and other energy sources
• Wind–solar hybrid system
• Wind–hydro hybrid system
• Wind–hydrogen system
• Wind–diesel power generation system 3.11 Power electronics interfaces
• Topologies for PV Inverter
Chapter : Ocean Energy
• Ocean energy 4.2 Potentials against wind and solar energy 4.3 Forms of ocean energy 4.3.1 Renewable Non-renewable 4.4 Ocean energy development 4.5 Environmental effects 4.6 Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) 4.7 Ocean thermal energy conversion technologies 4.8 Ocean waves energy and its characteristics 4.9 Tide characteristics and statistics 4.10 Biomass 4.10.1 Terrestrial biomass
• Ocean biomass
• Bacterial biomass
• Global biomass
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Chapter : Geothermal Energy
• Geothermal Energy
• What Is Geothermal Energy?
• History of Geothermal Energy
• Where Is Geothermal Energy Found?
• Advantages and disadvantages 5.3 How Geothermal Energy Works
• The geothermal resource
• How geothermal energy is captured 5.3.3 The future of geothermal energy 5.4 Geothermal Energy Technologies 5.4.1 Geothermal power and electricity production
• Geothermal Direct Use
• Geothermal Heat Pumps
• Economics of Geothermal Energy 5.6 Environmental Impacts of Geothermal Energy 5.6.1 Water Quality and Use 5.6.2 Air Emissions 5.6.3 Land Use 5.6.4 Life-Cycle Global Warming Emissions
Chapter : Hydro Energy
• Hydro energy
• History of hydro electric power
• How does hydroelectric energy work?
• The hydropower resource
• Converting moving water to electricity
• General economics of hydropower energy
• Hydropower Technology
• Types of hydropower plants
• Types of hydropower turbines 6.6 Environmental and societal concerns 6.7 Low impact hydropower
• Advantages and disadvantages of hydropower. 6.9 The future of hydropower
• Alternative and Cutting Edge Technologies
Bibliography
Semester Questions
Dr. Niranjan Sahu currently working as, Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate Department of Physics, Gangadhar Meher University (GMU), Sambalpur, Odisha, India and Former Head of the Department (HOD) of Physics, Purushottam Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. He obtained his Ph.D degree from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has more than Eighteen years of teaching and research experience. He has been actively engaged in teaching Quantum Mechanics, Solid state physics, Mathematical Physics, Classical Mechanics, and Statistical Mechanics to M.Sc students and Digital Systems and Applications, Mathematical Physics I & II, Analog Systems and Applications, Elements of Modern Physics, and Renewable Energy and Energy Harvesting to B.Sc physics Honourse students. He has been very actively carrying out excellent research work in condensed matter physics. Dr. Sahu has published three edited books and more than twenty research papers in the journals of National and International repute. Presently he is on the board of reviewers for two international Journals. Now he is the life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi and Life member of Odisha physical Society (OPS), Bhubaneswa
Subject Covers:-
• Fossil Fuels and Alternate Sources of Energy.
• Solar Energy.
• Wind Energy Harvesting.
• Ocean Energy
• Geothermal Energy.
• Hydro Energy.
This Book Useful for the students of :-
• Physic
• Chemistry
• Bio
