Technologies For Clean And Renewable Energy Production

By Prof. P. Mondal | IIT Roorkee

Learners enrolled: 1580

The course deals with the production of energy from different fossil fuels through cleanerroutes as well as from renewable resources. It is intended to help the young scientific professionals to keep their knowledge upgraded with the current thoughts and newer technology options along with their advances in the field of the utilization of different types of energy resources for cleaner energy production.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Any interested Students

PREREQUISITES : Nil

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	8 weeks
Start Date :	26 Jul 2021
End Date :	17 Sep 2021
Exam Date :	26 Sep 2021 IST
Enrollment Ends :	09 Aug 2021
Category :	Chemical Engineering Energy and Environment Energy Systems
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate

Course layout

Week 1: Introduction, characterization of coal and conventional routes for energy production from coal

Week 2: Cleaner routes for energy production form coal

Week 3: Characterization of crude oil and conventional routes for crude oil utilization

Week 4: Cleaner routes for energy production form petroleum crude

Week 5: Cleaner energy production from gaseous fuels

Week 6: Solar and wind energy production

Week 7: Production of hydro and geothermal energy

Week 8: Energy production from biomass and wastes and energy conservation

Books and references

1.Miller Bruce G., Coal Energy Systems, Elsevier Academic Press, Paris 2005

2..Twidel, J. and Tony W., Renewable Energy Resources, Second Edition, Taylor & Francis 2006

3.Kreith F., Goswami D.Y., Energy Management and Conservation, CRC Press 2008

4.Sukhatme S., J Nayak J., Solar Energy: Principles of thermal Collection and Storage, 3 rd Ed., Tata McGrow-Hill Pulishing Company Ltd. 2008

5.Mondal P and Dalai A., Sustainable utilization of natural resources, CRC Press 2017

Instructor bio

Prof. P. Mondal

IIT Roorkee

Dr. Prasenjit Mondal, is presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He joined the institute in 2009 as Assistant Professor. He has also worked as Process Engineer in industry for two years and as scientist in Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research, India for three years before joining IIT Roorkee. His area of research is Energy and Environmental Engineering (Water /wastewater treatment through adsorption, electrocoagulation and biological processes including phytoremediation, microbial fuel cells, oil from algae, energy from coal, biomass and wastes, life cycle assessment). He has handled number of R&D projects sponsored by Industry, Govt. of India and International Agencies. Presently he is engaged with two international projects under Australia India Strategic Research Fund and Indo-France Water Network Scheme. He has published one book and more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is the recipient of NTSE scholarship, MHRD fellowship, Govt. of India and S.J. Jindal Trust’s scholarship, 3 year membership award of American Chemical Society. He is holding the position of Chairman Community Dairy, IIT Roorkee. He is a reviewer for several international journals including Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy. He is a life member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers and the treasurer of Biological Engineering Society, India.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 26 September 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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