Physics of Renewable Energy Systems

By Prof. Amreesh Chandra | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 2076

For a country like India, renewable energy will play an important in ensuring energy safety, security and sustainability. With the fast growing demand in off-grid applications in areas extending from villages to hills, newer technologies will have to be MADE IN INDIA. We will start with the basics of energy sources ranging from thermal, mechanical, and photovoltaic sources. The lectures will cover the topics on electricity generation using solar cells, use of solar heaters, solar based mobiles chargers to use of solar cookers in India. Subsequently, we will shift our attention on wind, water, tidal and geothermal power. At the end, the need of efficient energy storage technologies will be discussed. These include Li batteries and supercapacitors.

The additional required concepts such as free electron model, p-n junction, coriolis force, turbulence, standing waves, thermodynamics, capacitors, crystal structure, etc. will also be discussed.

The basics of various characterization techniques useful for evaluating energy systems will also be explained. These include cyclic voltammetry, charge discharge, EIS, quantum efficiency, etc. will be explained.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Integrated M.Sc. : Physics, material science, energy science
B.Tech: Energy Science, Engineering Physics, Electrical, Mechanical Industry: Related to Power systems, Energy Storage
M.Tech.: Energy Sciences, Materials Science, Physics, Mechanical, Electrical

PREREQUISITES : Upto 3^rd Year courses of the B.Tech. Degree.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT :

Su-Kam power systems Ltd
Luminous Power Technologies
Loom Solar
Suzlon Energy Limited
Orient Green Power Limited
Exide Batteries
Vikram Solar
Maxwell technologies
Hy-Cap Technologies

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Physics Energy and Environment
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	26 Jul 2021
End Date :	15 Oct 2021
Enrollment Ends :	09 Aug 2021
Exam Date :	24 Oct 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1 : Basics of semiconductor, nanomaterials and nanotechnology

Week 2 : Renewable energy sources and classifications

Week 3 : Solar Power

Week 4 : Wind Power

Week 5 : Hydro, Tidal and Geothermal Systems
Week 6 : Energy storage Technology: Classification and principle

Week 7 : Fuel cells: Principles, Classifications and Operations

Week 8 : Supercapacitors and Battery

Week 9 : Energy storage mechanism

Week 10 : Effect of double layer in energy storage: Chemical approach

Week 11 : Characterization techniques: I

Week 12 : Characterization techniques II

Books and references

1. Physics of Energy Sources, G. C. King

2. Physics and Technology of Sustainable Energy; E L Wolf

3. Advanced renewable Energy Systems, S C Bhatia

4. Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future, Godfrey Boyle

5. Electrochemical Supercapacitors, B. E. Conway

6. Renewable Energy Resources, John Twidell and Tony Weir

7. Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, David J. C. MacKay

8. Solar Photovoltaics: Fundamentals, Technologies and Applications, Chetan Singh Solanki

9. Handbook of Materials Characterization, Surender Kumar Sharma

Instructor bio

Prof. Amreesh Chandra

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Amreesh Chandra is currently a Professor in the Department of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has teaching experience of > 12 years, both at UG and PG level. His research activities focus on the development of smart functional materials, which are useful for energy systems. Prof. Chandra did his Ph.D. from IIT BHU and has post doctoral experience from Germany and United Kingdom. He joined IIT Kharagpur in 2009. He has > 70 research publications and has funded research projects from DST, DAE-BRNS, MHRD, MPG (Germany) and UKIERI (UK).

Course certificate

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The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 24 October 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
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