Environmental aspects of electric energy conversion: impacts of renewable energy generation on environment (cost-GHG Emission) - Qualitative study of different renewable energy resources: Solar, wind, ocean, Biomass, Fuel cell, Hydrogen energy systems and hybrid renewable energy systems.
Reference theory fundamentals-principle of operation and analysis: IG, PMSG, SCIG and DFIG.
Solar: Block diagram of solar photo voltaic system -Principle of operation: line commutated converters (inversion-mode) - Boost and buck-boost converters- selection of inverter, battery sizing, array sizing Wind: Three phase AC voltage controllers- AC-DC-AC converters: uncontrolled rectifiers, PWM Inverters, Grid Interactive Inverters-matrix converters.
Stand-alone operation of fixed and variable speed wind energy conversion systems and solar system- Grid connection Issues -Grid integrated PMSG, SCIG Based WECS, grid Integrated solar system
Need for Hybrid Systems- Range and type of Hybrid systems- Case studies of Wind-PV Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT).
Reference Book:
1. Rashid .M. H “power electronics Hand book”, Academic press, 2001. 2. Ion Boldea, “Variable speed generators”, Taylor & Francis group, 2006. 3. Rai. G.D, “Non conventional energy sources”, Khanna publishes, 1993. 4. Gray, L. Johnson, “Wind energy system”, prentice hall linc, 1995. 5. Andrzej M. Trzynnadlowski, ‘Introduction to Modern Power Electronics’, Second edition, wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2012.
Text Book:
1. S. N. Bhadra, D.Kastha, S.Banerjee, “Wind Electrical Systems”, Oxford University Press 2005. 2. B.H.Khan Non-conventional Energy sources Tata McGraw-hill Publishing Company, New Delhi,2009