Syllabus

Module1:
Sources of Energy: Renewable energy sources and features. Introduction to wind and solar energy. Wind Energy: General theories of wind machines: Basic laws and concept of aerodynamics, efficiency limit for wind energy conversion. Description and performances of horizontal axis wind turbine: Design of the blades and determination of forces acting on the wind power plant, power ~ speed and torque ~ speed characteristics of wind turbines, wind turbine control systems. Description and performances of vertical axis wind turbine. (8 hrs)

Module 2:
Conversion to electrical power: Induction and synchronous generators, grid connected and self-excited induction generator operation, generation schemes with variable speed turbines, constant voltage and constant frequency generation with power electronic control, Optimized control of induction generators and synchronous generators. Reactive power compensation, Types of converters, Type of wind energy conversion system, MPPT techniques for wind electrical systems. (8 hrs)

Module 3:
Solar Energy: Solar processes and spectral composition of solar radiation Radiation flux at the Earth’s surface, solar collectors, types and performance characteristics, applications. Solar Photovoltaic systems: Operating principle, photovoltaic cell concepts, cell, module, array, series and parallel connections. Basics of Batteries: Types and parameters of batteries for PV systems, series and parallel connections and performance characteristics. (8 hrs)

Module 4:
Solar PV system design and grid integration, charge controllers, PV MPPT techniques. Applications: General overview, Distributed generation, Hybrid energy systems: Wind-Diesel hybrid system, Wind-solar hybrid system, System with energy storage, Special purpose applications. (8 hrs)

Module 5:
Wind and Solar Energy System Economics: Overview of economic assessment, capital, operation and maintenance costs of wind and solar energy systems, comparison of alternative energy systems using life cycle cost analysis. (4 hrs)

Explain the concept of wind and solar energy systems

To provide the students a deep insight in to the integration of power electronics converters with PV and wind energy sources.

To expose students to study various maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques of wind and PV energy systems

Explains the need for hybrid energy systems and issues associated with it.

At the end of the course, students will be able to
1. Understand the basics of wind and solar energy conversion and their operating characteristics
2. Understand the aerodynamics of wind rotor and design the wind turbine system
3. Analyse the use of different power electronics converters and electrical machines used in standalone wind energy conversion systems
4. Understand and apply the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques for wind and PV systems
5. Design the standalone and grid connected solar PV systems.
6. Interpret the working of different configurations of hybrid energy systems and life cycle cost analysis.

S. N. Bhadra, D. Kastha, S. Banerjee, Wind Electrical Systems, Oxford Univ. Press , 2005

C.S. Solanki, Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technologies and Applications, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. , 2016

M.G. Simoes, F.A. Farret, Alternative Energy Systems: Design and Analysis with Induction Generators, CRC Press , 2004

Nicola Femia, Giovanni Petrone, Giovanni Spagnuolo, Massimo Vitelli, Power Electronics And Control Techniques For Maximum Energy Harvesting In Photovoltaic Systems, CRC Press , 2012

M. G. Villalva, J. R. Gazoli and E. R. Filho, "Comprehensive Approach to Modeling and Simulation of Photovoltaic Arrays," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1198-1208, May 2009, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2013862.

B. Subudhi and R. Pradhan, "A Comparative Study on Maximum Power Point Tracking Techniques for Photovoltaic Power Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 89-98, Jan. 2013, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2012.2202294.