FUTURE ENERGY SYSTEMS II (FEM 805)
Hydropower
technologies: Hydropower as renewable energy technology and its
development. Components of Hydropower
facilities. Classification of Hydroelectric power plants. Advantages and
disadvantages of Hydropower. Hydrology and Hydraulics; Hydrological cycle;
Hydrographs/ flow-duration curves. Hydraulic turbines: Basic principle, Turbine
types and sizes; Degree of reaction, Turbine performance & selection.
Applications of Hydropower. Geothermal technologies: Geology of geothermal
regions: The Earth and its atmosphere; Active geothermal regions; Model of a
hydrothermal geothermal resource, Other types of geothermal resources (Hot dry
rock, geopressure, magma energy, deep hydrothermal). Exploration strategies and
techniques: Objectives of an exploration programme; Phases of an exploration
programme (literature survey, airborne survey, geologic survey, hydrologic
survey, geochemical survey, geophysical survey). Applications of geothermal
energy: Electricity generation; Industrial applications. Advantages and disadvantages
of geothermal energy. Ocean energy: Ocean activities - Waves, ocean currents,
tides, salinity, temperature gradients. Tidal energy and technologies for
exploitation of tidal energy: Tidal devices; turbine types, oscillating
hydrofoils etc. Advantages and disadvantages of ocean energy