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Renewable Energy Resources

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    Provide students with an overview of different energy types and how to convert them into electricity. Study different energy conversion power plants; conventional and renewable technologies. Environmental impacts are discussed.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Responsible Consumption and Production

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Identifying all energy resources: thermal, chemical, nuclear, kinetic, gravitational field, magnetic field, electric field. Rank and classification of different energies. Regenerative energy resources: solar, wind, biomass, wave energy, geothermal. Possible energy conversions. Cautionary and safety measures and introduction to environmental issues.
  • Arabic Description

    Identifying all energy resources: thermal, chemical, nuclear, kinetic, gravitational field, magnetic field, electric field. Rank and classification of different energies. Regenerative energy resources: solar, wind, biomass, wave energy, geothermal. Possible energy conversions. Cautionary and safety measures and introduction to environmental issues.
  • Department
    Electrical Power and Machines Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Major Assessment (30 = tr.Industry 5% , tr.Project 10% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 20% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 0, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
  • 1. Kirk Hagen, Introduction to Renewable Energy for Engineers 1st. Edition, Pearson, 2015. Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Electric Energy: An Introduction, 2nd Edition, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2008
  • 2. Roland Wengenmayr and Thomas Bührke, Renewable Energy: Sustainable Energy Concepts for the Future, Wiley-VCH, 2008.
  • 3. Bent Sorensen, Renewable Energy, 3rd Edition, Academic Press, 2004.
  • 4. Godfrey Boyle, Renewable Energy, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. - Rolf E. Hummel Understanding material science Springer 2016 - Rolf E. Hummel Understanding material science Springer 2016.