Syllabus-Energy Science and Engineering

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UNIT-1: ENERGY & ITS USAGE

Units and scales of energy use,

• Mechanical energy and transport,
• Heat energy:
  • Conversion between heat and mechanical energy,
• Electromagnetic energy:
  • Storage,
  • conversion,
  • transmission and radiation,
  • Introduction to the quantum,
  • energy quantization,
  • Energy in chemical systems and processes,
  • flow of CO2,
  • Entropy and temperature,
  • carnot and Stirling heat engines,
  • Phase change energy conversion,
  • refrigeration and heat pumps,
  • Internal combustion engines,
  • Steam and gas power cycles,
  • the physics of power plants.
  • Solid-state phenomena including photo,
  • thermal and electrical aspects.

UNIT-2: NUCLEAR ENERGY

• Fundamental forces in the universe,
• Quantum mechanics relevant for nuclear physics,
• Nuclear forces,
• energy scales and structure,
• Nuclear binding energy systematics,
• reactions and decays,
• Nuclear fusion,
• Nuclear fission and fission reactor physics,
• Nuclear fission reactor design,
• safety,
• operation and fuel cycles.

UNIT-3: SOLAR ENERGY

• Introduction to solar energy,
• fundamentals of solar radiation & its measurement aspects;
  • Basic physics of semiconductors,
  • Carrier transport,
  • generation & recombination in semiconductors,
• Semiconductor junctions:
  • metal-semiconductor junction & p-n junction,
  • Essential characteristics of solar photovoltaic devices,
  • 1* Generation Solar Cells,
  • 2nd Generation Solar Cells,
  • 3rd Generation Solar Cells.

UNIT-4 : CONVENTIONAL & NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCE

• Biological energy sources and fossil fuels,
• Fluid dynamics and power in the wind,
• available resources,
• fluids,
• viscosity,
• types of fluid flow,
• lift,
• Wind turbine dynamics and design,
• wind farms,
• Geothermal power and ocean thermal energy conversion,
• Tidal / wave/ hydro power.

UNIT-5: SYSTEMS AND SYNTHESIS

• Overview of World Energy Scenario,
• Nuclear radiation,
• fuel cycles,
• waste and proliferation,
• Climate change,
• Energy storage,
• Energy conservation.
• Engineering for Energy conservation:
  • Concept of Green Building and Green Architecture;
  • Green building concepts,
  • LEED ratings;
  • Identification of energy related enterprises that represent the breath of the industry and prioritizing these as candidates;
  • Embodied energy analysis and use as a tool for measuring sustainability.
  • Energy Audit of Facilities and optimization of energy consumption.

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