Course Contents | Introduction to Renewable Energy Sources: Renewable Energy Sources, impact on the environment and the economy markets.
Solar Energy: Various Photovoltaic technologies, such as silicon or non-silicon based, the existing generations of PV, as well as the emerging technologies of thin film and concentrate Various Photovoltaic technologies, such as silicon or non-silicon based. Three existing generations of PV, various categories of silicon-based PVs, which are monocrystalline, polycrystalline, ribbon and sheet, and amorphous silicon, as well as the emerging technology of thin film and concentrated PVs, market analysis of the aforesaid past and present technologies, including price evolution, factory capacity evolution at different countries, installation facilities, and external factors affecting the PV industry, such as the silicon crisis, oil prices, and exchange rates, comparison between current and future technologies, future prospects of going beyond silicon, using non-silicon thin film solar cells of type CIGS.
Wind Energy: Basic systems of wind turbines such as mechanical and aerodynamics systems, connection possibilities of Grid Connected Wind Farms to High Voltage, Medium Voltage and Low Voltage networks, aerodynamic control (Stall) and step control (pitch), constant and variable speed operation, inverters, existing wind turbine technologies investigated in terms of cost, reliability and practicality.
Biomass energy: Energy from plants and plant derived materials such as wood, food crops, grassy and woody plants, residues from agriculture or forestry, and the organic component of municipal and industrial wastes.
Fusion Energy: General principles of fusion reaction, Electromagnetic and Inertia Confinement, Tokamaks (ITER, JET, JT-60, EAST, MAST, ALCATOR C-Mod), Lawson criterion, Incentives for Developing Fusion, Advantages and Disadvantages of Fusion Energy.
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