Reference Books:

1. DP Kothari, KC Singal, and R Ranjan, Renewable Energy Sources and Emerging Technologies, Prentice hall, New Delhi, 2008.
2. VVN Kishore, Renewable Energy Engineering and Technology: principles and practice, Teri, India, 2008.
3. SS Das, DD Behera, and NC Giri, Clean Energy Applications in Modern World, Notion Press, ISBN: 9781638069560, 2021.
4. SS Das, DD Behera, and A.Pradhan, Clean Energy Products: A Path for Attaining Livelihood Security, Notion Press, ISBN: 9781636691602, 2020.

Session Plan

Session 1

Foundation (online): (1)Sharing the success stories of the area/course so far (2) Sharing clear road map to deliver the course (3) List of Projects/Products they have to make
Demo: Demonstration about Solar Thermal collector.
Practice: Design and Modeling of liquid flat plate collector
Web link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8U8j1VUSfw

Study Material: Solar Flat plate collector design
Different types of Solar thermal system and it's application

Session 2

Foundation (online) - Description of portable type parabolic trough collector
Demo: Demonstration of demo model of portable type parabolic trough collector and identification Fresnel reflector
Practice: Design and Modeling of portable type parabolic trough collector

Web link:
solar parabolic Trough collector

Study Material: solar parabolic concentrator-pdf

Session 3

Foundation (online): Description of different components and specification of different type of solar cooker
Demo: Demonstration of demo model of parabolic dish type and box type cooker
Practice: Design and Modeling of parabolic dish type and box type cooker
Web link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3nydqpv8T0

Study Material: Experimental study of Solar Dish Type of Solar Concentrator pdf

Session 4

Foundation (online) - Description of different components of Evacuated type of solar collector
Demo: Demonstration of Solar water heater by Evacuated tube collector (ETC)
Practice: Design and Modelling of Evacuated Tube type solar collector

Study material: Different types of Solar thermal system and it's application

Assignment 1 :
Mode of Submission: Online through Google documents

Session 5

Foundation (online): Site survey for computing the shadow free open area available on the ground or rooftop for installation of solar thermal system
Demo: Demonstration of Forced convection type of solar dryer
Practice: Design and Modeling of Forced convection type solar dryer

web link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJYIw8qbN2M

Study Material: forced convection solar dryer-pdf

Session 6

Foundation (online): Analyze solar radiation data for the project site
Demo: Demonstration of different components of Hybrid type solar dryer
Practice: Design and Modelling of Hybrid type solar dryer
web link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHVIXwWIEGs

Study Material: Performance Analysis of Novel Hybrid Type Solar Dryer Employing Solar Flat Plate Collector-pdf

Session 7

Foundation (online): Concept of pyranometer, pyrhelometer, Sunshine recorder
Demo: Demonstration of different types of solar measuring instrument
Practice: Measurement of solar radiation and temperature by using LUX Meter and pyrometer.

Study material: Different types of Solar thermal system and it's application

Session 8

Foundation (online): Material selection of solar dryer
Demo: Demonstration of different components of solar dryer.
Practice: Performance Testing of Forced convection type of solar dryer
Weblink: https://spark.adobe.com/video/jY9L2L4UQcIOR
Study Material: forced convection and cabinet type of solar dryer-pdf

Session 9

Demo: Demonstration of efficiency of Hybrid type solar dryer
Practice: Performance Testing of Hybrid type solar dryer
Study Material: Performance Analysis of Novel Hybrid Type Solar Dryer Employing Solar Flat Plate Collector-pdf

Session 10

Demo: Demonstration of material selection and efficiency calculation of solar cooker.
Practice: Performance testing of Box type of solar cooker
web link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00XlOQvUyac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9XCjlZp-xM

Study Material: Solar box type cooker-pdf

Assignment 2:
Mode of Submission: Online through google documents

Session 11

Demo: Demonstration on efficiency calculation and material selection of dish type of solar cooker
Practice: Performance testing of dish type of solar cooker
web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8lDJy7uvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4n7RQSuV8

Session 12

Demo: Demonstration on efficiency calculation and focus point calculation of Parabolic Trough concentrator
Practice: Performance testing of Parabolic Trough concentrator
web link: https://youtu.be/N1-zjbRqYXk

Session 13

Demo: Carry out testing of the piping network for any leakages and rectify accordingly if any defects found
Practice: Commission of the solar thermal system
Web link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdivW7inP0k&feature=youtu.be

Session 14

Foundation (online): Maintenance of proper cleaning of reflectors/ collectors
Demo: Check the receiver pipes, receivers and heat delivery pipes for scale formation periodically and carry out de-scaling of pipes with descaling chemicals using descalar system
Practice: Commissioning of proper working of tracking system
Web Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdivW7inP0k&feature=youtu.be

Session 15

Foundation (online): Identification of corporate policies required for work safety
Demo: Identification of the location of first aid materials
Practice: Checking of the receivers for damage and checking the receivers for black coating/ selective coating and in case of fading of paint
Web link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNU1JMhzxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq9ihHlqmbc