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Project 100
ELECTIVE-I -50
2. Energy Resources
Conventional and non-conventional energy resources: position in India, Transport, storage and
environmental problems.
Solar radiation: Available solar radiation and measurements, Radiation transmission through
covers and absorption by collectors, Theory of flat plate collectors and their performance. Solar
heating systems and design, Applications to solar cooling, Mechanical energy and solar industrial
process heating, Heat pumps, Solar ponds, Chemical storage systems, Photochemical conversion,
solar cells.
Solids fuels: Coal, biomass, solid wastes, briquettes; Progressive of solid fuels by pyrolysis,
gasification & liquefaction to secondary fuels, Refuse derived fuels.
Coal: Origin: Classification Coal preparation; Carbonization; Coke ovens; Gasification of coal;
Atmospheric and pressurized gasifiers; Fishcer Tropsch synthesis, Methanol to gasoline
conversion.
Petroleum: Origin and production of oil and gas, Petroleum refining and distillation; Cracking
and reforming; Fluid catalytic cracking.
Proximate and ultimate analysis of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels: Calorific value; Antiknock
rating and octane number; Cetane number; flash point; Char value; Smoke point; viscosity;
Aniline point etc.
Combustion Kinetics of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels: Ignition temperature, Types of burners.
Nuclear energy: Fission and fusion reactions; Nuclear reactor for power generation.
Hydrogen energy: Hydrogen production by photochemical decomposition of water and its
storage; Fuel cells.
Introduction to wind, tidal and geothermal energy: OTEC and MHD; Energy from biomass.