Renewable Energy Systems

Overview:

Introduction:

The Renewable Energy Systems training program educates on implementing and managing various renewable energy technologies. Participants gain practical skills for developing sustainable power systems through theoretical instruction, hands-on demonstrations, and practical exercises.

Program  Objectives:

At the end of this Program, the participants will be able to:

• Understand the importance and roles of renewable energy in this modern age.

• Learn how to maximize the natural resources and convert them into renewable energy.

• Understand the components architecture between the solar and wind power generations.

• Create awareness in understanding the types of renewable energy.

• Appreciation of the benefits of harvesting renewable energy.

• Understand the characteristics and operations of each type of renewable energy.

• Explore the suitability of introducing renewable energy generation to your premises.  

Targeted Audience:

• Electrical Engineers.

• Maintenance Technicians.

• Management Professionals.

• Project Engineers.

• Transmission Engineers.

• Power Generation Engineers. 

Program Outlines:

Unit 1:

Renewable Energy: A Crucial Component of the Global Energy Landscape:

• World energy scenario and place of renewable for energy generation.

• Review of renewable energy technologies.

• Place of PV in the context of the world and its importance.

Unit 2:

Wind Energy:

• Classification of wind turbines.

• Types of rotors.

• Energy extraction from wind.

• Wind power systems.

Unit 3:

Fundamentals of Semiconductors:

• Semiconductors as materials for solar cells.

• Carrier concentration and distribution.

• Generation-recombination processes.

• Continuity Equations.

• PN diodes: introduction to solar cells.

Unit 4:

Design of Solar Cells:

• Upper limits of cell parameters.

• Losses in solar cells.

• Design of parameters for a high-efficiency solar cell.

Unit 5:

Heterojunction, Thin Films, and Other Promising Solar Cells:

• GaAs-based tandem cells.

• Amorphous Si-based thin films.

• CIGS and CdTe based cells.

• Emerging cells.