MARE514 : Renewable Energies

Department

Department of Marine Engineering

Academic Program

Bachelor in Marine machinery and engines

Type

Elective

Credits

03

Prerequisite

MARE326

Overview

Introduction to renewable energies. Solar Radiation: Principles Incidence, Solar radiation, spatial distribution, and Daily radiation. Solar Heat: Physical Principles of Solar thermal collector typologies, Domestic Hot Water, Plant Schemes. Heat Storage. Photovoltaics (PV): The Cell Components of the plant. Basics of electricity for PV. Wind turbines: design, mounting/mooring arrangements, installation. Failure echanisms, design of wind environment, aerodynamic characteristics of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines, boundary element method, momentum method, boundary element momentum method .Wave energy: energy within water wave, description and operation of various systems proposed and for inshore and offshore application. Energy storage, transmission and distribution issues and solutions.