Program : Renewable and New Energy Systems (RNES)

Degree : MSc/MEng

Course Code : ACE 612

Course Name : Solar Photovoltaics and Wind Technologies

Course Category : Compulsory Core Courses

Semester : Second Semester

Credit Hours : 3

Electricity basics, Solar photovoltaic and wind energy system designs; PV system sizing, series and parallel connections, system configurations, stand-alone and grid-tied systems, standard test conditions (STC), calculations, estimation of energy requirements in Ah. PV array size using 7Watts (Wp) and Amps, accumulators, discharge levels, charge controllers, voltage drops and cable sizes. Solar modules, inverters, semi-conductors and doping, n-type and p-type junctions, I-V curves. Principles of Wind energy; Wind turbine generator types (in terms of structure, operation and nature of generated output electricity, harvested wind power, wind velocity, blade orientation and dimension etc. Design considerations for standalone and grid-tied wind generator farms. Mini-grid installation, choice of location for PV plant, site survey, soil analysis, climate conditions of the area-temperature, humidity, rainfall, sunshine hours, wind velocity; shadowing, feed-inmetering,O&M,instrumentation.InvertersandChargeControllers.Components fabrication and physics of solar PV cells/modules. Wind energy technologies, wind power potential across Africa and the world, technical potential, wind as kinetic energy, the Betz limit, turbulence, wind measurement; wind turbine elements, rotor blades, nacelle, yawing, wind turbine towers, tip speed ratio, power control and wind power curves. Types of generators and grid connections.