Renewable Energy 5 (P00415)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : EEL-P-PGREN

This course addresses the most significant engineering issues associated with renewable energy. These are:
1. Resource assessment
2. Intermittancy
3. Environmental interactions
4. Conceptual system design
This will be done through specific consideration of wind (in association with coverage elsewhere), wave and tidal currents as renewable energy resources. A broader and less specialised overview of other resources such as solar and biomass will be given and will utilise seminars given by external specialists.

Course objectives:
1. To consider renewable energy in the context of the broader energy regime
2. To introduce and refine the concept of rational renewable energy resource assessment in an engineering context
3. To identify the principal engineering issues associated with the systematic design of renewable energy machines
4. To understand the relationships between the marine environment and energy system design
5. To understand the design parameters for energy machines dependent upon environmental flux
6. To understand parametric descriptions of sea states and how these can be used with machine system descriptions to assess performance (wave and tidal)
7. To understand the economics governing the introduction of soft and firm renewable energy

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Mechanical Engineering Fundamentals of Renewable Energy (P01779 ) or first-degree courses covering fundamentals of mechanical engineering

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Engineering and Electronics), (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 6 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	10:00	13:00	KB

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course students should be able to:
1. Assess renewable energy as part of the broader energy environment
2. To describe and critically discuss the energy available from wind and assess the engineering issues involved
3. To estimate the energy resource extractable from the marine environment, taking into account environmental, social and economic constraints
4. To critically analyse the design of wave and tidal energy systems
5. To describe and discuss the limitations of contemporary renewable enrgy systems and contribute to the next stage of development