Course Syllabus
Bio-energy: Renewability and sustainability of biomass, origin of bio-mass (Photosynthetic process) sources, characteristics, Energy farming, biofuel production process, biomass conversion methods, pyrolysis, gasification, types of biomass gasification, biogas systems and classifications.
Anaerobic digestion of wastes, high performance bio-gas systems, cleaning of bio-gas, use of bio- mass for electricity production, bio-gas compression and storage.
Micro algae for oil production, Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) in engines, Microbial Fuel Cell, configurations, organic wastes to electricity, Waste to Energy (WTE) systems for Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW), vegetable, fish and meat processing residues for biodiesel production, bio-energy for stand- alone electrification, hybrid renewable energy systems.
Simulation and case studies of above topics.