Renewable energy
Also listed as: אנרגיה מתחדשת
Solar, wind, storage and the economics that decide which of them gets built. Israel has the solar resource and the research base, so this is a thesis area with local pull.
- Semester
- Semester B
- Weekly hours
- 4h
- Counts as
- Department electives
- Interest areas
- Environment and energy
Comes after
- Thermodynamics 1
What it covers
Resources and conversion
- Global energy context and the solar resource
- Solar thermal: collectors and concentrating systems
- Photovoltaics: cell physics, I–V curves, maximum power point tracking, arrays
- Wind energy: resource assessment, the Betz limit, turbine types
- Hydro, biomass and biofuels, geothermal, ocean and tidal
Systems and economics
- Energy storage: batteries, thermal storage, hydrogen
- Grid integration and intermittency
- Capacity factor, techno-economics and levelised cost of energy
Results worth carrying out
Betz limit
Single-diode photovoltaic cell
Levelised cost of energy
Figures worth knowing
- Betz cp–λ curve
- PV I–V and P–V curves
- Solar-radiation charts
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