GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND NETWORK INTERFACES/5011330
Course Title: RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND NETWORK INTERFACES
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Student knows the concepts and types of the renewable energy sources.
Understands different renewable energy resources and applied technologies.
Knows and designs different converter types and control systems used at the grid interfaces of renewable energy resources.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Generating Electrical Energy With Fossil Fuels, Distributed Generation Concept and Renewable Energy
2. Week  Utilizing Solar, Wind, Hydrogen, Geothermal, Biomass, Wave Energies and Micro-Hydropower Systems in Electrical Energy Generation
3. Week  Solar Energy Systems, The Solar Spectrum of Turkey and World
4. Week  Solar Position and Its Effects On Generated Energy, Operation Principles of Photovoltaic Cell and Generalized Equivalent Circuit
5. Week  Cell, Module and Array Concepts, Photovoltaic Cell Technologies
6. Week  I-V Curves of Photovoltaic Arrays, Maximum Power Point Concept and Maximum Power Point Tracking Methods, Sun Tracking Systems
7. Week  Grid Connection of The Solar Energy systems, Inverter Types Used In Solar Energy Systems, Stand Alone Inverter, Grid Interactive Inverter, Bi-mode Inverter
8. Week  Battery and PV Array Sizing in Stand-Alone Systems, PV Array Sizing in Grid Interactive Systems, Midterm Exam
9. Week  The History of The Wind Energy, Types of Wind Turbines
10. Week  Generator Types Used in Wind Turbines, DC Generators, Synchronous Generators, Induction Generators
11. Week  Speed Control for Maximum Power, Optimizing Rotor Diameter and Generator Rated Power Rotor, Impact of Tower Height on Generating Energy
12. Week  Power Converters Used In Wind Energy Systems, Wind Farms
13. Week  Small Scale Photovoltaic System Design
14. Week  Large Scale Photovoltaic System Design
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
1
30
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
14
3
42
 Searching in Internet and Library
12
3
36
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
4
8
32
 Preparing a Presentation
2
8
16
 Presentation
1
2
2
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
15
15
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
15
15
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
200
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
8
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To access to wide and deep information with scientific researches in the field of Engineering, evaluate, interpret knowledge and implement.X
2To complete and implement limited or incomplete data by using the scientific methods. To stick knowledge of different disciplinarians togetherX
3To consolidate engineering problems, develop proper method to solve and apply innovative solutions.X
4To develop new and original ideas and methods, To develop new innovative solutions at design of system, component or processX
5To have comprehensive information on modern techniques, methods and their borders which are being applied to engineeringX
6To design and apply analytical, modeling and experimental based research, analyze and interpret the faced complex issues during the design and apply process.X
7High level ability to define the required information, data and reach, assess.X
8To lead multi-disciplinary teams to take responsibility to define approaches for complex situations.X
9Systematic and clear verbal or written transfer of the process and results of studies at national and international environmentsX
10Social, scientific and ethical values guarding adequacy at all professional activities and at the stage of data collection, interpretation, announcement.X
11Awareness at new and developing application of profession and ability to analyze and study on those applications.X
12To interpret engineering application’s social and environmental dimensions and it’s compliance with the social environment.X
13Ability for effective oral and official communication skills in Turkish Language.X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. Dr. İbrahim SEFA)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (https://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/isefa)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (isefa@gazi.edu.tr)