EEE 3205:

Renewable Energy
Engineering
Dr. Denis Bbosa (Ph.D.)
1) Ph.D. Mech Eng.
2) MEng-Energy Systems Eng.
3) MSc –Biorenewables & Agric
Eng.
4) BSc. Agric Eng.

dbbosa@must.ac.ug
Course Description and Objectives
a) Brief Course Description
• This course helps the students to understand different energy sources and
conversion technologies for generating electric power and heat. Emphasis is on
the design, analysis and implementation of renewable energy projects. The
course is designed to help students develop critical understanding that they can
apply to assist the wide range of renewable energy industries. The course will
equip students with the engineering knowledge and practical skills necessary to
develop and implement creative solutions to engineering problems encountered
in renewable energy capture and conversion, system design and analysis, project
development and implementation.
b) Objectives
• Understand the energy conversion principles
• Distinguish between various energy sources and conversion technologies.
• Develop and implement creative solutions to engineering problems encountered
in renewable energy capture and conversion.
• Apply and use a significant range of principal and specialist skills, techniques and
practices in renewable energy.
General information for online lectures
NO TOPICS HRS
01 Introduction to Renewable Energy Resources and conversion, applications, design, 15
development and deployment of renewable energy converters, and energy storage
and demand management systems. Introduction to solar energy, Insolation –
Direct Sunlight, Passive and active solar heating.
02 Renewable Energy Technologies; Wind, Tidal, Wave, Hydroelectricity; 15
Development of power generation with wind, tidal and wave, fundamental
principles related to these renewable energies, technologies for the selection,
design and operation of systems related and integration with national grid.
03 Processes and conversion technologies; power cycles, combined heat and power, 15
combustion processes, boiler plant, thermal energy storage and environmental
impacts. The Future of solar energy.
General information for online lectures
Unit Score (%)
Course work (Assignments, tests, 40
etc.)
Final Examination 60

Total 100
Recommended Reading Books

[1] Renewable Energy- Facts by Dieter Seifried and Walter Witzel,

Earthscan Publisher, 2010.
[2] Energy Conversion System by Rakosh Da Begamudre, New Age
International Publishers, 2000.
[3] Integration of Alternative Sources of Energy by Felix.A.Farret,
John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Expectations
• Not expected to arrive more than five (05) late.
• Be respectful.
• Raise your hand to speak
• Listen when others are speaking
• Talk politely
• Mind your own business
Expectations
• Not expected to arrive more than five (05) late.
• Be respectful.
• Raise your hand to speak
• Listen when others are speaking
• Talk politely
• Mind your own business
Expectations
• Not expected to arrive more than five (05) late.
• Be safe
• Keep hands, feet & objects to yourself
• Sit appropriately in your seat.
• Enter and exit the lecture room quietly.
• Use materials properly.
Expectations
• Not expected to arrive more than five (05) late.
• Be kind
• Use kind words
• Be helpful to others
• Give encouragement
• Cooperate with others
• Respect the thoughts & feelings of others
General information
• Academic integrity:
• For more info visit https://www.must.ac.ug/about-must/university-
policies/
• Example: Any copying or cheating will be an automatic ‘F’ grade.

Attendance:
• Attendance is expected for all class meetings (>80%). If you are unable to
attend on any day, please contact me prior to the class meeting time via
email.

Leaving class:
• -You are expected to arrive before time and remain in the
Lecture room throughout the lecture period.
General information for online lectures
• Please login to Zoom 5 min prior to start of lecture
• Have your LMS open and register your attendance within the first 10 mins
of the lecture.
• Please attend online class in a quiet environment where there are minimal
inconveniences.
• Raise your hand in the chat room incase you have any question.
• There might be exercises conducted on LMS platform.

Reading assignments:
- To study from the textbook (or coursebook) before each class meeting.
- At the end of every chapter there might (might not) be a question to
attempt.
Questions?
Basic energy concepts
• Energy is involved in all life cycles.
• Crops need energy from solar radiation to grow,
• Harvesting needs energy from the human body in
form of work.
• Cooking needs energy from biomass in the firewood.
• The food, in its turn, provides the human body with
energy.
Forms of Energy
• Radiation energy: transferred by electromagnetic radiation.
• Chemical energy: wood and oil contain energy in a chemical form. The
same is true for all other material that can burn.
• Potential energy: this is, for example, the energy of a water reservoir
at a certain height.
• Kinetic energy: this is energy of movement.
• Thermal energy or heat: energy contained within a system that is
responsible for its temperature
• Mechanical energy, or rotational energy, also called shaft power: this
is the energy of a rotating shaft.
• Electrical energy, derived as a result of movement of electrons
Energy and power
• Energy and power are
related but totally
different concepts.
• The power is the energy
produced per unit of time
(energy/time).
• A tank of petrol contains a
certain amount of energy.
We can combust this
petrol in a certain time
period, that is, we convert
the energy of the petrol
into mechanical energy,
perhaps to power a car.
Reading Assignment 1
• http://www.fao.org/3/u2246e/u2246e02.htm

• In groups.
• Provide a summarized insight of reading assignment 1 in one page. Assume
that the reader is non-technical/your grandmama.
• Class president to submit to the lecturer before next lecture.

LMS enrolment key, EEE3205#2022