Course: Renewable Energy for Rural Areas (4403-471)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller (verantwortlich)
• Dr. sc. agr. Marcus Nagle (begleitend)
• Dr. Klaus Meissner (begleitend)
• Dr. Victor Torres Toledo (begleitend)

Type of Course:

lecture with practicals and excursion

In-Class Hours Per Week:

5

Contents:

Principles of energy transformation and energy storage. An overview of energy supply and energy resources in industrial and developing countries. Efficient energy employment. Evaluation of fossil and regenerative sources of energy in technical, economical, and ecological terms. Connection between energy avaulability in agriculture, work productivity, and yield. Principle of transforming solar radiation, biomass, wind, and water power into mechanical, thermal, and electric energy. Introduction and evaluation of selected technologies in the field of regenerative energy sources (air and water collectors, solar drying plants, solar cookers, solar pumps, PV-systems, wind and water power plants, bio fuels, biomass combustion plants, bio gas plants). Methodos for the economic evaluation of technologies for energy production. Political and sociological effects of introducing regenerative energy sources in rural regions of developing countries.

Imparting of theoretical principals and methodological approaches in lectures. Practical exercises as designing installations. Presentation of selected technologies by demonstrations and excursions. Lecture manuscript, slides, and overhead transparencies.

Literature:

Twidell, J.; Weir, T. (1986): Renewable Energy Resources. E. & F.N. Spon, London.
Zweibel,K.(1990): Harnessing Solar Power: The Photovoltaics Challenge, Plenum Press, New York and London, ISBN 0-306-43564-0
Kitani.O., Jungbluth, Th., Peart, R.P., Ramadani,A.(1999): Energy and Biomass Engineering; CIGR Handbook of Agricultural Engineering, ASAE.

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 4403-470 Renewable Energy for Rural Areas (compulsory)