Renewable Energy Sources

The renewable energy source group of training systems exposes students to many important aspects of modern solar, wind and hydro-solar renewable energy sources. The training systems are specifically designed to afford a modular approach to meet the requirements of a wide variety of curricula.

The training systems cover the following topics:
• The importance of “green” energy and the environment
• Different forms of energy, energy conversion
• The solar cell: how it operates, various applications
• Different factors that influence the solar cell output
• Energy storage in a capacitor, using stored energy to operate the various loads
• Measuring the voltage generated in the solar cell as a function of lamp intensity, distance and angle
• The use of tracking to increase efficiency
• The wind generator: how it operates, various applications
• Different factors that influence the wind generator systems and their output
• Measure the voltage generated by the wind generator as a function of wind motor distance & angle
• Converting wind energy to light, mechanical work and sound
• Storing energy in a capacitor
• Measuring conversion efficiency
• Performing measurements and calculating the efficiency of the wind generator and the crane
• Heat transfer by conduction and convection
• The effect of circulation on heat transfer
• Effect of water circulation on water temperature at different levels in the tank
• The effect of insulation on the heating and cooling of the water, greenhouse effect
• Measuring water heating characteristics, with and without insulation
• Electromagnetic radiation and how color influences heating
• A real solar water heating system design