| Course Status : | Upcoming |
| Course Type : | |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 8 weeks |
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| Credit Points : | 3 |
| Level : | Diploma |
| Start Date : | 26 Jan 2026 |
| End Date : | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 28 Feb 2026 |
| Exam Date : | |
| Translation Languages : | English |
| NCrF Level : | 4.5 — 5.5 |
| Industry Details : | Education and Training |
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Week 1: Solar radiation outside the earth’s atmosphere, Solar radiation at the earth’s surface, Instruments for measuring solar radiation.
Week 2: Basic earth sun angles and derived sun angles, Determination of solar time, sunrise, sunset and daylength
Week 3: Technologies to harness solar energy – Liquid flat plate collectors and its energy balance, Solar air heaters.
Week 4: Solar dryer, Solar Pond, Solar distillation, Solar cooking, Solar green houses, Performance testing of solar collectors (Liquid flat plate collector and Solar air heaters)
Week 5: Concentrated solar power systems for thermal power
generation – concentrating systems - medium and high temperature devices –
Compact linear Fresnel reflectors, Solar parabolic trough,
Week 6: Solar power tower, Solar parabolic dish. Non-concentrating systems.
Week 7: Principle of photovoltaic conversions, Performance characteristics of a solar cell, Types of solar cells, Solar PV modules, arrays
Week 8: Batteries, Charge controllers, MPPT, Inverters, Wires, Types of solar PV systems.
Week 9: Design methodology for solar PV system, Grid -connected solar PV systems.
Week 10: Need for thermal energy storage, Size and duration of storage, thermal energy storage – Sensible heat storage, Storage in phase change materials, Storage in reversible chemical reactions
Week 11: Concentrated photovoltaic, CPV integrated solar parabolic dish and trough system. CPV integrated Frensel lens system, Issues and challenges of CPV, Thermal management of CPV
Week 12: Economic analysis of solar energy systems- Net
present value concept, Pay -back period, Life cycle cost of the system, Cost
benefit comparison.
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Fundamentals, Design, Modeling and Applications, Narosa, 2002.
2. S. P. Sukhatme and J. K. Nayak,
Solar Energy, McGraw Hill, 2017.
3. Chetan Singh Solanki, Solar
Photovoltaics: Fundamentals, Technologies and Applications, Prentice Hall
India, 2nd Edition, 2011.
4. Chetan Singh Solanki, Solar
Photovoltaic Technology and Systems: A Manual for Technicians, Trainers and
Engineers, Prentice Hall India, 2019.
5. J. A. Duffie and W. A. Beckman,
Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, John Wiley, 2006.
6. D. Y. Goswami, F. Kreith and J.
F. Kreider, Principles of Solar Engineering, Taylor and Francis, 1999.
7. H. P. Garg and J. Prakash, Solar
Energy: Fundamentals and Applications, Tata McGraw Hill, 1997.
8. M. A. Green, Third Generation
Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion, Springer, 2003.
9. A.Goetzberger and V. U. Hoffmann,
Photovoltaic Solar Energy Generation, Springer- -verlag, 2010.
Dr.Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, is
working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Dean
(Student Welfare) at NIT Puducherry. He did B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
and M.Tech., in Energy Technology in Pondicherry Engineering College in the
year of 2001 and 2003. Later, he obtained his Ph.D at IIT Madras in the area of
solar energy in the year of 2008. After his Ph.D., he joined as Senior R&D
Engineer, at CSEM-UAE, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. Later, he joined as a Post-Doctoral
Research Fellowship at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United
Kingdom. He got young faculty award and outstanding researcher award in the
field of Solar Thermal. He received Best Researcher Award from NIT Puducherry
for the year of 2019 - 2020, 2020 – 2021 and 2021- 2022. He was listed as a top
2% scientists in the world - released by Elsevier / Stanford University, USA,
for three times consecutively on October 2023, September 2024 and September
2025.He published 92 International Journals, 49 National and International
conferences and 11 book chapters in the area of energy and his total google
scholar citations is 4326 nos. Based on his research work, he has seven granted
Indian patents in the area of solar energy.
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- Internal Assignment Score: This accounts for 30% of the final grade and is calculated based on the average of the best three assignments out of all the assignments given in the course.
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