REET 4210:Oceanic and Hydropower Generation

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MET 3401, and MET 3101
General concepts of thermodynamic processes and cycles will be reviewed in the beginning. The course has two different sections. In the first section, “Energy from the Ocean” will be studied. In this section, first “Ocean Temperature Energy Conversion” (OTEC) will be discussed and then “Open and closed OTEC cycles” will be covered. This section will be continued with ocean waves, wave motion, energy and power from waves, wave-energy conversion by floats, different types of “wave machines” and poll tidal systems. In the second section, other “Hydropower generation methods” will be addressed. In this section, different types of hydropower generation such as hydroelectric dams, run-of-the-river hydroelectricity, and pumped-storage hydroelectricity will be discussed. This section includes different types of impulse and reaction water turbines. The course concludes with a design project of a “Hydropower Generation System”.