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The document discusses various types of green energy sources including solar energy, biomass, wind energy, geothermal energy, and hydro-power. For each type, it provides details on the process, largest producers worldwide and in India, advantages, limitations, and applications. Green energy is defined as energy with negligible environmental impact and includes natural sources like sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat. China is typically the largest producer of many green energy types globally.

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The document discusses various types of green energy sources including solar energy, biomass, wind energy, geothermal energy, and hydro-power. For each type, it provides details on the process, largest producers worldwide and in India, advantages, limitations, and applications. Green energy is defined as energy with negligible environmental impact and includes natural sources like sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat. China is typically the largest producer of many green energy types globally.

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DAYANANDA SAGAR ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY &

MANAGEMENT

A seminar report on Green Energy By


D HARSHA VARDHAN REDDY
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
TYPES
SOLAR ENERGY
BIOMASS
WIND ENERGY
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
HYDRO-POWER
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION

Green energy includes natural energetic processes that can be


harnessed with little pollution. Green power is electricity
generated fromrenewable energysources.

Green energy can be defined as any energy with negligible


impact on greenhouse gas emissions.
Therefore the term green does not mean these are the most
suitable and effective sources of energy but in that they are
environmental friendly working against some forms of pollution
without depleting resources.
TYPES OF GREEN ENERGIES
Greenenergy comes from natural sources such as sunlight, wind,
rain, tides, plants, algae and geothermal heat, all of which are
renewable, meaning they're naturally replenished.
Based on the availability and environment factors, the different
types of green energies are
Solar Energy
Biomass Energy
Wind Energy
Geothermal Energy
Hydro-Power Energy
SOLAR ENERGY
Solar energy usage is on the rise in residential areas, rural areas
where people use solar panels since its economical.
Solar energy can be produced by two ways.
Solar-Thermal
o Central Receiver
o Through Based
o Dish Based
Solar Photovoltaic
China is the largest producer with 77.42 Gigawatts in the world
and Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu, is the largest in India with 648 MW.
PROBLEMS
The sun has to shine.

The cost of solar panels and the system range between Rs 1-1.5 Lakhs.

The light from the sun produces a very small amount of energy

USES
Solar power pumps

Solar energy for battery charging

Solar energy for household appliances


BIOMASS
Biomassis an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and
otherorganic matter.
Burning biomass releases carbon emissions, around a quarter higher
than burning coal.
Biomass most often refers to plants or plant-based materials that are
not used for food or feed, and are specifically calledlignocellulosic
biomass.
United States is the largest producer of biomass with 48,563 GWh in
the world and Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd. Is the largest producer in
India with 28.080 MW and started producing in 2010.
Anaerobic decomposition of organic materials produces bio-gas which
is a mixture of methane (nearly 70%) and carbon dioxide. In a biogas
plant, the animal wastes and sewage sludge etc. in the form of a slurry
is fermented anaerobically to form biogas.
The resulting slurry which retains all the nitrogen, phosphorus and
potassium present in the livestock wastes can be used as an excellent
fertilizer because the fertilizing components in the digested slurry are
in a form directly usable by the plants.
Biogas has a high calorific value (5000 to 5500 kcal/kg) and can be
used for cooking purposes, for operating small engines for pumping
water, for lighting, in space heating and in bio-gas plants (as a fuel for
the boilers or engines or generators etc.).
ADVANTAGES
Plants ensure a continuous supply of energy due to their continuous
growth.
Cost of obtaining bio-energy through plantations is lesser than cost of
obtaining energy from fossil fuels.
Ash produced as a result of combustion of vegetable matter is rich m
plant nutrient minerals.
APPLICATIONS
These applications can be at a small scale (e.g., to cook or make hot water
in individual buildings) or at a large scale (e.g., to generate ethanol,
biodiesel,biogas, or electricity for general distribution).
WIND ENERGY
Wind energy is an important non-conventional source of energy. There
is a simple relation between wind, velocity and power.
The energy possessed by wind is because of its high speed. The source
of wind power is inherent in solar energy.
Our earth gets only 2,000 millionth part of the total solar energy out
of which about 20 per cent is converted into kinetic wind energy.
If a wind with a velocity of 10 km per hour gives one horse power, a 20
kmph wind will produce 8 hp.
China is the largest producer of wind energy with 114,763 MW with
31% of the global total.
Tamil Nadu is the largest producer with 7,684.31 MW in India.

ADVANTAGES
Wind power is abundantly available, free of cost and is pollution free.
The wind is more reliable high above the ground level in many
mountainous regions
For regions remote from coal or oil fields and with ample wind
available, wind power is a blessing.
LIMITATIONS
Wind is erratic and unreliable. It requires special conditions for its economic
exploitation.
It is not available in all the places to do various types of work.
Location of wind farms on migratory routes could spell hazard to birds and
disaster for some aviation populations.
APPLICATIONS
In India, the exercise to harness wind energy includes wind pump, wind battery
charges, wind electricity generators and grid connected wind farms.
The Kharif crop, normally between June and October, is largely rainfed. Wind
mills could however be used to pump water for rural irrigation in the Rabi season.
Wind energy may be converted into mechanical and electrical energy. About
20,000 MW of electricity may be generated in India from wind.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
Geothermal energy is the heat energy stored beneath the surface in the form
of hot spring and geysers it is the exploitation of heat energy of earth within
the upper 10 km of the earth crust.
Heat from the molten core of the earth offers a huge and sustainable energy
source.
The limitless heat from the interior of earth is used to convert water into
steam. In volcanic regions of the earth, the hot rock is relatively close to the
surface.
Also in such regions sometimes, the natural groundwater comes in contact with
the hot rock and the heated water or steam may find its way to the surface
through natural steam vents.
In such regions, holes can be drilled into the hot rock groundwater structure
and make the rising steam to drive turbo generators to produce electric power.
The world's largest geothermal energy production facilities exist at a location known
as "The Geysor" near San Francisco in US.
San Francisco, California, Italy and U.S.A. are the largest users of geothermal
energy today. Other users are New Zealand, Japan and Mexico.
India's most promising geothermal field is Puga Valley in Ladakh.
As Ladakh has no energy resources like coal, petroleum etc., harnessing of
geothermal energy has been engaging the attention of scientists from RRL, Jammu
They have successfully used this energy for extraction and refining of borax, sulphur
and salt in the valley, besides demonstrating its use for space heating.
ADVANTAGES
Very few moving parts, hence low maintenance costs involved.
Geothermal energy is renewable energy because once water or steam is used,
it can be pumped back into the ground.
Geothermal power plants, unlike plants that burn fossil fuels, do not produce
greenhouse gases that can be harmful to the atmosphere
It is inexpensive to use.
DISADVANTAGES
The steam brings hydrogen sulphide gas to the surface and pollutes the air
unless controls are instituted.
Water contains many salts and minerals capable of causing water pollution.
The earth in a geothermal field may subside as the water is pumped out.
APPLICATIONS
Used forheating, cooling and producing domestic hot water in individual
housing.
Timber can be dried using heat from geothermal energy.
Geothermal energy helps dry out plants, making powders and concentrates
that are used in food processing.
Foods can be cooked, steamed, or prepared in other ways using geothermal
energy as well.
HYDRO POWER ENERGY
Hydro-power is the energy harnessed from running water-streams,
rivers or any other artificial or natural water flow. It is one of the
oldest method of energy production.
Even in the medieval period, people used to derive energy from water
wheels.
The contribution of hydel power in the world energy production
scenario is immense and ever-increasing.
China is the worlds largest producer of the hydro-electricity and this can be
attributed to Three Gorges Dam, built on the river Yangtze, which have the
installed capacity of 20,300 MW.

Three Gorges Dam Koyna Hydroelectric Project


TheKoyna Hydroelectric Project, Koyna River,Maharashtrais the largest
completedhydroelectricpower plant inIndia. The total capacity of the
project is1,960MW.
ADVANTAGES
It is the cheapest and the most versatile power of all the known energy sources
& does not create problems of pollution.
Coal, Oil and Gas would be exhausted sooner or later, but water shall remain ever
to serve different needs of man and animal.
Water is an inexhaustible source of power. Thus, it is a reliable source of power.
DISADVANTAGES
Initial construction cost of hydel plant is immense. It requires years for
completion of the project.
Construction of hydel project require huge area. Transport of electricity
requires huge infrastructure. So, cost per unit of electricity escalates.
Besides, loss of electricity due to long-distance, transmission is also
uneconomical.
CONCLUSION
To make sure we have plenty of energy in future, its up to all of us to use
energy wisely. We must all conserve energy and use it efficiently. Its
also up to those who will create the new energy technologies of the
future. As the concern about the availability and environmental impacts
of fossil fuels become more wide spread, the interest on green energy
technologies will surely take centre stage among engineers and policy
makers.
THANK YOU

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