Assessment of Renewable Energy Sources in MPKV Rahuri

The book highlights the constructive development of the energy resources and is an attempt to resource the unused energy sources to drive our daily activities. The work focuses on solar thermal system with scheffler technology and fixed dome type biogas plant for generation of electricity in the college and dairy farm respectively. The individual units are placed at its own place to fulfill their own requirement. Addition to this existing 450 street lights are replaced by the solar street lights, that will reduce the significant electricity requirement of the whole campus and togetherly this will leads towards green university proposal. It shows that if these systems are set at dairy farm and college building of University then they will be totally independent in terms of electricity requirement.

Er.Ms.Pradnya Balkrishna Jadhav completed her B. Tech (Agril. Engg.) from MPKV, Rahuri (MS) and M. Tech (Agril. Engg.) with specialization in Irrigation and Drainage Engineering from DBSKKV, Dapoli(MS). Presently she is doing Ph.D. from Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering in MPKV, Rahuri(MS).