Development of Cost Effective Data Acquisition System to Evaluate the Performance of Solar Photovoltaic Thermal Systems

Abstract The thermal and electrical performance of the solar photovoltaic (PV) panel of a solar photovoltaic thermal (PVT) air system is determined experimentally in the present work. For this purpose, a data acquisition system was developed indigenously using ATMEL MEGA 2560 and ATMEL 328 microcontrollers. The parameters measured were PV panel surface temperature, inlet and outlet air temperatures, PV current, and voltage. The parameters were also compared with those of a reference PV system to demonstrate the effect of cooling of PV panel on its electrical power output. The experiments were performed in the locality of Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India (11 deg N latitude, 79 deg E longitude) and the working of the PV data acquisition was tested for a period of 3 months from February to April 2017. The results indicate acceptable working of the indigenously developed PV/PVT data acquisition system.

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Design and implementation of an indoor solar emulator based low-cost autonomous data logger for PV system monitoring

International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) ◽

10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i3.pp1645-1654 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 1645

Author(s):

Oday A. Ahmed ◽

Hussain K Sayed ◽

Kanaan A Jalal ◽

Dhari Y. Mahmood ◽

Waleed H. Habeeb

Keyword(s):

Data Acquisition ◽

Low Cost ◽

Data Acquisition System ◽

Acquisition System ◽

Renewable Energy Resources ◽

Data Logger ◽

Pv System ◽

Partial Shading ◽

Pv Systems ◽

Pv Panel

With the growing interest in renewable energy resources, a various number of studies and development for photovoltaic (PV) systems have investigated to satisfy global needs in energy. The larger interest in PV resources has increased request for suitable apparatus with which to test PV systems. This paper deals with the design of an indoor PV source emulator using an actual PV panel to facilitate PV system testing under real environment conditions. A low-cost Arduino Mega256 microcontroller-based data acquisition system (DAQ) approach has been developed to collect the data in term of voltage, power and current based on different levels of light intensity and temperature as well as under partial shading conditions. Hence, the proposed system is not just a solar emulator but it’s a complete solar emulator-DAQ system that can emulate the sunlight and monitor the PV parameters and then collect and store the data for further research investigation. The proposed monitoring system provides real time update of the solar panel characteristics at any time in the year without relying on the weather changes. This data acquisition system will be of superior interest for undergraduate and graduate students as it is both open-source and ﬂexible. The details design of the proposed PV solar emulator and data logger and its implementation are described.

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Electrical and Meteorological Data Acquisition System of a Commercial and Domestic Microgrid for Monitoring PV Parameters

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app10249092 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (24) ◽

pp. 9092

Author(s):

Edson L. Meyer ◽

Oliver O. Apeh ◽

Ochuko K. Overen

Keyword(s):

Data Acquisition ◽

Solar Irradiance ◽

Power Plants ◽

Meteorological Parameters ◽

Meteorological Data ◽

Data Acquisition System ◽

Operating Conditions ◽

Acquisition System ◽

Data Logger ◽

Pv System

This paper centers on the design and installation of a robust photovoltaic (PV)-based microgrid data acquisition system (DAS) that can monitor different PV systems simultaneously. The PV-based microgrid consists of three solar systems: off-grid, hybrid and grid-assisted systems, each with 3.8 kWp located at SolarWatt park, Fort Hare Institute of Technology (FHIT), South Africa. The designed DAS is achieved by assembling and connecting a set of sensors to measure and log electrical and meteorological parameters from each of the three power plants. Meteorological parameters use a CR1000 datalogger while the electrical output parameters use a DT80 data logger. Calibration was done by voltage signal conditioning which helps to reduce errors initiated by analogue signals. The designed DAS mainly assist in assessing the potential of solar energy of the microgrid power plant considering the energy needed in the remote community. Besides, the simultaneous monitoring of the three systems ensures that the outdoor operating conditions are the same while comparing the logged data. A variable day and a week, data were used to verify the reliability of the system. The back of the array temperature was observed to be 42.7 °C when solar irradiance was 1246 W/m2. The ambient temperature and relative humidity were obtained at 21.3 °C and 63.3%, respectively. The PV current in all three systems increases with the solar irradiance and is highest around midday. The results obtained show that the designed DAS is of great interest in PV system developments.

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Development of a cost-effective Compton camera using a positron emission tomography data acquisition system

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ◽

10.1016/j.nima.2017.10.009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 912 ◽

pp. 20-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yuto Nagao ◽

Mitsutaka Yamaguchi ◽

Naoki Kawachi ◽

Hiroshi Watabe

Keyword(s):

Positron Emission Tomography ◽

Data Acquisition ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Data Acquisition System ◽

Emission Tomography ◽

Acquisition System ◽

Compton Camera ◽

Positron Emission Tomography Data ◽

Positron Emission ◽

Tomography Data

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Implementação de sistema inteligente de aquisição de dados com indicadores de desempenho para miniusina solar fotovoltaica / Implementation of intelligent data acquisition system with performance indicators for solar photovoltaic mini-plant

Brazilian Journal of Development ◽

10.34117/bjdv7n4-078 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 34454-34479

Author(s):

Ivan Alan Soares ◽

Izabella Carneiro Bastos ◽

Daniel Oliveira Guimarães

Keyword(s):

Data Acquisition ◽

Performance Indicators ◽

Data Acquisition System ◽

Acquisition System ◽

Solar Photovoltaic ◽

Intelligent Data Acquisition

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The Mark IV VLBI Data-Acquisition and Correlation System

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900173139 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 156 ◽

pp. 151-157

Author(s):

Alan R. Whitney

Keyword(s):

Data Acquisition ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Data Acquisition System ◽

Data Rate ◽

Acquisition System ◽

The Past ◽

Vlbi Observations ◽

Data Rates ◽

Correlation System ◽

Vlbi Data

Modern VLBI observations for both astronomy and geodesy continue to demand the utmost in sensitivity. Of the methods potentially available for increasing the sensitivity of continuum VLBI observations, increasing the recorded bandwidth is generally the most cost effective.Over the past two years a broadly-supported program has been underway at Haystack Observatory to increase the sensitivity of the Mark IIIA VLBI system by more than a factor of 2. The result is an upgrade to the existing Mark IIIA data-acquisition system, dubbed Mark IV, which increases the maximum data rate to 1024 Mbits/sec, more than quadrupling the maximum data-rate of the Mark IIIA.A new correlator, based on a new custom VLSI correlator chip is also being designed to support the 1 Gbit/sec data rates from the Mark IV data-acquisition-system. An international collaborative effort is being mounted to help defray the high costs of development.

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