scholarly journals Application of Solar Energy Technology in Green Healthcare Camps for Fighting COVID-19 Outbreak in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ashraf Balabel ◽  
Nagy I. Elkalashy ◽  
Mohammed A. Abdel-Hakeem ◽  
Usama Hamed Issa
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Photovoltaic Power ◽  
Service Continuity ◽  
Solar Powered

The healthcare facilities sector is an energy-intensive organization especially at a time of spreading dangerous infectious viruses, such as new Coronavirus, or what is known as COVID-19. Recently, many countries have opened several mobile field quarantine hospitals provided with the required technical equipment to prevent the COVID-19 outbreak in these countries. Unfortunately, most of these healthcare camps are lacking in the application of the necessary sustainability principles and health standards to become green healthcare facilities. Solar energy can be used for various purposes in green healthcare facilities, such as power generation and other sterilized applications. Therefore, in the present paper, a new design for the mobile, quick built, and solar-powered green healthcare camp, in safe and effective 24 hours a day services, is introduced. The proposed green healthcare camp is built using modern building technologies for rapid constructions, in which the building design is proposed to incorporate the photovoltaic power generation consideration. Photovoltaic systems are designed according to the loads required for the operation of the designed model of the green healthcare camp. Moreover, the total cost of a solar-powered green healthcare camp is estimated according to local conditions and standards in Saudi Arabia. The practical recommendations are presented with the designed photovoltaic system to attain the overcurrent and overvoltage protection. The photovoltaic designed system is proposed under the condition of ascertaining the service continuity of the photovoltaic power system during the electric faults in the photovoltaic strings. This is achieved by incorporating series diodes at the terminals of each photovoltaic string. The performance of a 50-kW PV system simulated using Matlab/Simulink is evaluated for the fault disturbance to enhance the service continuity.

scholarly journals Best Practices on Metamodel-Based Photovoltaic Monitoring System with Prediction Method for Photovoltaic Power Generation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 4762
Author(s):  
Woo Sung Jang ◽  
Je Seong Hong ◽  
Jang Hwan Kim ◽  
Byung Kook Jeon ◽  
R. Young Chul Kim
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Prediction Method ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Small Farm ◽  
Energy Company ◽  
Photovoltaic Power

HS Solar Energy Company Inc. in Sejong city, Korea, has a big problem on how to monitor heterogeneous inverters with different protocols. Still a current photovoltaic power plant with different inverters, it has attracted significant attention to its experience of difficulties in monitoring integrated power generation. To solve this problem for the company, we adapt a metamodel mechanism to easily manage and integrate heterogeneous data into a metamodel-based data format. The existing metamodel-based photovoltaic monitoring system (M-PVMS) of the HS solar energy company also needs to simply predict the photovoltaic power generation in a day for small farm owners in the countryside. Therefore, we propose a method for predicting the power generation of M-PVMS panels using the gated recurrent unit (GRU) algorithm, which supports real-time learning to predict the photovoltaic system behavior that rapidly accumulates data in real time. As a result, we can predict the power generation for small farm owners with a probability of 96.353%.

Research on Steric and Multilevel Concentrator for Photovoltaic Generation

2012 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
Xiao Fan Yang ◽  
Zhi Long Xu ◽  
Chao Li ◽  
Zhong Ming Huang
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Price Ratio ◽  
Photovoltaic Generation ◽  
Photovoltaic Power ◽  
Operating Factor ◽  
And Performance

As the development trend of solar energy, which is a green way of energy utilization, photovoltaic power generation has been a research hotspot of solar energy utilization technologies. Using the concentrating and tracking technology to increase the illumination intensity, and obtain more electrical energy, that will reduce the cost of the photovoltaic power generation system sharply. A kind of steric and multilevel concentrator for photovoltaic generation is introduced in this paper, whose concentration ratio is 3. The operating factor of plane mirrors and performance price ratio of the system is increased for optimizing the condensation parameters and structure of the concentrator.

The Research on Solar Cells Based on Improving Conversion Efficiency

2015 ◽  
Vol 730 ◽  
pp. 173-177
Author(s):  
Yu Wen Tang
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Photovoltaic Effect ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Solar Thermal Energy ◽  
Photovoltaic Power

Solar energy is an inexhaustible and renewable energy without environmental pollution. Solar energy can be used in three kinds of forms: solar thermal energy, photochemical conversion and photovoltaic power generation. Among these, the final form of photovoltaic power generation is electricity which can be transported, applied and stored conveniently. On the basis of photovoltaic effect, solar cell is developed as a new technology to convert light energy into electrical energy using semiconductor. Up to now the two key problems of the development of solar cells are how to improve the conversion efficiency and reduce cost. Therefore, the material and production technology used for solar cells are discussed based on improving conversion efficiency in this article.

The Research and First Application on Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System in Substation of AnHui

2011 ◽  
Vol 347-353 ◽  
pp. 1785-1790
Author(s):  
Hong Fu Xie ◽  
Ji Zhang ◽  
Ling Yi Zhang ◽  
Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Anhui Province ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Distributed Power ◽  
Distributed Power Generation ◽  
Actual Application ◽  
Photovoltaic Power ◽  
Power Generation System

The distributed power generation is an energy development way which can most manifest the multiple advantages such as the energy saving, emission reduction, safety and flexible trait. As a kind of distributed power generation technology of renewable energy, photovoltaic power generation has already transited from supplement energy to alternative energy. Although solar photovoltaic power generation industry develops very quickly in China, actual application cases of substation photovoltaic grid-connected power generation system are few. In this paper, the research of photovoltaic grid-connected power generation system is used in Zhuishan substation in Bengbu Anhui province. The system is the first set of substation photovoltaic-connected grid power generation system in Anhui province. It has being operated for three years safety and steady. The whole application of the system is advanced and groundbreaking in the domestic.

scholarly journals Frequency regulation strategy of photovoltaic system based on system identification

2021 ◽  
Vol 252 ◽  
pp. 02082
Author(s):  
Li Zhenjie ◽  
Hou Guangsong ◽  
Cheng Zhaolong ◽  
Niu Wenhui ◽  
Hu Guohua
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
System Identification ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Power Grid ◽  
Frequency Deviation ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Frequency Regulation ◽  
Photovoltaic Power ◽  
System Frequency

The large-scale grid connection of photovoltaic power generation results in the power system frequency fluctuation and frequency regulation capacity decline, which endangers the dynamic security of power grid frequency. In order to reduce the frequency deviation of power grid and tap the potential of photovoltaic power generation participating in frequency regulation, a control method of photovoltaic power participating in frequency regulation of power grid is proposed in this paper. The maximum allowable power of photovoltaic power is predicted through system identification, and the load shedding rate is determined based on this, and the output power is corrected according to the system frequency deviation to participate in frequency regulation of power grid. The model based on MATLAB Simulation results shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

The Review of Photovoltaic Power Generation Technology

2012 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 118-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Song Zhou ◽  
Xue Bo Shen ◽  
You Jie Ma
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Energy Status ◽  
Photovoltaic Generation ◽  
Key Technology ◽  
Photovoltaic Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Power Generation Technology ◽  
Generation Technology

This paper gives an overview of energy status around the world, and shows the importance and prospects of photovoltaic system. It introduces the classification and characteristics of solar of different generation battery in detailed as well as summary of inverter. Finally, some key technology Of connecting grid will be discussed which means great significance to popularizing and spreading of application of Photovoltaic generation.

scholarly journals Analysis of Fire Risk Associated with Photovoltaic Power Generation System

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guomin Zhao ◽  
Min Li ◽  
Lv Jian ◽  
Zhicheng He ◽  
Jin Shuang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Flow Density ◽  
Photovoltaic Systems ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Photovoltaic Power ◽  
Power Generation System ◽  
Flat Roof

Because of increasing energy consumption and severe air pollution in China, solar photovoltaic power generation plants are being deployed rapidly. Owing to various factors such as technology, construction, and imperfection of construction standards, solar photovoltaic systems have certain fire risks. This paper focuses on the fire risks of building-integrated solar photovoltaic buildings, as well as temperature and heat flow density near a photovoltaic system in a fire. Based on FDS simulation results, the influence of different building fires on photovoltaic systems is analysed. It is found that the influence of fire on photovoltaic systems installed on a building with a flat roof is stronger than that on a system installed on a building with a sloping roof; the influence of fire on a photovoltaic system installed on a building with external wall thermal insulation is stronger than that on a system installed on a building without such insulation; and in the presence of a skylight, a photovoltaic system installed on a building with a sloping roof is more dangerous.

Study on Green Low Carbon Building Design Based on Photovoltaic Power Generation Technology

2012 ◽  
Vol 193-194 ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
Xiao Fu ◽  
Shi Guang Shen ◽  
Jie Yin
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Photovoltaic Power ◽  
Passive Design ◽  
Power Generation Technology ◽  
Generation Technology

Under the background of global warming, green low carbon buildings have become a trend which is considered to reduce the carbon emissions. This paper, on the basis of analysis on the traditional low carbon building design methods, puts forward a new concept of design supported by the technology of photovoltaic power generation. This paper introduces the development and principles of photovoltaic power generation and emphasizes the BIPV technology. Green low carbon building design based on BIPV can be divided into active and passive design, which all has a positive influence on the green low carbon design.

scholarly journals Innovative Design of Solar-Powered Desalination (SPD) System using Vacuum-Multi Effect Membrane Distillation (V-MEMD) Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 08010
Author(s):  
Achmad Chafidz ◽  
Faisal RM ◽  
Esa D. Kerme ◽  
Irfan Wazeer ◽  
Saeed M. AlZahrani
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Saline Water ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Solar Irradiation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Produce Water ◽  
Solar Powered

This research focused on the development of an innovative design of solar-powered desalination (SPD) system which was expected to solve the water and energy problem simultaneously. We have developed a portable and hybrid solar-powered desalination (SPD) system for producing potable water from saline water. It is a self-contained and integrated system which combines solar-thermal collector and solar-photovoltaic for its operation, and thus the system can operate to produce water by only using solar energy. Therefore, the system is highly suitable to be implemented in remote arid and coastal areas without infrastructures or connection to the grid (water and power), but blessed with abundant solar irradiation, like in Saudi Arabia. A Memsys Vacuum Multi-Effect Membrane Distillation (V-MEMD) unit was used as the core of the SPD system. A heat pump was also integrated into the SPD system for energy recovery and to improve the performance of the system. The system could be considered as sustainable and “green” desalination technology, which will be very useful for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To study the performance of the system, small-scale tests have been carried out at the Engineering College - King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Based on the experimental results, the system has run successfully by only utilizing solar energy.

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