Development of Software for Analyzing of Solar Irradiance and Sizing of Stand-Alone PV Power Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 700 ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Mauricio Mauledoux ◽  
Oscar I. Caldas ◽  
Oscar F. Avilés
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Period Range ◽  
Sequential Structure ◽  
Bright Sunlight ◽  
Average Irradiance ◽  
Nueva Granada

An analyzing software was developed for studying the solar irradiance on the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (UMNG) Campus, as well as for sizing a stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system in terms of power generation and energy storage, which is intended to be part of an hybrid DC smart grid with several energy sources, including not only solar but additional renewable. This software has a two stage sequential structure: First, it let to calculate the total solar energy resource and define the average irradiance and its variability for several user-defined periods, i.e. daily, monthly, annual and even multiannual. Simultaneously, the software gives the user a graphical data variation, where irradiance in hours of bright sunlight (at Standard Test Conditions - STC: 1 kWh/m2) and variability are organized in a period range (hours, days or months). The sizing stage let to define the system architecture in terms of modules and batteries, i.e. estimate PV network and battery bank. Finally, after providing load, voltage level and autonomy, it proceeds to calculations, considering factors of safety.

scholarly journals State-Space Model of Quasi-Z-Source Inverter-PV Systems for Transient Dynamics Studies and Network Stability Assessment

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4150
Author(s):  
Lluís Monjo ◽  
Luis Sainz ◽  
Juan José Mesas ◽  
Joaquín Pedra
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
State Space ◽  
State Space Model ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Pv Systems ◽  
Renewable Power ◽  
Ac Networks ◽  
Transient Interactions ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Averaged Model

Photovoltaic (PV) power systems are increasingly being used as renewable power generation sources. Quasi-Z-source inverters (qZSI) are a recent, high-potential technology that can be used to integrate PV power systems into AC networks. Simultaneously, concerns regarding the stability of PV power systems are increasing. Converters reduce the damping of grid-connected converter systems, leading to instability. Several studies have analyzed the stability and dynamics of qZSI, although the characterization of qZSI-PV system dynamics in order to study transient interactions and stability has not yet been properly completed. This paper contributes a small-signal, state-space-averaged model of qZSI-PV systems in order to study these issues. The model is also applied to investigate the stability of PV power systems by analyzing the influence of system parameters. Moreover, solutions to mitigate the instabilities are proposed and the stability is verified using PSCAD time domain simulations.

A Solar Irradiance Data Acquisition System Based on Labview

2015 ◽  
Vol 719-720 ◽  
pp. 596-599
Author(s):  
Xin Wen Duan ◽  
Yue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Instrument ◽  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Data Acquisition System ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Acquisition System ◽  
External Temperature ◽  
Irradiance Data ◽  
Instrument Technology ◽  
Software And Hardware

The application of virtual instrument technology to design solar irradiance acquisition system, an ideal combination of software and hardware, is aimed at collecting, storing and analyzing data of external temperature and solar irradiance.The data proves helpful in assessing whether the solar energy resource deserves to be developded economically.The system is reliable and has been verified by simulation software proteus.

scholarly journals Energy Sustainability Study of a Rural ICT Telecenter at the Bario Highland

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Omar Abdullah ◽  
Voon Chun Yung ◽  
Audra Anak Jom ◽  
Alvin Yeo Wee ◽  
Martin Anyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Combined System ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Simple Method

The eBario project has won the eAsia Award and the Mondialogo Engineering Award in 2004 and 2005 respectively for it’s successful implementation of an Information and Telecommunications Technology Center (ICT) and solar renewable energy-incentive rural community project at the Bario Highland of Sarawak, East Malaysia, Borneo (http://www.unimas.my/ebario/). Although solar photovoltaic (PV) energy has been opted for power generation at the ICT Telecenter for the past five years, there is still a need to investigate the cost-effectiveness of the current energy setup as well as to conduct sustainability study taking into account factors such as system efficiency, weather, costs of fuel, operating costs, as well as to explore the feasibility of implementing alternative energy resources for the rural ICT Telecenter. Recent theoretical study conducted has shown that renewable combined power systems are more sustainable in terms of supplying electricity to the ICT Telecenter, and in a more cost-effective way compared to a standalone PV system which is subject to the cloud and the recent dense haze problems. For that purpose, two combined power systems are being put into consideration namely PV-Hydro and PV-Hydro-Fuel Cell, where the total simulated annualized cost for these two system configurations are US$10,847 and US$76,010 respectively as far as the present location is concerned. The PVHydro-Fuel Cell produces electrical energy at the amount of 3,577 kWh/yr while the annual energy consumption is 3,203 kWhr/yr. On the other hand, PV-Hydro produces 3,789 kWhr/yr of electricity annually load which consumes energy at 3,209 kWhr/yr. Results thus obtained has shown that the PVHydro scheme is expected to have advantages over the existing PV standalone system. Firstly, it is more cost-effective. Secondly, it provides the best outcomes for the local indigenous community and the natural highland environments both for now and the future. Thirdly, it also able to relate the continuity of both economic and social aspects of the local society as a whole. As the combined PV-Hydro system had been chosen, plus for completeness purposes, the present paper also discussed the custom design and construction of a small waterwheel breast-shot hydro-generator, suited to the local location and existing water energy resources. Energy saving design calculations and Sankey diagram showing the energy flows for the new combined system are also given herein. Finally, the energy system performance equations and the performance curves introduced in this study provide a new simple method of evaluating renewable energy systems.

scholarly journals Decoupled Control of Three Phase Grid Connected Solar PV System

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4218-4222
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Decoupled Control

A reliable grid connected Photovoltaic (PV) system require effective control schemes for efficient use of solar energy. This paper presents a three-phase grid tied PV system with decoupled real and reactive power control to achieve desired power factor with Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) controller to get maximum solar energy. The synchronous reference frame (dq) control along with decoupling concept is used to control the DC-AC inverter output, while the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) synchronization technique is used to monitor and synchronize the voltage and current at the grid side. The DC-DC converter with Incremental Conductance (InC) based MPPT model is also designed in this paper due to better accuracy compared to Perturb & Observe (P&O) algorithm. The simulation is performed in MATLAB/SIMULINK and a 31.5 kW PV system is modelled to get 30 kW power with the help of MPPT at Standard Test Conditions (STC). Any power factor value between 0.85 lagging to 0.9 leading can be obtained by changingreference q current in this inverter control strategy. The simulation results show that the change of reactive powerdoes not affecttheactive power values of the system, which verifies the effectiveness of the decoupled control strategy of the inverter.

scholarly journals A Linear Regression Model for THD Sensitivity in PV Based Microgrid with Varying Insolation Levels

2022 ◽  
pp. 179-186
Author(s):  
Yuvraj Praveen Soni ◽  
Eugene Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Linear Regression Model ◽  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
System Control ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Simulink Model ◽  
The Impact

Solar PV systems can be used for powering small microgrids in rural area of developing countries. Generally, a solar power microgrid consists of a PV array, an MPPT, a dc-dc converter and an inverter, particularly as the general loads are A.C in nature. In a PV system, reactive current, unbalancing in currents, and harmonics are generated due to the power electronics-based converters as well as nonlinear loads (computers induction motors etc). Thus, estimation of the harmonics levels measured by the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is an essential aspect of performance assessment of a solar powered microgrid. A major issue that needs to be examined is the impact of PV system control parameters on the THD. In this paper, we take up this assessment for a small PV based rural microgrid with varying levels of solar irradiance. A Simulink model has been developed for the study from which the THD at equilibrium conditions is estimated. This data is in turn used to design a generalized Linear Regression Model, which can be used to observe the sensitivity of three control variables on the magnitude of the THD. These variables are: Solar Irradiance levels, Power Factor (PF) of connected load magnitude of the connected load (in kVA) The results obtained show that the greatest sensitivity is obtained for load kVA variation.

A Novel Optimization Algorithm for Transient Stability Constrained Optimal Power Flow

2016 ◽  
pp. 147-176
Author(s):  
Sourav Paul ◽  
Provas Kumar Roy
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
New England ◽  
Power Flow ◽  
Optimal Power Flow ◽  
Transient Stability ◽  
Linear Optimization ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Optimal Power ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Bus System

Optimal power flow with transient stability constraints (TSCOPF) becomes an effective tool of many problems in power systems since it simultaneously considers economy and dynamic stability of power system. TSC-OPF is a non-linear optimization problem which is not easy to deal directly because of its huge dimension. This paper presents a novel and efficient optimisation approach named the teaching learning based optimisation (TLBO) for solving the TSCOPF problem. The quality and usefulness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated through its application to four standard test systems namely, IEEE 30-bus system, IEEE 118-bus system, WSCC 3-generator 9-bus system and New England 10-generator 39-bus system. To demonstrate the applicability and validity of the proposed method, the results obtained from the proposed algorithm are compared with those obtained from other algorithms available in the literature. The experimental results show that the proposed TLBO approach is comparatively capable of obtaining higher quality solution and faster computational time.

Enhanced MPPT technique for rapid varying solar irradiance in a PV system

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Zair Hussain ◽  
Freddy Tan Kheng Suan
Keyword(s):  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Pv System

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

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.

scholarly journals Methods for Aggregation and Remuneration of Distributed Energy Resources

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Faria ◽  
João Spínola ◽  
Zita Vale
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Distributed Energy Resources ◽  
Virtual Power ◽  
Distributed Energy ◽  
Distributed Energy Resource ◽  
Technical Operation ◽  
Made In

Distributed energy resource integration in power systems has advantages and challenges in both the economic and the technical operation of the system. An aggregator, as in the case of a Virtual Power Player, is essential in order to support the operation of these small size resources. Innovative approaches capable of supporting the decisions made in terms of resource scheduling, aggregation and remuneration are needed. The present paper addresses a methodology capable of managing resources through the activities of an aggregator, providing different choices of aggregation and remuneration strategies. The methodology is validated in a case study regarding a 21-bus network, composed of 20 consumers and 26 producers.

Elman Neural Network for Dynamic Control of Wind Power Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 479-480 ◽  
pp. 570-574
Author(s):  
Cong Hui Huang ◽  
Chih Ming Hong ◽  
Yih Feng Su ◽  
Song Mao Lee ◽  
Chuan Sing Jhuang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Radial Basis Function Network ◽  
Dynamic Control ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Elman Neural Network ◽  
Power Sources ◽  
Point Tracking

This paper presents Elman neural network for the dynamic control strategies of a hybrid power system that include wind/photovoltaic/diesel system. Wind and PV power are the primary power sources of the system to take full advantages of renewable energy, and the diesel-engine is used as a backup system. A simulation model for the hybrid energy system has been developed using MATLAB/Simulink. To achieve a fast and stable response for the real power control, the intelligent controller consists of a Radial Basis Function Network (RBFN) and an modified Elman Neural Network (ENN) for maximum power point tracking (MPPT). The pitch angle of wind turbine is controlled by ENN, and the PV system uses RBFN, where the output signal is used to control the DC / DC boost converters to achieve the MPPT.

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