today, due to qualitative growth and scientific advances, energy, especially electricity is increasingly needed by human society. one of the almost endless and pure energy which have been paid attention over the years is the solar energy. solar cells directly convert solar energy into electrical energy and are one of the main blocks of photovoltaic systems. significant improvement has been made...

Photovoltaic energy has become a popular renewable energy source for sustainable urban development. As a result, 3D solar radiation models are needed to facilitate the interactive assessment of photovoltaic potential in complex urban environments. SURFSUN3D is a visualization-oriented full 3D solar radiation model that has been shown to achieve efficient computation and visualization for 3D urb...

A hybrid photovoltaic-thermoelectric (PV-TE) system employing a novel solar concentrator is designed and constructed to demonstrate the feasibility of improving overall efficiency light-to-electricity conversion based on spectral splitting strategy. The consists four rectangular dichroic mirrors arranged in crossed V-trough configuration that reflects concentrates visible spectrum onto photovol...

In this study the photovoltaic system, which is a part of the hybrid system composed of solar and wind turbine also which is being planned to be settled at Söke Vocational School was examined. Primarily the photovoltaic system was settled in order to provide exterior lighting at Vocational school. The power of the photovoltaic system is 560Wp, and also it is able to provide exterior lighting fo...

Solar energy is one of the important renewable energy available. The efficient usage of solar energy can yield better power output which can be used as an alternate fuel for conventional energy sources. The Photovoltaic cells are used to generate power from solar energy. In this paper we have dealt with the modelling and analysis of photovoltaic cells with varying temperature values of differen...

In this paper, it is shown that a combination of PV solar farm and storage batteries can be advantageous in a distribution system having wind farm in close vicinity to the solar Farm. This concept utilizes the photovoltaic (PV) solar farm (SF) as Flexible ac transmission system controller-static synchronous compensator, to regulate the point of common coupling voltage during night time when the...

In this paper the authors have developed an isolated network for very low voltage (VLV) decentralized energy production and storage based on renewable energy (hybrid system: photovoltaic and wind). An energy based model of stand-alone hybrid photovoltaic-wind generating system is presented, using bond graph approach. An equivalent average modeling of a hybrid photovoltaic-wind generating system...

Hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) collector, combining photovoltaic cells with a solar thermal collector, can simultaneously convert solar energy into electricity and heat energy. In this paper, a novel photovoltaic/thermal integrated heat pump (PV/T-HP) system was developed, in which the PV/T collector also acted as evaporator of heat pump. Two types of PV/T collectors with conventional coppe...

The non conventional energy sources overcomes the drawback of Conventional energy sources, drawbacks like depletion, increasing cost, global warming etc. Among the all non conventional sources , solar energy is widely used as it can directly convert solar energy solar energy into electrical form with solar photovoltaic cell (PV Cell). Energy produced by PV cell is varying with partially shading...