Renewable energy is considered as next alternative to fossil fuels and nowadays, it attracts much attention in agriculture environmental protection. Application of solar photovoltaic system drying dehydration products, heating, irrigation, greenhouse power generation etc. Temperature sun radiation varies nonlinearly. Power with reference temperature photo-voltaic (PV) system. PV characteristic ...

As an earth-abundant p-type semiconductor, copper sulfide (Cu2S) is an attractive material for application in photovoltaic devices. However, it suffers from a minority carrier diffusion length that is less than the length required for complete light absorption. Core-shell nanowires and nanorods have the potential to alleviate this difficulty because they decouple the length scales of light abso...

This work proposes a novel fault diagnostic technique for photovoltaic systems based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). For a given set of working conditions solar irradiance and photovoltaic (PV) module's temperature a number of attributes such as current, voltage, and number of peaks in the current evoltage (IeV) characteristics of the PV strings are calculated using a simulation model. The...

As the world’s power demand is increases photovoltaic power supply to the utility grid is gaining more and more visibility. The user wants to utilize maximum solar power of an array by operating the photovoltaic array at it’s highest energy conversion output. The electrical design considerations due to varying nature of the solar power generated resulting from unpredictable and sudden changes i...

This paper presents a design for a stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system to provide the required electricity for a single residential household in rural area in Jordan. The complete design steps for the suggested household loads are carried out. Site radiation data and the electrical load data of a typical household in the considered site are taken into account during the design steps. The relia...

In this project a Microgrid consisting of different distributed generation (DG) units are presented. These distributed generation (DG) units are connected to the distribution grid. The distributed energy resources are necessary to saving the energy for future use. Here an Energy-management algorithm is implemented to coordinate the operations of the different DG units in the Microgrid for grid-...

6.1 INTRODUCTION The previous chapters have discussed the development of the MPPT algorithm and the control of the DC-DC converter in a standalone PV system. A grid-connected PV system is composed of a photovoltaic array, DC-DC converter, DC link capacitor, single phase DC-AC inverter, filter inductor, power grid, and non-linear load. The grid interconnection of a PV power generation system has...