This paper proposes a stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system based on a DC-DC positive output super lift Luo (POSLL) converter. A conventional sliding mode control, a sliding mode controller using a simple sign function and a linear controller using proportional integrator (PI) are used for the control of the PV panel voltage and POSLL converter inductor current and these methods are compared tog...

A hybrid system is described that combines the features of two solar technologies – photo-voltaic conversion to electricity (PV) and thermal conversion to heat and finally to electric energy for battery usage. Under the condition of the same output power of photovoltaic system, using low cost superiority of the high concentrator material in place of the expensive solar cell to reduce the compre...

This paper describes the development stages and performance of a solar powered thermoelectric refrigerator. It is carried out by installing a conventional thermoelectric refrigerator in a stand alone photovoltaic system for household usage. This photovoltaic driven refrigerator is powered by a field of solar panels, a battery bank, a solar charge controller, and an inverter. In this project, th...

The floating photovoltaic system is a new concept in energy technology to meet the needs of our time. The system integrates existing land based photovoltaic technology with a newly developed floating photovoltaic technology. Because module temperature of floating PV system is lower than that of overland PV system, the floating PV system has 11% better generation efficiency than overland PV syst...

There are 1.3 billion people living without electricity, a large portion of which is in the bottom of the economic pyramid. Rural electrification via photovoltaic systems is one possible solution to alleviate their poverty. The aim of this article is to qualitatively investigate the potential for the transition towards off-grid photovoltaic systems. Two interrelated aspects are specifically inv...

The aim of this paper was to present an optimized method in order to use maximum capacity of the photovoltaic panels. In this regard, we presented a method for the maximum power point tracking in the photovoltaic systems by using the neural networks and adaptive controller. In the proposed system, we estimated an error by using neural network. If this error is lower than the allowable systems e...

Growing energy demand and environmental consciousness have reevoked human interest in grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems. This work is focused on the modelling and simulation studies of the dynamic behaviour of a grid connected photovoltaic system. The model is implemented using MATLAB/Simulink with the SimPowerSystems Block Set. This work also presents the results of a comparative study ...

the present article investigates the application of high order tsk (takagi sugeno kang) fuzzy systems in modeling photo voltaic (pv) cell characteristics. a method has been introduced for training second order tsk fuzzy systems using anfis (artificial neural fuzzy inference system) training method. it is clear that higher order tsk fuzzy systems are more precise approximators while they cover n...

A solar trigeneration system for off-grid households, based on photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) collectors, photovoltaic (PV) modules and a heat pump (HP), whose aim is to provide enough electricity, domestic hot water (DHW), heating and cooling power to meet the typical demand of an offgrid single family dwelling, is modeled to predict its performance, enable system sizing and evaluate the impact o...

Multilevel voltage source inverters offer several advantages compared to their conventional counterparts. By synthesising the AC output terminal voltage from several levels of voltages, staircase waveforms can be produced, which approach the sinusoidal waveform with low harmonic distortion, thus reducing filter requirements. The need of several sources on the DC side of the converter makes mult...