-This scheme presents an integrated solution for Photo Voltaic cell(PV) fed water-pump drive machine which uses an Open-End Winding Induction Motor (OEWIM). The dual inverter fed OEWIM drive achieves the functionality of a three level inverter and needs low value DC bus voltage. This helps in optimal arrangement of Photo voltaic cells, this can avoid large strings and helps in improving the PV ...

The electrical and thermal energy generated by a Photo-voltaic (PV) module is based on the amount of the solar radiation directed on the PV module. In this study, a Photo-voltaic Thermal (PVT) system is constructed to maximize the electrical energy generation through the fast removal of heat through a new phase layered topology. The combinations of aluminum plate and heatsinks are used to trans...

This paper proposes a hybrid energy conversion system combing photo voltaic and wind turbine as a small-scale alternative source of electrical energy. The set-up consists of a photo-voltaic solar-cell array, a mast mounted wind generator, lead-acid storage batteries, a PWM inverter unit to convert DC power to AC power, IGBT and 3-phase loads. Thus Hybridizing solar and wind power sources togeth...

The ascending trend of photo-voltaic (PV) utilization on a domestic scale in Finland, calls for a technical aspects review of low voltage (LV) networks. This work investigates the technical factors that limit the PV hosting capacity, in realistic case networks, designed relative to different geographical areas of Finland. A Monte Carlo method based analysis was performed, in order to quantify t...

This paper presents a novel concept of utilizing the photo voltaic solar farm inverter as STATCOM(Static Compensator), named PV-STATCOM, in order to improve the voltage profile of the power system. The entire STATCOM is able to transmit either active or reactive power into the grid. This system is connected to a 14 BUS IEEE standard grid as a case study to simulate the performance of the system...

In this paper, modeling and simulation of the solar photo-voltaic (PV) power generator is observed using Matlab-Simulink environment. The study the fore-mentioned photovoltaic systems in an efficient manner the knowledge of I-V and P-V characteristics is a prerequisite. Effect of environmental parameters of temperature and irradiance variations could also be observed from simulated characterist...

This paper presents a method to determine the internal resistance of a bank of deep-cycle lead acid batteries that are part of a stand-alone photo-voltaic system. Both the charge and discharge resistances are calculated as a function of the state-of-charge (SOC) of the battery from daily variations in battery terminal voltage as well as charge and discharge currents. The method is illustrated b...

This paper focus on a special type of inverter topology for photo voltaic applications. The proposed system is a grid connected inverter system based on interleaved flyback topology. Aim of this paper is to design flyback inverter at high power because today’s PV inverter technology based on this topology only used at very low power as micro inverter. The analysis of proposed flyback inverter a...

Photo voltaic based distributed generation system has seen a wide spread interest in research community because of growing energy needs. For efficient distributed generation system, a PV cell is connected with a DC-DC converter and DC-AC inverter. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is used to extract maximum power from the PV cell. There are different MPPT algorithms such as perturb ...

In this paper a hybrid distributed generation (DG) system connected to isolated load is studied. The DG system consisting of photo voltaic (PV) system, fuel cells, aqua electrolyzer, diesel engine generator and a battery energy storage system. The ambient temperature value of PV is taken as constant to make the output power of PV is directly proportional to the radiation and output power of oth...