EE Seminar: Practical-Optimal design of grid connected PV system

~~Speaker: Avi Aronescu
M.Sc. student under the supervision of Prof. Appelbaum Joseph

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015  at  15:00
Room 011, Kitot Bldg., Faculty of Engineering

Practical-Optimal design of grid connected PV system
Abstract
   As the world's energy demand increases, more and more are turning to renewable energy sources. On this work we will focus on a practical approach of designing a grid connected PV system. Any grid connected PV system is based upon 2 fundamental building blocks. The first is of course the PV panel (or module). The Second is the Inverter, which converts DC energy to AC energy and injects it to the power grid. For practical design one must take into account the PV panel and inverter specs such as voltages, power, etc. The design must also take into account the different losses such as mutual shading, cable power losses, dust, etc.
Due to the mutual shading between collector rows in contrast to the goal of producing a required amount of energy from a given field size or least cost per unit energy we may define optimization problems. For example, what is the maximum output energy of a PV system from a given area or what is the minimum cost of the PV system? These problems depend on the PV systems practical design parameters. The final purpose is to present a practical optimal design of a grid connected PV system.