Design and development of solar energy system for use in isolated home in Singapore

Renewable energy has been a research area of exponentially increasing interest since the past decade along with the more attention that people pay to environment and energy problems. The growing demand for clean sources of energy has expanded dramatically in recent years as conventional energy like...

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Main Author: Ang, Hui Ru
Other Authors: So Ping Lam
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/17058
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description Renewable energy has been a research area of exponentially increasing interest since the past decade along with the more attention that people pay to environment and energy problems. The growing demand for clean sources of energy has expanded dramatically in recent years as conventional energy like oil becomes scarce and more expensive. Because of this growth, it has lead to demand for searching alternative source energy. Therefore, the aim of this project is to build a solar energy system in an isolated home. This project focuses on two parts. It started on design and development of the inverter system. The inverter system consist of a basic DC-DC boost converter topology to boost the DC voltage from the charge controller to a higher voltage level for the DC-AC inverter and the single-phase full bridge inverter to converter the DC voltage to an AC voltage of 230Vac at 50Hz. The second parts followed by studying the photovoltaic (PV) module to find its characteristics and maximum power point under various solar radiations. Simulations were carried out using PSIM software for verification before hardware circuits were developed for actual implementation.
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spelling ntu-10356/170582023-07-07T16:12:00Z Design and development of solar energy system for use in isolated home in Singapore Ang, Hui Ru So Ping Lam School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electric power Renewable energy has been a research area of exponentially increasing interest since the past decade along with the more attention that people pay to environment and energy problems. The growing demand for clean sources of energy has expanded dramatically in recent years as conventional energy like oil becomes scarce and more expensive. Because of this growth, it has lead to demand for searching alternative source energy. Therefore, the aim of this project is to build a solar energy system in an isolated home. This project focuses on two parts. It started on design and development of the inverter system. The inverter system consist of a basic DC-DC boost converter topology to boost the DC voltage from the charge controller to a higher voltage level for the DC-AC inverter and the single-phase full bridge inverter to converter the DC voltage to an AC voltage of 230Vac at 50Hz. The second parts followed by studying the photovoltaic (PV) module to find its characteristics and maximum power point under various solar radiations. Simulations were carried out using PSIM software for verification before hardware circuits were developed for actual implementation. Bachelor of Engineering 2009-05-29T04:44:58Z 2009-05-29T04:44:58Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/17058 en Nanyang Technological University 75 p. application/pdf
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title Design and development of solar energy system for use in isolated home in Singapore
title_full Design and development of solar energy system for use in isolated home in Singapore
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title_full_unstemmed Design and development of solar energy system for use in isolated home in Singapore
title_short Design and development of solar energy system for use in isolated home in Singapore
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