Low-cost and high sensitive microcontroller based data acquisition system for renewable energy sources

Author

Demirtas, Mehmet ; Sefa, Ibrahim ; Irmak, Erdal ; Colak, Ilhami

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Educ., Gazi Univ. Affiliation, Ankara

fYear

2008

fDate

11-13 June 2008

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

199

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a data acquisition card for the hybrid energy system. Parameters of the solar and the wind sources such as the current, the voltage, the direction of wind, the operation conditions and the position of the solar system can be changed and illustrated on an LCD and displayed on a PC using the card developed. The hybrid system including a PIC 18F452 and a 18F2550 microcontroller has been tested on a 2.5 kW solar panel and a 2.5 kW wind turbine. It has been observed that this hybrid system works successfully and gives good performance such as low cost and easy programming.

Keywords

data acquisition; hybrid power systems; liquid crystal displays; microcontrollers; solar power; wind turbines; LCD displays; data acquisition card; microcontroller; renewable energy sources; solar panel; wind turbines; Control systems; Costs; Data acquisition; Meteorology; Microcontrollers; Monitoring; Renewable energy resources; Temperature sensors; Voltage; Wind energy; Data acquisition; energy management; microcontroller; renewable energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 2008. SPEEDAM 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ischia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1663-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1664-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPEEDHAM.2008.4581303

Filename

4581303