A study on standalone photovoltaic system with real meteorological data at Malaysia

Author

Weixiang, Shen ; Bin, Alex See Kok ; Seng, Ong Kok

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Monash Univ., Selangor Darul Ehsan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

29-29 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

937

Abstract

This paper presents a simple method to determine the optimum sizes of solar array and battery bank for standalone photovoltaic (SPV) systems under the given load by using energy balance concept. The energy efficiency models of system components and the long-term solar radiation data obtained from Malaysian Meteorological Services Department are adopted. In the process of sizing system components, the loss of power supply probability (LPSP) is used to express system reliability. Then, the LPSPs of the systems at different sizes of solar array and battery bank are calculated. Based on the minimum cost of the systems, the optimum combination of solar array and battery bank is determined. With these optimum sizes, the operating performance of the designed SPV systems is given

Keywords

photovoltaic power systems; reliability; solar cell arrays; solar radiation; statistical distributions; Malaysian meteorological services department; battery bank; energy efficiency; loss of power supply probability; meteorological data; solar array; solar radiation data; standalone photovoltaic system; system reliability; Batteries; Cost function; Energy efficiency; Meteorology; Photovoltaic systems; Power supplies; Power system modeling; Reliability; Solar power generation; Solar radiation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines and Systems, 2005. ICEMS 2005. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

7-5062-7407-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMS.2005.202682

Filename

1574915