Photo-Voltaic Power System Design

1. Characteristic of Solar Radiation:

• The ultraviolet UV catastrophe (Blackbody radiation).
• Maximum wave length λmax with temperature of Blackbody.
• Solar spectrum (UV, visible and IR).
• Exercise 1: Calculation Body temperature by λmax.

2. Solar Irradiation:

• solar cell spectrum response: the available energy, Excitons and silicon:
• Solar Angels: Air mass(AM0, AM1, AM1.5……), Zenith, Azimuth, Altitude.
• Solar Constant
• Solar data by location: Sun Calculation Program:

3. Solar Irradiation

• Solar data by location: Sun Calculation Program
• Tilt Plane Calculations.
• Horizon and Sun path.
• Peak Sun Hours PSH.

4. Solar Irradiation:

• Introduction to Global Solar Program: Determine the location, GHI,GTI, Sun Path.
• Solar Irradiance Table of location.
• Exercise 2: Excel report of Location.

5. solar irradiation and PV Module:

• Exercise 3: calculation Tilt of panel by Solar Calculation Program.
• Structure of Solar Cell: PV cells Doping, pv cell operation, Solar Cell Surface.
• Solar Cell Equivalent Circuit, current formula, Rs, Rsh.
• Structure of PV Module:

6. PV Module:

• Electrical Specifications of PV Module: Pmp, Vmp, Voc, Imp, Isc, Eff, FF, Curves of PV module.
• STC(Standard Test Condition), NOCT(Normal Operating Cell Temperature).
• Thermal Specifications of PV Module.
• Calculations of temperature effects of solar cell performance.

7. PV Panels:

• Calculations temperature effects of solar cell performance.
• Connection PV modules in: Series:, Parallel, Hybrid, and
  Calculations.
• PV string calculation: Minimum String Size, Maximum
  String Size.

8. PV String Calculation:

• PV string calculation: Minimum String Size, Min String Size.

9. PV Strings & Arrays Calculation:

• Shadow Effects on PV Modules.
• PV Module Technology.
• Exercise 4: Calculation Tcell.
• Exercise 5: connecting solar panels in series, parallel, and
  hybrid.

10. PV String Calculation:

• Exercise 6: Calculation Max string Size.
• Exercise 7: Calculation Min string Size.
• Exercise 8: Calculation P with temperature.

11. Power Quality:

• Characteristic of Sine Wave and crest factor.
• Harmonic Analyzes.
• Current and Voltage Harmonics: THD (Total Harmonic
  Distortion).
• Passive Electronic Components: Frequency resonance
  calculations.
• Harmonic Order and Sequence.
• Power factor: cos f, PF.

12. Types of Passive Filters:

• Low, Band and high pass Filters.
• Exercise 9: THD Current.
• Exercise 10:Power factor calculation with THD.
• Exercise11:Low pass filter calculation.

13. Introduction to an inverter concept

• PWM Concept and its applications.
• PWM & MPPT, and the differences.
• Boost Converter and calculations.
• Inverter Operation Concept and Eff
• Programing of inverters

14. Batteries:

• Battery Basics.
• Characteristic of Batteries.
• Types of Batteries.
• Connecting batteries in parallel and series.
• Calculation loads in Wh and Ah.
• Exercise 9: Calculation desired batterie’s capacity for
  loads.

15. Excel Report:

• Excel report of solar system performance and pay pack – period (1).
• Excel report of solar system performance and pay pack – period (2).
• Off-grid system design.
• Solar pumping system: calculation pump capacity, Solar
  calculations, production of water, solar pumping system
  design.
• On-grid systems design.
• Exercise10:Calculation PV Panels and Batteries for a
  house loads.

16. PV Projects:

• Solar off grid study.
• Solar grid tie study (1).
• Solar grid tie study (2).
• Solar pumping study.