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Design, Fabrication and temperature measuring experiments of solar collecting system using a single module reflectors (단일 모듈 반사경을 이용한 태양열 집열 시스템의 설계, 제작 및 온도측정 시험연구)

  • Yang, Byeong-Soo;Yang, Woo;Seo, Tae-Il;Son, Chang-Woo
    • Design & Manufacturing
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2019
  • Currently, the world is paying keen attention to the production of renewable energy along with environmental issues, and the share of renewable energy in the world is rising above that of nuclear power. Especially when Korea, which is heavily dependent on foreign countries, needs to reconsider its national competitiveness due to the recent high oil prices, the government's energy policy is to develop and use renewable energy that replaces fossil fuels. In particular, solar energy, the most actively studied and commercialized field of renewable energy, is the main research for solar energy and is commercialized and used. However, the efficiency of solar energy has already reached saturation. Studies are also focusing on increasing the reflectivity of solar energy to increase efficiency. Therefore, this paper proposes a solar collection system that can utilize solar energy rather than solar energy. The proposed solar heat collection system uses solar tracking systems to effectively collect solar energy, particularly those that can be easily produced using single-modular reflectors and have price competitiveness. In addition, temperature measurement experiments with temperature measuring sensors were conducted to ensure reliability in order to verify the results interpreted.

A Study on High Efficiency DC-AC Inverter of Solar Cell Power System Used in Fire Emergency Equipment (소방 비상용 태양전지 발전시스템의 고효율 직류-교류 인버터 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Kwak, Dong-Kurl;Lee, Bong-Seob
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.15 no.3 s.47
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    • pp.181-187
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    • 2006
  • This paper is proposed to a solar cell power system used in fire emergency equipment. Also it is designed with a high efficiency power converter in order to increase efficiency of power system. The controlling switches used in DC-DC booster chopper and DC-AC inverter are operated with soft switching, which is applied to resonant circuit method to reduce switching loss. The result is that the system gets to high efficiency. In this paper, A detection circuit of maximum power point of solar cell is described in this paper. And the performance evaluations for the photovoltaic power system of high efficiency are examined by the analysis of a new tracking controller with a maximum power $P_{max}$ detection of solar cell.

A study on the utilization status and technical development of solar tracking daylighting systems (추적식 자연채광시스템 현황 및 기술 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Won Sik;Jeong, Hae Jun;Chun, Wongee;Han, Hyun Joo;Lim, Sang Hoon
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.62-73
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    • 2016
  • Daylighting systems offer substantial advantages over conventional ones in illuminating the building interior. Especially, considering that lighting accounts for about 28% of total energy consumption in buildings, the use of daylighting systems deem very important in lessening the dependency on artificial lighting. This work has carried out a survey and analysis to explore the characteristics and current status of various daylighting systems with solar tracking features recently introduced in Korea.

Residential Solar Cell System by driving of High Efficiency Inverter

  • Kwak Dong-Kurl;Lee Hyun-Woo
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.687-691
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    • 2001
  • With today's global environmental and energy problems, high expectations exist for solar power generation to reduce carbon dioxide generated by the consumption of fossil fuels. On the other hand, power consumption in residential homes is increasing every year. Among the many household appliances, the power demand for air conditioners increases dramatically during the summer, particularly in the afternoons. As this pattern closely matches the output pattern of solar cells, it should be possible to combine a photovoltaic array with an air conditioner to decrease the energy consumption within the home. We have developed a residential solar-powered air conditioner that operates through a combination of photovoltaic array and commercial power. In this paper, the configuration and specification of the residential solar-powered system are described to a novel high efficiency inverter using a ZVCS boost converter. And the performance evaluations of the solar-powered air conditioner are examined by the analysis of a new tracking controller with a maximum power $P_{max}$ detection of solar cell.

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Study on the Grid-connected Photovoltaic Power System for Reducing Ripples of the PV Array Output (PV Array 출력리플 저감을 위한 계통연계형 태양광 인버터에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, H.J.;Chung, Y.H.;Lee, K.S.;Jon, Y.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.1211-1212
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    • 2007
  • In the PV power system, output of the PV array must contain inherent ripples due to the single-phase inverter. So, the function of maximum power point tracking to increase the output efficiency of PV system is degraded. Therefore, to overcome this problem, this paper presents a control strategy for the reducing ripples of the PV array output in grid-connected photovoltaic power system. The proposed control system consists of two loops; the maximum power point tracking loop using the perturbation and observation method is used to calculate the reference solar array terminal voltage(Vref) for reducing ripples of the PV array output and the PI control loop is used to regulate the solar array output voltage according to the Vref. The performance of proposing control strategy is analyzed by means of the PSCAD/EMTDC simulation and experiment. As a result, we may obtain the high performance of the proposed control strategy.

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A Study on the Design of Wired and Wireless Communication System for Solar Panel Optimizer (태양광 패널 최적기의 유선 및 무선 통신 시스템 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Yang, Oh
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we have designed a solar photovoltaic system to attach solar photovoltaic modules to each module and develop the best efficiency in each module. The efficiency of the designed solar panel optimizer was more than 99.27% and MPPT efficiency of 99.66%. In addition, the monitoring of power generation and abnormal operation phenomenon in each optimum period and tracking for failure location of specific photovoltaic module have improved the utilization rate of photovoltaic power generation. Wired and wireless communication methods has been proposed to monitor the power generation and operation status of the solar panel optimizer. For this purpose, the RS485 communication was used for wire communication and Zigbee communication was used for wireless communication to monitor the status of each module in real time. It is shown that communication redundancy can be achieved through the proposed method, and the possibility of commercialization is suggested.

Design and Manufacture of Linear Fresnel Reflector Solar Thermal System (선형 프레넬 반사판 태양열 발전시스템의 설계 및 제작)

  • Kim, Haneol;Kim, Jongkyu
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.1-4
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    • 2018
  • In this study, design and manufacture of LFR (Linerar Fresnel Reflector) system was performed for solar thermal absorption cooling. The LFR system was designed considering the expansion and convenience to be installed according to the cooling capacity of the applicable building. Twelve LFR modules with a total reflection area of $204m^2$ were installed. The automatic tracking system was applied to track the sun during the daytime.

Control of a Novel PV Tracking System Considering the Shadow Influence

  • Ko, Jae-Sub;Chung, Dong-Hwa
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.524-529
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    • 2012
  • This paper proposes a novel control strategy of a PV tracking system considering the shadow influence. If distance of between PV arrays is not enough, shadow can be occurred to PV module. In PV system, if shadow is occurred to PV modules then PV modules operates reverses bias, and will eventually cause hot-spot and loss. To reduce loss by shadow influence, this paper proposes shadow compensation algorithm using distance between arrays and shadow length of array. The distance between arrays is calculated by using azimuth of solar, and length of array shadow is calculated using by altitude of solar. The shadow compensation algorithm proposed in this paper compares distance between arrays and length of array shadow. When the shadow length is longer than the distance between arrays, the algorithm adjusts altitude of array to avoid the shadow effects. The control algorithm proposed in this paper proves validity through compared with conventional algorithm and proposes experiment result.

Study and Control of Photovoltaic Water Pumping System

  • Khlifi, Mohamed Arbi
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 2016
  • Solar photovoltaic pumping system is one of most important of renewable energy applications especially in rural areas. Besides, the control strategy for standalone solar pumping system based on induction motor and without DC/DC converter has been widely studied and discussed in the literature. This topology is of great concern due its economic issues, especially when a standard frequency converter (SFCs) with scalar control is used instead of a dedicated PV inverter. This paper proposes an external control module to generate SFCs frequency reference in order to ensure both maximum power point tracking (MPPT). We present method of modeling and control of photovoltaic pumping system based centrifugal pump controlled by new improved incremental conductance in order to optimize the price and operation of pumping system this MPPT algorithm have many advantages like can be eliminate proportional integral controller It is a low cost solution since it requires no additional power equipment. The induction motor driven pump that is powered by a solar array is controlled by the indirect field oriented control (IFOC). The effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated by simulations carried out under Matlab Software. The experimental results are compared with simulation results.

The New Modeling of Solar Cell for Virtual Implement Of Solar Cell (태양전지 가상구현 장치를 위한 새로운 태양전지 모델링에 관한 연구)

  • Lee B. I.;Ryu T. G.;Han J. M.;Choe G. H.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 2002
  • A study on photovoltaic system has a lot of problems. Such as repetition experiment in the same condition, development of MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) algorithm, development of islanding detection algorithm and so forth. The reason Is that solar cell output characteristics are varied by insolarion and surface temperature of solar cell. Therefore, the assistance equipment is required which emulates the solar cell characteristics. In this paper, propose the new modeling of solar cell and verify this modeling using MATLAB simulation. And experiment virtual implement of solar cell system using this modeling.

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