Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.7305/automatika.2015.12.716
Efficient Energy Management System for Solar Energy
J. Kamala
; College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, TAMIL NADU - 600025, India
K. Santhosh
; College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, TAMIL NADU - 600025,India
Abstract
Solar power is the major renewable energy source opted by developing countries as stand-alone / Grid enabled system. Industries and educational institutions are opting for solar energy to combat power crisis. This paper proposes knowledge based, self configurable, smart controller to efficiently use solar energy according to load, under frequent grid failure environment. It is enabled with fault identification and isolation. Extension to higher power capacity is easily achieved with plug and play mechanism. Proposed control architecture is implemented using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), that supports modular level implementation with well defined interfaces for each sub-system. It can be used with low power as well as high power photo-voltaic system. Efficiency of the proposed architecture is demonstrated for the photo-voltaic system installed in educational institution.
Keywords
Field Programmable Gate Array; Grid enabled system; Photo-voltaic system; Pulse width modulation; Stand alone system
Hrčak ID:
153969
URI
Publication date:
11.2.2016.
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