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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Photo voltaic"”.
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A machine learning approach to evaluating renewable energy technology : an alternative LACE study on solar photo-voltaic (PV)
Currently, renewable technologies are often evaluated using the Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), which is a measure of building and operating a generating plant over an assumed αnancial life and duty cycle. Naturally, instead of only measuring the cost, a more holistic approach would be to …
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Modelling a hybrid system pv/wind grid connected with static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)
Whenever s photo voltaic and wind power production are used together, the reliability xof the power grid is enhanced. But this combined hybrid system needs controlling and Compensation, to overcome this problem, we use Static x Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) to stabilize the power supply at the …
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Design and implementation of a continuous improvement framework, focusing on material and information flow, for the manufacturing of organic photovoltaics
Konarka Technologies is an organic photo voltaic solar panel manufacturing startup and is currently in the process of ramping up their production volumes. The MIT team has worked on numerous improvement activities that helped improve different aspects of the manufacturing plant. This thesis …
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Computational design and optimization of infrastructure policy in water and agriculture
… withdrawals and lastly we evaluate the use of Photo Voltaic powered Electro Dialysis Reversal (PV-EDR) as a potential technology to desalinate brackish groundwater through a multidisciplinary system design and optimization approach.
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Use of PV/T panels to meet the building loads of light commercialized buildings
This thesis deals with the analysis of a Photo Voltaic Thermal (PV/T) panel that is capable of producing simultaneously electric power and low-grade heat energy by absorbing the solar energy striking on its surface. A simple mathematical model is developed to estimate the electric power and heat …
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Studying the Impact of Solar Photovoltaic on Transient Stability of Power Systems using Direct Methods
… based renewable generation in the form of solar photo-voltaic (PV) or wind has introduced numerous operational challenges and uncertainties. Among these challenges, one of the major ones is the impact on the transient stability of the grid. On the other hand, the direct methods for transient …
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PROMOTING DISTRIBUTED ENERGY DEPLOYMENT AND DIFFUSION FOR SUSTAINABLE CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE USING MULTI-AGENT BASED MODELING AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYTICS
… Solar Generation (DSG) using small-scale Photo-Voltaic (PV) is an evolving technology with increasingly growing market penetration due to its significant benefits to consumers and broader power systems. DSG is sustainable, provides reliability, and is cost-effective where solar energy is …
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Metal oxide/organic interface investigations for photovoltaic devices
… of metal oxide / organic interfaces in photo- voltaic devices. It focuses on device instabilities originating from the metal oxide layer surface sensitivity and it presents suggested mechanisms behind these in- stabilities. A simple sol-gel solution deposition technique for the …
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CMOS THz-ID: A 1.6mm² Package-Less Identification Tag Using 260-GHz Far-Field Backscatter Communication
… 21 𝜇W and can be powered by a chip-wide array of photodiodes. Using a low-cost 65-nm bulk CMOS technology, the THz-ID chip has an area of only 1.6 mm^2 and demonstrates measured downlink speed of 100 kbps and upload speed of 2 kbps across 5 cm distance from the reader. The tag-reader …
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Knowledge modelling of emerging technologies for sustainable building development
… and PV -system domains. A prototype system - Photo Voltaic Technology ONtology System (PV -TONS) - that employed sustainable building technology and PV -system domain knowledge models was developed and validated with a case study. While the sustainable building technology ontology and PV -TONS …
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Thermal Performance of AlGaN/GaN Based Power Switching Devices for Transformerless Inverters
… inverter is the most important component in a Photo Voltaic (PV) system that needs to be improved. Transformerless inverters have higher efficiencies at lower weight and size specifications as compared to ones with transformers. A modified topology of a single phase transformerless inverter …
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Analysis and Planning of Power Transmission System Subject to Uncertainties in the Grid
… pronounced with the penetration of utility-scale Photo-Voltaic (PV) sources. Synchronous generators provide inertia that helps in damping oscillations that arise due to fluctuations in the power system. Therefore, as PV generators replace the conventional synchronous generators, power transmission …
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Modeling and multi-objective optimization of a photovoltaic-thermal based multigeneration system
… and optimized. It consists of GaAs based PV (Photo-Voltaic) arrays connected in series. Light is being concentrated on those arrays using lenses or mirrors. Concentrated light increases the cell temperature significantly. The cell is cooled down using a heat transfer fluid. This heat is being …
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Dynamic Analysis and Control of Multi-machine Power System with Microgrids: A Koopman Mode Analysis Approach
… and non-renewable generating units such as solar photo-voltaic panels and micro-turbines, storage devices such as batteries and fly wheels, and loads. Typically, it is connected to the distribution feeders via power electronic converters with fast control responses within the micro-seconds. These …
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Dynamical modelling of power systems with power electronic controllers using individual channel analysis and design
… made in the integration of wind generation and photo-voltaics. Moreover, the industry has gone through major privatisation and deregulation programmes worldwide; and there is the notion in some quarters that deregulation and widespread cross-border interconnections may have exacerbated the …
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The Role of Photovoltaic Generation and Electric Mobility in Future Distribution Systems
… this variability. At the distribution level, photo-voltaic (PV) systems are, by far, the most widespread distributed energy resource, mostly due to the recent drop in the cost at the residential level. As more and more consumers become also producers (the so called "prosumers") and the …
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Electrical performance and economic feasibility analyses of hybrid and battery storage devices used in remote area islanded renewable energy systems
… power supply, viz. ideal voltage source, Solar Photo Voltaic (PV) and Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS), with each case being connected to a BSS and HBS. A load profile and solar and wind resource investigation was conducted using the NASA, Wind Atlas of South Africa (WASA) and Solar GIS …