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Md. Sifat Morshed, Shoaib Mohammad Ankon, Md. Tanzil Hoque Chowdhury, Md. Anikur Rahman
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
Dhaka, Bangladesh
E-mail address: sifat19eee@gmail.com
Abstract—In today’s world the demand of energy is There are three basic configuration of solar system [4].
incredibly high and non- renewable resource such as ore, fossil Stand alone system, grid tie system and grid interactive
fuel and nuclear fuel are not sufficient to meet this demand. system. At present, PV power is extensively used in stand-
Eventually renewable energy is a better choice. There is an alone power systems in remote villages, particularly in hybrid
increasing trend of using solar cell in the industry as well as to with diesel power generators. It’s major components are PV
household appliance because solar energy is expected to play a module, charge controller, battery and inverter.
prominent role in future smart grid as a distributed renewable
source. For optimal and large scale integration of solar energy Batteries store the energy and provide a constant power
several modeling software and computer program is used. In this source. Charge controller is used to control the flow of current
paper a stand-alone solar system of 2kW with battery backup, into and out of the battery. It prevents the battery from
being located in Dhaka, Bangladesh is designed by using a overcharging and completely discharging. As most of the
MATLAB program named SolarMAT and two popular software appliances are AC-voltage devices, inverter becomes an
PVsyst v5.06 and HOMER. Both PVsyst and HOMER are inevitable component of a stand-alone system. Modern sine
versatile and renowned software in the field of solar system wave inverters exhibit low open-circuit loss, allow partial
design and modeling. PVsyt and HOMER have to be purchased, load operation and should have power surge protection, short
unlike SolarMAT, which is a free tool and it is developed in term overload capacity for several minutes and low level of
MATLAB environment which can also accurately design a solar high-frequency interference in the output signal [5].
system but not that much like the other two. To check the
acceptance of these software, the final result will be compared Grid-tie is gaining popularity in Europe and the United
with the practical data. Another widespread photovoltaic solar States [6]. In a grid-tie system, electrical appliance runs on
system configuration known as grid tie system can also be solar power during the day. Any surplus energy produce is
designed by both of these tools. then fed into the grid. In the evening and at night, when solar
energy system is not producing electricity, then consumer
Keywords—solar cell; solar energy; stand-alone; PVsyst; grid- can buy their power from the electricity companies in the
tie; MATLAB
usual way. The benefit of grid-tie solar installations is that
they reduce reliance on the big electricity companies.
I. INTRODUCTION
In this paper a stand-alone solar system of 2kWp is
Increased energy utilization and global pollution designed by using PVsyst, HOMER and SolarMAT which is a
awareness have made green/renewable energy more and more novel tool developed by the authors. In recent days the
valuable. Among several renewable energy resources, computer modeling and analysis of solar system is extensively
photovoltaic (PV) effect is the most essential and sustainable used because of its accuracy and reliability. As a result there
way because of abundance and easy accessibility of solar are plenty of software exist and developed day by day.
radiant energy around the earth [1]. The conversion of solar
energy into electric energy is performed by means of
photovoltaic cells. One of the attractive features of the PV II. CASE STUDY
system is that its power output matches perfectly with the peak Here a stand-alone system has been studied. A small flat
load demand. It produces more power on a sunny day when situated at Dhaka, Bangladesh having 2kW load is designed
excessive load consumes more power from the grid. by PVsyst v5.06, HOMER and SolarMAT. The required data
to complete the design by SolarMAT is listed in Table I. Not
More than 1,320,965 SHSs having capacity 36.5MW have all data are required for PVsyst and HOMER as listed in the
been installed by different NGOs in Bangladesh up to Table I.
February 2012 which are supported by IDCOL (Infrastructure
development company limited) [2]. It is expected by the
expert’s that Bangladesh will meet 10% of its total electricity
demand by renewable energy in 2020 [3].
Battery in parallel 1
There are also some additional data of the project which
are not required by any of the software or SolarMAT but it PV module size 690Wp
will be essential for later evaluation. They are shown in Table Available energy 1036kWh/year
II.
Unused energy 695kWh/year
Parameter Value
No. of Battery 8
Battery in series 4
Battery in parallel 2
No. of PV module 10
PV module in series 2
PV module in parallel 5
Parameter Value
Battery Ah 200Ah
Parameter Value
Parameter Value
Total AC Wh/day 6000W
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
To complete this work we wish to express sincere gratitude
to our supervisor Prof. Dr. Shahidul Islam Khan, Professor,
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Bangladesh
University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka for his
guidance, inspiration and valuable advice throughout the
work. All the authors have contributed equally in this paper.
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