Course11510700140 lectures
Solar Photovoltaic System Design
Prof. Rhythm Singh · IIT Roorkee
About
This course gives a comprehensive overview of solar photovoltaic power systems, focusing on their design aspects – from resource assessment to power output. The course begins with equipping the learners with practical tools for doing solar radiation resource assessment for analyzing the feasibility of a solar PV project. It then delves on the working and design aspects of solar cells – dealing with their various types of efficiencies, electrical models, parameters and design of high efficiency solar cells. The course then goes on to deal with the design aspects of solar modules – series/ parallel connections, bypass diodes, prevention of hotspots, and the temperature and irradiation dependency of their output. Finally, the course looks into the macro-level design aspects of the solar PV plant: from cabling to power conditioning unit to components’ sizing. The course is highly application-oriented and equips the learners with industry-ready skills for creating a career in the solar PV industry.
Intended audience: B.Tech 3 rd year/ 4 th year students; M.Tech 1 st year students
Prerequisites: Any student from B.Tech/ BE 2nd year or above can take the course as an elective
Lectures
Week 1
- History and current status of solar PV
- Solar radiation fundamentals: Sun and blackbody radiation
- Solar radiation fundamentals: Atmospheric effects
- Solar radiation components
- Measurement of solar irradiation components and solar insolation
Week 2
- TMY data and Transposition Models
- Plane-of-Array solar radiation estimation
- Hands-on exercise: Solar radiation resource assessment
- Solar cell and photodiode basics
- Diode-photodiode comparison and equivalent circuit
Week 3
- Photodiode equivalent circuit: Hands-on solution
- Detailed working of solar cell
- Recombination phenomena in solar cell
- Absorption of light in solar cell: Hands-on analysis
- Absorption efficiency and Quantum efficiency: Hands-on estimation
Week 4
- Design of Anti Reflection Coating
- Solar Cell I-V Curve and Characteristics
- Temperature dependency of solar cells
- Electrical description of real solar cells
- Standard model of real solar cells: Hands-on solution
Week 5
- Spectral efficiency of solar cell
- Theoretical efficiency of solar cell
- Design optimization of solar cells
- Design optimization of solar cells - II
- Design of solar modules
Week 6
- Properties of solar modules: Hands-on analysis
- Bypass diodes in solar modules: Hands-on analysis
- Hotspots in solar modules: Hands-on analysis
- Degradation phenomena in solar modules
- Age related degradation and module operation: Hands-on analysis
Week 7
- Thin film solar modules
- Design of strings of solar PV modules: Hands-on analysis
- Solar PV plant structure: Hands-on example
- Direct current cabling of solar PV plant: Hands-on design
- DC-DC converters for solar PV plants
Week 8
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Roorkee
- Department
- Physics
- Teacher
- Prof. Rhythm Singh
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Physics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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