International Journal of Applied Engineering Research
  • Year: 2008
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 6

Estimation of solar irradiance for PV-ECS based distributed power generation

  • Author:
  • M. Rizwan1,, Majid Jamil2
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 837 to 846

1Department of Electrical Engineering, G. L. Bajaj Institute of Tech. & Mgt., Gr. Noida (U.P) 201 306.

2Department of Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110 025, India.

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Abstract

The effect of two important atmospheric factors, variation of turbidity and NO2 absorbance is proposed in estimating the solar irradiance. REST (Reference evaluation of solar transmittance), a broadband model for the solar irradiance is used to estimate the solar irradiance. After estimating the solar irradiance for the distributed power generating system, the PV solar output power is calculated. Instead of conventional batteries, use of a new storage device called energy capacitor system (ECS) is proposed because of its various advantages.

Keywords

Solar irradiance, Photovoltaic, Distributed power generation, Energy capacitor system (ECS)