SOLAR SIMULATOR KIT

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Renewable technologies are playing an increasingly important role in supplying the world’s electricity demands. In particular, the photovoltaic (PV) generation system, a promising source of energy for the future, is evolving rapidly and showing an Industrial growth of approximately 40% per year worldwide. Photovoltaic (PV) generation is gaining increased importance as a renewable source due to its advantages like absence of fuel cost, little maintenance, no noise and wear due to absence of moving parts, etc. Thus Solar simulators has been developed which is used in the production testing of PV modules. Basically A Solar simulator kit is an important tool to measure the performance of solar cell. The purpose of the solar simulator kit is to provide a controllable indoor test facility under laboratory conditions, used for the testing of solar cells. At present Xenon and Halogen lamps are mostly used in the laboratories, but we used different artificial light sources and sunlight in our methodology which is low cost, easy to operate, portable, ecofriendly, long life and has good capability. This methodology presents the design, fabrication and realistic model of solar simulation for practical applications to measure I-V and P-V characteristics of solar cell under different conditions like series and parallel connections, effect of temperature, effect of various filters and at different elevation angles are also studied. Due to the interesting features of solar simulator, It can be used in PV module manufacturing industries for PV testing in future. Research and development efforts in solar and other renewable energy technologies are required to continue for, improving their performance, establishing techniques for accurately predicting their output and reliably integrating them with other conventional generating sources.

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