Photovoltaic integration in a grid power system

Other Title(s)

النظام الكهروضوئي المدمج بالشبكة الكهربائية

Dissertant

Mutan, Nur al-Din

Thesis advisor

Abu Khaizaran, Muhammad

Comitee Members

al-Sayyid, Basim
Said, Jasir

University

Birzeit University

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

University Country

Palestine (West Bank)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2017

English Abstract

Grid-connected Photovoltaic (PV) systems have increased dramatically in the last few years due to the increased global interest in renewable energy sources and the growth in energy demand.

As a consequence, new and modern control strategies should be applied to improve the efficiency, reliability, and stability of grid-connected PV systems.

To achieve that, the whole PV system should be tested under various weather and grid conditions.

However, the wide variety of the PV system devices and control algorithms, in addition to the destructive nature of many types of scenarios and faults, make the practical testing of the PV system very difficult, very expensive, and impossible in many cases.

Therefore, this thesis made use of the modelling and simulation tools of MATLAB/SIMULINK to develop a model for a grid-connected PV system.

The developed model implements all components of the grid-connected PV system; these components are a PV array, boost converter, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) controller, three-phase Voltage Source Inverter (VSI), grid filter, grid synchronization method and VSI controller.

Each component of the system was modelled, tested and validated.

Then the whole PV system was used to simulate many scenarios under various grid and weather conditions.

The simulation results show that the model is reliable, stable and suitable for studying the gridconnected PV system.

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

No. of Pages

69

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-779850