A Household PV System for Apartment Residence – Fe

Authors: YongDu Jun John S Jun

Publish Date: 2011/2/25

Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 105-111

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Abstract

As an effort to demonstrate the potential of utilizing solar energy for households especially in apartment complexes a test bed PVphotovoltaic system is proposed and its performance is evaluated Even though the absolute amount of solar energy available for individual apartment house hold is limited the system could run heavyduty appliances such as a refrigerator one of the steady energy consumers in most households System considerations including energy consumption and supply rate as well as the total energy balance are addressed in the present study Total of 5 PV panels one 100W panel and four 60W panels combined with controllers and batteries two 80 AH and three 60 AH batteries respectively generate electricity and store it which eventually is converted into AC power through a 2 kVA inverter

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