Hardware setup of a solar microgrid laboratory

Coleman, Nicholas; Hill, Jesse; Berardino, Jonathan; Ogawa, Kara Lynne; Mallgrave, Ryan; Sandoval, Ruben M.; Qian, Yichen; Zhu, Lixin; Miu, Karen; Nwankpa, C.O.

doi:10.1109/pesgm.2017.8274100

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“…With a 9% measurement inaccuracy, a 90% reduction in equipment investment cost was achieved. Coleman et al [10] discussed the hardware development of a solar laboratory environment that consists of photovoltaic arrays, battery storage, and different converters. This lab is designed to serve students and researchers with experimental learning on solar microgrids.…”

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Design and Development of a Conceptual Solar Energy Laboratory for District Heating Applications

Chung,

Sukumaran,

Hlebnikov

et al. 2023

Solar

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The decarbonization of the district heating (DH) sector is receiving attention worldwide. Solar energy and heat pump technologies are widely considered in existing and new DH networks. There is a need to understand the influence of solar energy on district heating experimentally. However, only a few university laboratories are focused on district heating aspects. Further, the concept of such laboratories is not adequately disseminated in the scientific literature. The main objective of this paper is to develop a conceptual design of a solar energy laboratory with a focus on district heating systems. The proposed concept forms part of the preliminary study carried out by a research group at the Tallinn University of Technology. First, a brief literature review on solar energy laboratory development is provided. Then, the conceptual design of such a laboratory is presented, along with a case study. Regardless of project size, the main components of a district heating-based solar energy laboratory are solar collectors, thermal energy storage (TES) tanks, and a control system. The proposed laboratory is expected to serve multiple roles, such as a practical laboratory to provide interdisciplinary courses for students, a research and experimental platform for researchers, and a cradle to achieve the campus green initiative. It is roughly estimated that the thermal energy output from the proposed laboratory would meet around 25% of the heat demand of the institutional building during the summer season (May, June, July, and August). It is expected that the present study will be a reference material for the development of innovative energy laboratories in educational institutions.

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Section: Energy Laboratory Development In Universitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and Development of a Conceptual Solar Energy Laboratory for District Heating Applications

Chung,

Sukumaran,

Hlebnikov

et al. 2023

Solar

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“…Some of the can be found in the literature. Thus, in (Coleman et al, 2017) a testbed is developed at the University of Drexel (US) for teaching purposes, involving undergraduate and graduate level students. This testbed is composed of a 1.6 kW PV system, including storage and power converters, and allows students to develop skills as conversion/loss calculations, the study of the effects of varying weather conditions and the management of batteries SOC constraints.…”

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Photovoltaic Microgrid Emulator for Educational Purposes

García¹,

Torres-Moreno²,

Limonchi³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the ISES Solar World Congress 2019

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Nowadays, the world is involved in a process of change of the paradigm for the exploitation of the primary sources of energy aiming to reach a cleaner and more sustainable scenario for the fulfillment of the power demands of the society. Together to the incorporation to the mains of huge quantities of renewable electricity from wind and solar parks, many industries and dwellings are also currently using private small scale renewable installations for self-consumption and/or local grids balancing. This is due both to the competitive costs of the systems and to environmental consciousness of their users. Photovoltaic systems, including batteries, play a key role in this kind of installations, which, in general terms, must be also considered as part of the emerging smart distributed energy schemes. Engineers and technicians must them be trained in these new specific subjects which require a wider approach to the projects that must be tackled taking into account, instead than before, a multiplicity of possible operation modes for the own and neighbor installations according smart management schemes: fully autonomous, PVgrid tied, hybrid (PVgrid tied+battery)… This work describes an educational resource developed for the UAL engineering studies aiming to ease, throughout a direct and instrumental approach, the learning of the dynamic processes underlying these systems and their operations modes as well as the learning on the different installations elements specifications (PV modules, batteries, charge regulators, grid inverters,...) that constitute them.

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Research on Islanding Detection Method in Microgrid

Wang

Shen

2020

2020 3rd International Conference on Advanced Electronic Materials, Computers and Software Engineering (AEMCSE)

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Hardware setup of a solar microgrid laboratory

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Design and Development of a Conceptual Solar Energy Laboratory for District Heating Applications

Design and Development of a Conceptual Solar Energy Laboratory for District Heating Applications

Photovoltaic Microgrid Emulator for Educational Purposes

Research on Islanding Detection Method in Microgrid

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