Industrial/PhD Course: PhotoVoltaic Power Systems (PVPS) - Spring
- Time
- Monday 14. May 2012 at 8:30 - Thursday 17. May 2012 at 16:30
There is a rapid development in Photovoltaics (PV) as a reliable source of renewable energy. The objective of this course is to give an understanding of the operation, design and control of Photovoltaic Power Systems.
The first part (Day 1 and 2) is dealing with solar cells and design of PV plants. The operating principle of the most common PV cells will be presented and their manufacturing processes will be described along with modeling, characterization and fault diagnostic. For PV plants, a design procedure will be presented along with an optimization algorithm aiming to minimized the levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
The second part, (Day 3 and 4) wil focus on PV inverters.The most relevant PV converter topologies and control structures including MPPT methods in PV power generation connected to the grid will be presented.Voltage monitoring to comply with grid connection requirements for PV systems and anti-islanding techniques will be covered. Moreover, the interaction of PV converters with the low voltage distribution network will be studied, including voltage support in case of high penetration.
Control design experience will be gained by using advanced simulation models in Matlab-Simulink for grid converters. Hands-on experience will be provided in the state-of-the-art Green Power Laboratory, where all the participants will make experimental tests on PV array modeling, characterization and diagnostics, MPPT, anti-islanding, grid interaction using setups controlled by dSPACE (DS1103).
Part of the content of the second part of this course is now available in the form of the book Grid Converters for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems, ISBN-10: 0-470-05751-3, Wiley
Prerequisites: Matlab/Simulink knowledge is recommended for the exercises.
Organizer: Professor Remus Teodorescu, ret@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University
Lecturers: Professor Remus Teodorescu, ret@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University, Vitezslav Benda, Associate Professor Dezso Sera, des@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University, Assistant Professor Tamas Kerekes, tak@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University
Further information
Information on registration, the content of the course and the lecturers can be found here:
PhotoVoltaic Power Systems (PVPS) - Spring
- Host
- Department of Energy Technology
- Address
- Pontoppidanstræde 101, 9220 Aalborg East, room 23
- More information
- http://www.et.aau.dk/phd/phd-courses/
- Price
- 9000 DKK for PhD students/Academics outside of Denmark and 2000 DKK for PhD students in Denmark, who is not from AAU. 13.000 DKK for the Industry.
