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Performance Analysis of Photovoltaic System for Greenhouse  

Kwon, Sun-Ju (Graduate school, Gyeongsang National Univ.)
Min, Young-Bong (Dept. of Bio-Industrial Machinery Eng., Gyeongsang National Univ.(Insti. of Agric. & Life Sci.))
Choi, Jin-Sik (S.H.E.C. Co., Ltd)
Yoon, Yong-Cheol (Dept. of Agricultural Eng., Gyeongsang National Univ.(Insti. of Agric. & Life Sci.))
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Journal of agriculture & life science / v.46, no.5, 2012 , pp. 143-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was performed to reduce the operating cost of a greenhouse by securing electric energy required for greenhouse operation. Therefore, it experimentally reviewed the performance analysis of photovoltaic system in terms of maximum amount of generated electric power based on the amount of horizontal solar radiation during daytime. That is to say, the maximum solar radiation at 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 and 900 W. $m^{-2}$, respectively. The amount of momentary electric power of the photovoltaic system at any was about 970 W and we found that the momentary efficiency of the photovoltaic system that was used for this experiment was 97%. In the case of this system, we found that electric power will be generated when amount of horizontal solar radiation is more than 200 W. $m^{-2}$, at minimum. If the amount of horizontal solar radiation is increased, the maximum power generation is also increased. At that time, the maximum efficiencies were 30, 78, 86 and 90%, respectively. However, when the amount of insolation was about 800 W. $m^{-2}$, the maximum power generation tended to be lower than 700 W. $m^{-2}$. The efficiency which caused the maximum electric power was decreased to less than 97% of the momentary generated electric power. When the total amounts of horizontal solar radiation per day were 3.24, 8.10, 10, 90, 12.70, 14.33, 19.53 and $21.48MJ{\cdot}m^{-2}$ respectively, the total amounts of power energy were 0.03, 0.40, 3.60, 4.37, 4.71, 4.70 and 4.91 kWh. And it represented that the total amounts of power energy were either decreased or increased a bit on the border between some solar radiations. The temperature at the back of the array tended to be higher than the temperature at the front but it demonstrated an increased when the amount of solar radiation increased. In the case of this system, the performance of the module in terms of degradation has not been shown yet.
Keywords
Electric power and energy; Amount of horizontal solar radiation; Greenhouse; Array temperature; Effective;
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