Designing, Simulating and Technical Analysis of a 2 MW On-grid Photovoltaic System for Agricultural Applications

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1 Bursa Uludağ University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Biosystems Engineering, TR 16059 Bursa, Turkey

2 Department of Biotechnology, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to analyze technical analysis of agrivoltaic system in Kerman using PVsyst. A 2 MW photovoltaic system was developed for the grid-connected system. Meteonorm 7 software was used to get the meteorological data for the city of Kerman. PV loss resulting from variations of irradiance intensity and temperature and the inverter losses due to the operation were determined. The energy that can be generated throughout the year was calculated for each month considering the PV-array collection loss and system loss, i.e., inverter loss. The corresponding performance ratio was also determined for the energy output per month. Incident irradiation distribution, system output power distribution, array voltage distribution, and array temperature distribution were reported. Finally, parameter optimization tool was used to study the effect of tilt and azimuth. The tilt angle and the azimuth angle were 30o and 0o, respectively. The amount of annual energy injected into the grid was found to be 3766.321 MWh. The maximum energy injected into the grid was in August with 359.713 MWh, and the lowest energy was is in February with 264.412 MWh. As a result, an average annual performance ratio of 80.80% was achieved.

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Biomechanism and Bioenergy Research
Volume 1, Issue 2
December 2022
Pages 1-6

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  • Receive Date: 11 December 2022
  • Revise Date: 28 December 2022
  • Accept Date: 30 December 2022

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