Solar and Wind Energy Hybrid Power System for Rural Area Electrification

World now a day is witnessing different hybrid systems for energy production. The main reasons behind this are that hybrid systems are more efficient and mostly low cost systems. Moreover, most of the hybrid systems we come across now a days are ecofriendly. Keeping this in mind a hybrid system for

Project Title

Solar and Wind Energy Hybrid Power System for Rural Area Electrification

Project Area of Specialization

Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Project Summary

World now a day is witnessing different hybrid systems for energy production. The main reasons behind this are that hybrid systems are more efficient and mostly low cost systems. Moreover, most of the hybrid systems we come across now a days are ecofriendly. Keeping this in mind a hybrid system for electrification can also be designed. In this project a solar and wind hybrid system for the production of electricity have been designed. Solar and wind both are renewable energy resources and can be used for designing a low cost and ecofriendly electricity generating system. But solar or wind alone don’t come out to be very efficient energy resources. So a system has been designed which produces electricity using both resources simultaneously. This system can be used for the electrification of rural and remote areas where electricity wires are hard to install as well as for the designing of a powerful battery charging system. This project
presents modelling, simulation, and performance study of hybrid generation system with MPPT controller. The Wind power generation system uses Wind Turbine. The PV cell model is developed including the effects of changing solar irradiation and temperature and Maximum power from PV cell is obtained by using MPPT controller.

Project Objectives

Our major objectives are as follow:

• To construct a system for the production of electricity from solar energy by designing MPPT converter. For this purpose we will be using a 24 V 300 watts solar panel and will be dessigning a DC to DC sepic converter.
• To design a system to produce electricity form wind energy using wind turbine and suitable DC to DC converter. For this purpose we'll be using 24 V 1200 watts wind turbine and will design a DC to DC sepic Converter
• To integrate energy, produced from PV cells and wind mill turbines together using a solar, wind hybrid system. For this purpose we'll be using a charge controller
• To design a Battery Management System (BMS). For this purpose we'll be

Project Implementation Method

The solar and wind hybrid system consists of two parts i i.e. PV Panels (Solar Panel) and DC wind Turbine. The voltage levels achieved from both sources should be same to charge and maintain the health of Batteries.

The designing of the Hardware will be done by using the following procedure:

• When the voltages are produced by the panels, there are variations in the voltage levels because of many factors related to the nature.
• DC-DC converter along with the MPPT  (Maximum Power Pointi Tracking) algorithm, collectively called MPPT charge controller, will be used to extract the maximum
  efficiency from the Panels.
• The MPPT charge controller controls the P-V characteristics of the PV Panel. The
  controller will keep checking for the maximum power point on the P-V graph.
• Maximum power point tracking on I-V graph will deliver the peak efficiency of panels.
• In case of the the Wind turbine, the DC to DC converter will be used to maintain the voltages at the output. Because the speed of the wind is not the consistent it may vary from time to time.
• Then these systems will  be connected to the controller which will sense that which power source is available and which is absent. If both the sources get available, then the controller
  will control the voltages of both the system such a way that both sources can be used at the same time.
• DC voltages from these sources could either be used directly in the house, schools or in
  offices or can be passed through an inverter to get a 220V AC voltage.

Benefits of the Project

According to the report of United Nations 1.3 billion people in the world are living without electricity; two-thirds of them being in 10 countries and four of them, including Pakistan, in the Asia Pacific region. Hydel and thermal power plants are the main source of electricity in Pakistan but hydal power plants are very expansive to install and thermal power plants produce very expansive energy as well as it produces a lot of pollutants which are poisoning our environment. To overcome these problems renewable energy resources are used. Wind and solar energy are two of the most abundantly used renewable energy resources for electrification in the world but still when dealt separately they are not much efficient. Energy cannot be produced in a notably larger amount using mere solar energy, same goes for wind energy. So a solution is needed to overcome these issues. 

• After the completion of this project we will be able to produce electricity with zero production cost.
• It is an environmental friendly way  of production of elctricity as there is no harmful waste disposed to the environment.
• This way of production of electricity uses renewable energy rsources which are ever lasting and can not come to extinction. by this way we willbe minimizing the usage of fossil fuels for the production of energy which are not unlimited in supply.
• Last but not the least our way of production of energy requires just insallment cost and be installed any where all across pakistan where there is sun and wind. by this way we will be minimizing the expenses of wire and trasnformer installation to far off and backwards areas of pakistan like Layyah or sibbi where  electricity installation is a difiicult task. 

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

At the end of this project we will be delivering a system which will be using Solar energy and wind enrgy to produce zero cost electricity using photo voltaic cell and a wind turbine. the elctricty produced from both sources will be passed through a DC- DC converter and afterwards it will be stored in the dry cell battery. the system will supply DC as well as AC current.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

Energy

Other Industries

Others

Core Technology

Clean Tech

Other Technologies

Others

Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and Clean Energy, Responsible Consumption and Production

Required Resources

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