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Stand Alone System: Simulation parameters

Project :

Stand Alone Project at Mumbai

Geographical Site

Mumbai

Situation
Time defined as

Latitude

Meteo data:

Legal Time
Albedo
Mumbai

Country
19.1N

India

Longitude

72.9E

Time zone UT+5.5

Altitude
0.20
Synthetic - Meteonorm 6.1

18 m

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Simulation variant :

New simulation variant

Simulation date

24/02/16 15h26

Simulation parameters

Tilt

Collector Plane Orientation

Models used

Transposition

30

Azimuth

Perez

Diffuse

Erbs, Meteonorm

PV Array Characteristics
PV module

Si-mono

Number of PV modules
Total number of PV modules
Array global power

Model

ZKX-260D-36
Manufacturer CETC Solar
In series 1 modules
Nb. modules 4

Nominal (STC)

Array operating characteristics (50C)

U mpp

Total area

Module area

1040 Wp
43 V

In parallel
Unit Nom. Power

At operating cond.

I mpp

4 strings
260 Wp

918 Wp (50C)

21 A

6.7 m

Cell area

5.8 m

20.0 W/mK

Uv (wind)

0.0 W/mK / m/s

PV Array loss factors

Thermal Loss factor
Wiring Ohmic Loss

Uc (const)
Global array res.

Module Quality Loss

Module Mismatch Losses
Incidence effect, ASHRAE parametrization
System Parameter
Battery
Battery Pack Characteristics

IAM =
System type
Model
Manufacturer
Voltage
Nb. of units

Regulator

Temperature
Model
Technology

35 mOhm

Loss Fraction

1.5 % at STC

1 - bo (1/cos i - 1)

Loss Fraction
Loss Fraction
bo Param.

1.5 %
2.5 % (fixed voltage)
0.05

Stand Alone System

Open 12V / 100 Ah
Generic
48 V
Nominal Capacity

Fixed (20C)
Generic Default with DC-DC converter
DC-DC converter

Converter
Maxi and EURO efficiencies
Battery Management Thresholds
Charging

97.0/95.0 %
54.7/52.3 V

Back-Up Genset Command

47.3/51.6 V

User's needs :

PVsyst Evaluation mode

100 Ah

4 in series

Daily household consumers

average

Temp coeff.
DC Input voltage
Discharging

Constant over the year

2.9 kWh/Day

-5.0 mV/C/elem.
0.0V
47.0/50.4 V

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Stand Alone System: Detailed User's needs

Project :

Stand Alone Project at Mumbai

Simulation variant :

New simulation variant

Main system parameters

PV Field Orientation
PV Array
Battery
battery Pack
User's needs

System type
tilt
Nb. of modules
Model

Stand alone
30
4
Open 12V / 100 Ah

azimuth
Pnom total
Technology

0
1040 Wp
vented, plates

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Nb. of units
Daily household consumers

4
Voltage / Capacity
Constant over the year
global

48 V / 100 Ah
1051 kWh/year

Daily household consumers, Constant over the year, average = 2.9 kWh/day
Annual values

Fluorescent lamps
Total daily energy

PVsyst Evaluation mode

Number

Power

120 W/lamp

Use

24 h/day

Energy
2880 Wh/day
2880 Wh/day

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Stand Alone System: Main results

Project :

Stand Alone Project at Mumbai

Simulation variant :

New simulation variant

System type
tilt
Nb. of modules
Model

Main system parameters

PV Field Orientation
PV Array
Battery

Stand alone
30
4
Open 12V / 100 Ah

0
1040 Wp
vented, plates

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battery Pack
User's needs

Nb. of units
Daily household consumers

4
Voltage / Capacity
Constant over the year
global

48 V / 100 Ah
1051 kWh/year

Available Energy
Used Energy

Specific prod.
1749 kWh/year
1025 kWh/year Excess (unused)

1682 kWh/kWp/year
672 kWh/year

49.4 %

97.5 %

Main simulation results

System Production

Performance Ratio PR

Loss of Load

Time Fraction

Solar Fraction SF

2.5 %

Missing Energy

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 1040 Wp

10

26 kWh/year

Performance Ratio PR and Solar Fraction SF

1.2

Lu : Unused energy (full battery)

Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses)
Ls : System losses and battery charging
Yf : Energy supplied to the user
8

1.77 kWh/kWp/day
0.72 kWh/kWp/day
0.28 kWh/kWp/day
2.7 kWh/kWp/day

PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) :

0.494
SF : Solar Fraction (ESol / ELoad) : 0.975

1.0

0.8

Performance Ratio PR

Normalized Energy [kWh/kWp/day]

azimuth
Pnom total
Technology

0.6

0.4

2
0.2

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

0.0

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

New simulation variant

Balances and main results
GlobHor

GlobEff

E Avail

EUnused

E Miss

E User

E Load

kWh/m

kWh/m

kWh

kWh

kWh

kWh

kWh

January

147.3

190.0

175.9

80.27

0.00

89.28

89.28

1.000

February

155.2

182.9

168.8

83.48

0.00

80.64

80.64

1.000

March

195.7

204.7

188.4

94.02

0.00

89.28

89.28

1.000

April

202.3

187.3

172.3

80.98

0.00

86.40

86.40

1.000

May

207.6

174.1

162.2

68.15

0.00

89.28

89.28

1.000

June

148.3

121.2

103.4

15.51

1.30

85.10

86.40

0.985

July

119.0

100.7

87.1

11.49

14.34

74.94

89.28

0.839

August

122.8

109.0

89.5

2.93

7.83

81.45

89.28

0.912

September

142.6

139.8

123.8

36.55

2.91

83.49

86.40

0.966

October

160.0

177.3

156.6

62.86

0.00

89.28

89.28

1.000

November

141.1

175.5

156.0

66.72

0.00

86.40

86.40

1.000

December

135.4

177.9

165.0

69.24

0.00

89.28

89.28

1.000

Year

1877.3

1940.5

1749.2

672.20

26.38

1024.82

1051.20

0.975

Legends:

PVsyst Evaluation mode

GlobHor

Horizontal global irradiation

E Miss

Missing energy

GlobEff

Effective Global, corr. for IAM and shadings

E User

Energy supplied to the user

E Avail

Available Solar Energy

E Load

Energy need of the user (Load)

EUnused

Unused energy (full battery) loss

SolFrac

Solar fraction (EUsed / ELoad)

SolFrac

Nov

Dec

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Stand Alone System: Loss diagram

Project :

Stand Alone Project at Mumbai

Simulation variant :

New simulation variant

System type
tilt
Nb. of modules
Model

Main system parameters

PV Field Orientation
PV Array
Battery
battery Pack
User's needs

Stand alone
30
4
Open 12V / 100 Ah

azimuth
Pnom total
Technology

0
1040 Wp
vented, plates

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Nb. of units
Daily household consumers

4
Voltage / Capacity
Constant over the year
global

48 V / 100 Ah
1051 kWh/year

Loss diagram over the whole year

1877 kWh/m

+6.4%

-2.8%

1941 kWh/m * 7 m coll.

Horizontal global irradiation

Global incident in coll. plane
IAM factor on global

Effective irradiance on collectors

efficiency at STC = 15.42%

PV conversion

2020 kWh

-0.5%

Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

PV loss due to irradiance level

-14.6% PV loss due to temperature

-1.0%

Module quality loss

-1.7%

Module array mismatch loss

-0.6%

Ohmic wiring loss

-2.4%

Loss by respect to the MPP running

-41.5%

1131 kWh

Effective energy at the output of the array

-4.8%
0.0%

Missing energy
1077 kWh
2.5%
26.4 kWhDirect use Stored
32.6%
67.4%

+0.1%
-3.6%
-0.4%
-0.1%

PVsyst Evaluation mode

Unused energy (full battery) loss

Converter Loss during operation (efficiency)

Converter Loss due to power threshold
Converter losses (effic, overload)
Battery Storage
Battery Stored Energy balance
Battery efficiency loss

1025 kWh

Gassing Current (electrolyte dissociation)

Battery Self-discharge Current
Energy supplied to the user

1051 kWh

Energy need of the user (Load)