Stand Alone Hybrid Photovoltaic/Thermal System

摘要

Solar is one of the clean, renewable and sustainable sources of energy which has to be harvested everywhere on the earth special places which have extended the sunshine around the year like Malaysia. They involve low-scale accommodation designed with minimal environmental impact. The industry's rapid growth is stressing on the increase in the energy demand, especially in small island developing states where low impact energy sources such as hydroelectricity are often available only in restricted quantities. This research work is aligned with the environmentally sustainable energy which its goals encompass the transformation of existing solar technologies into electrical and thermal energy in an efficient and reliable method. These goals were to address some of the emission, carbon reduction and climate change issues that the world is confronting now. This paper presents the hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) systems and their contribution to the sustainable tourism development of Malaysia. The considered system includes PV array, thermal collectors, controller, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, MPPT and storage tank with heat exchange unit. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme will be evaluated through modeling of both PVT system and by available simulation software such as Multisim and Matlab program. This implementation on the selected area to arrive at a low-cost and vigorous solution is aimed towards the sustainable development in terms of energy conservation and utilization in an optimal mode. Two different fluids, water, and Nanofluid will be used and experimentally tested as a heat transfer. The data will be collected with the precision equipment such as data loggers and will be further analyzed. The end result will be obtained from the setup system and data obtained from the thermal system and PV array will be further compared and evaluated with the expected value by the simulation software.