Development and Performance Evaluation of Roof Top Small Scale Solar PV System

roof top, solar, energy, conversion, power plant

Authors

  • Sudarsono . 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut Sains & Teknologi AKPRIND
  • I G. G. Badrawada Department of Vocational in Mechanical Technology, Institut Sains & Teknologi AKPRIND
  • N. Herawati Department of Computer System Engineering, Institut Sains & Teknologi AKPRIND
  • J. Waluyo Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut Sains & Teknologi AKPRIND
October 28, 2023
November 3, 2023

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Many renewable energy conversion systems have been built in order to reduce the use of fossil fuel and minimize global warming. Solar power plant, one of many renewable energy systems, has promising potential in green energy sector. However, there are only a few solar PV system installed in roof top of a building. Thus, the present work aims to development small scale roof top solar PV system and to investigate its performance.  The 300 WP solar PV system is installed on a roof top of the office building of campus III-IST. AKPRIND. The performance of the system in terms of output current, output voltage, output power, and conversion efficiency. The results shows that maximum output current of 3.91 ampere and maximum output voltage of 58.29 volt were obtained at day 3 and day 5, respectively. The output current give predominant effect on output power of the solar PV system. The trend of output power is similar to that of output current. Maximum output power of 173.25 W was generated at day 3 where maximum output current was measured. Thus, it can be figure out that the solar PV system has an conversion efficiency of almost 58%.