Ecosense
Sustainable Solutions Pvt. Ltd. installed Solar PV Training and Research System
in Department of Electrical Engineering at DKTE Society’s Textile Engineering
Institute, Kolhapur.
Ecosense
Sustainable Solutions Pvt. Ltd. installed Solar PV Training and Research System
in Department of Electrical Engineering at DKTE Society’s Textile Engineering
Institute, Kolhapur.
DKTE Society’s
Textile Engineering Institute, Kolhapur is an Autonomous Institute affiliated
to Shivaji University, came in to existence with a view to start institutes and
colleges to cater to technical education in the field of textiles, engineering,
management and other related disciplines.
Ecosense’s Solar
PV lab enables users to learn about Solar PV Technology in a very easy and
interactive manner. Solar PV Lab educates users in three different branches of
Solar PV Technology that are Solar PV characteristics, Solar PV Standalone/Grid
Tied configurations and Solar PV Research Area.
Ecosense’s Solar
PV Training and research system enables
user to learn about Solar PV standalone technology. Using this system, a user
gains knowledge in three fields of Solar PV Standalone system:
1) Physics of Solar PV Panels —
I-V and P-V characteristics, series and parallel connection of solar panels
effect of irradiation, effect of temperature, effect of shadow, effect of
tilting of panels, effect of geographical location etc.
2) Components and Assembly of standalone system — use of blocking diode, use of bypass diode, use of solar charge controller, use of solar inverter, difference between MPPT and PWM charge controllers, AC load, DC load, battery charging/ discharging characteristics, assembly of several components and power flow calculations in each branch.
3) Research in PV systems — Ecosense separately provides a research unit along with standalone experimental system. User can initiate research in the area of maximum power point tracking using this unit. It has provision of providing automatic as well as manual gate signals to charge controller. User can use his/ her own MPPT algorithm with any of the controller to provide manual gate signals.
This system
allows students to learn the concepts in step by step manner as first few
experiments explains about physics of the system which is very important to
understand the science behind the system. It enhances user’s theoretical
knowledge about solar PV systems. Then, further experiments lead to components
and assembly of a standalone Solar PV Power plant which educates students about
what are the components used in a standalone solar PV system, what are their
usage and what should be their ideal size to make an optimum functioning Solar
PV Standalone power plant. After these basic essential experiments students
have all the necessary knowledge about Solar PV Standalone system and to
further increase their understanding Ecosense’s Solar PV Training and Research
system also offers research experiments where an individual can gradually move
to a research mindset from technical mindset. These experiments focus on
discovering ways to utilize maximum power from a Solar PV standalone system. These
experiments help students/users to start thinking from the perspective of
research in the field of Solar energy or renewable energy systems.
Ecosense also conducted a masters
training program at Electrical Lab. This Masters training program was focused
on educating and training the professors, scholars and technicians in Solar
Photovoltaic Technology who will further train thousands of students and
professionals to start their career or business in this very field.
