TITLE:
Utilization of Railway Track for Grid Connected PV System
AUTHORS:
Md. Akibur Rahaman, Md. Mustaque Nadim, Syeed Rafiee Abied, Sayedur Rahman, Md. Mahmud Hassan, Moshiur Rahman Ripon
KEYWORDS:
Pv Array, MPPT, DC/DC Converter, Solar Irradiation
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Power and Energy Engineering,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
30,
2020
ABSTRACT: Electric power is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity (1). But
access to electricity still remains a distant dream for majority of the
population living in the remote and arid areas of developing countries mostly
Indian sub-continent. Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have shown their
potential in rural electrification projects around the world. Photovoltaic (PV)
systems (2) use wafers, which are typically made of crystalline silicon when exposed
to sunlight, will produce a small direct current. Available free land is very
limited in Bangladesh. So to setup a solar PV Power plant, an alternate has
been investigated in this paper work. The available free space over the railway
tracks has been considered for power generation. The design calculation and
analysis were carried out before it was modeled, simulated in SAM (Version 6.1). The
aim of the paper is to analyze the
technical description of a photovoltaic system, analyzing each of the elements,
the presentation of different types of existing plants and the regulation, and
presenting a proposal of such a plant based on the theoretical considerations
and calculations.