JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Solar Radiation and Measurements : Solar radiation - Energy Balance, Earth sun-angles-Types of Radiation, Measurements, solar Charts-Empirical equations for predicting the availability of solar radiation – Computation of radiation on inclined surfaces- Solar radiation data

UNIT - II

Photovoltaic Fundamentals: Place of PV in energy supply – PV Modules and cost-review of semiconductor physics and Operating principle-–Introduction to P-N junction: Equilibrium and non equilibrium conditions-Design of solar cells: Cell parameters limits-Losses in solar cells-Solar cell design for high Isc,, Voc and FF.

UNIT - III

Solar cell technologies: Si wafer based solar cell: Process of solar cell technology-Efficiency of Si cells; Thin film technologies: Materials-deposition techniques-Amorphous Si cells- Cadmium telluride celss-Thin film crystalline and poly crystalline Si cells-concentrator technologies-Optics for concentrators PV-Tracking requirements-High concentrator solar cells-Emerging solar cell technologies.

UNIT - IV

PV module and PV System applications: Solar PV modules-Mismatch in series and parallel connection-design & structure of PV modules-PV module power output-Batteries for PV systems- DC to DC and DC to AC converters-charge controllers-MPPT; Stand alone PV systems-Design methodology of PV systems-Wire sizing in PV systems-Grid connected and hybrid PV systems

UNIT - V

Solar Thermal Systems and applications: Solar Flat plate collectors, Concentrating Collectors, Compound Parabolic Collector, Collector Efficiency. Solar water heating Systems, Solar Cookers, Solar Dryers and Industrial Process heating.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Generating Electricity from the Sun/Edited by Fred C. Treble/Pergamon Press
• 2. Solar photovoltaics-Fundamentals, technologies and Applications/Chetan Singh Solanki/PHI Learning private Ltd. New Delhi
• 3. Terrestrial Solar photovoltaics/Tapan Bhattacharya/Narosa Publishing House
• 4. Solar Electricity /Edited by Tomas Markvart/John Wiley and Sons
• 5. Solar Cells – Operating Principles, Technology and System Applications /Martin A. Green/Prentice Hall Inc
• 6. Modelling Photovoltaic Systems using P Spice/Luis Castaner and Santiago Silvestre/John Wiley and Sons
• 7. Solar Energy – Fundamentals and Applications/H.P. Garg and J. Prakash / Tata McGraw-Hill
• 8. Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells/K. Takahashi and M. Konagai/North Oxford Academic
• 9. Photovoltaic Systems Engineering/Roger Messenger/CRC Press