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COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Hybrid electric power generator (photovoltaic – fuel generator) for remote areas
Submission Author:
Carlos Vital Pinto Costa Junior , MA
Co-Authors:
KEYLL MARTINS, Anthony Soares de Alencar, Gleydson Hiago Sousa Oliveira, Evandro Martins, Itallo Francisco Belo da Silva, Kaio Lourenço Teixeira Barbosa, Manuelle da Silva Serejo, Carlos Vital Pinto Costa Junior
Presenter: Carlos Vital Pinto Costa Junior
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-2279
Abstract
Nowadays the development of clean and sustainable energy has been growing, the reasons for this growth are related to environmental awareness or to decrease costs. The Sun is one of the most abundant energy resources over the planet. Solar energy is used for several purposes, for example, to produce chemical energy on plants by photosynthesis, as heat source for many procedures and to produce electric energy. There are two main methods to produce electric energy using solar energy, there are thermosolar and photovoltaic systems. The first one uses solar energy as heat to run a thermal cycle, as Rankine. The second one uses the photovoltaic phenomenon, which uses the light from the Sun to create electric energy through a semiconductor. Despite the utilization of solar energy is increasing, in many countries in development, the usage of fuel generator is quite common, mainly in remote areas, where the electric distribution is deficient. Therefore, using a hybrid source of electric energy, such as photovoltaic and fuel generator is a solution for those problems. Studies confirm, in many cases, the hybrid power systems are reliable, efficient, besides reduces impacts on environment and costs with fuel. This work built a structure where contains all the equipment for hybrid power system such as fuel generator, solar generator of 265W, a battery bank for energy storage, charge controller. The structure is mountable, allowing the owner to disassemble it, and assemble where is more convenient.
Keywords
Hybrid energy, photovoltaic energy, Remote areas, renewable energy
