POWER PROJECTS

Power Projects India training course is interesting and thought provoking

about Power Systems Engineering. In the last five days, I have come across
three different softwares (PVSYST, DIALux and HOMERPro) and the trainers
gave an insight and also solved example problems for better understanding of
concepts and software.
PVSYST-Photovoltaic System Software is a Techno-commercial software
designed by Group of Energy, Institute of Energy and science, University of
Geneva to understand more about solar panel and its cost of installation and
maintenance. Location plays a crucial role in the operation of Solar panel and
this software has the option in database. As soon as you open the PVSYST
window, you having the option to select any geographical sites in this world.
Based on the geographical site, software automatically will calculate global,
diffuse radiations and also wind speed and all other necessary parameters.
There are two different types of design options to select after selecting
geographical sites, Preliminary and Project design. Preliminary design is
primitive design model, if you give the basic details about the site location and
Area (m2) or nominal (kWp) or Annual Yield (MWh/Year), it will simulate and
will show the results about Annual cost involved, total installation cost, Nominal
power and Annual Power yield. Project design is about detailed study, were you
have to give the detailed information about Wp rating of PV module, Inverter
size, number of inverters to be connected to match the power demand (kWp),
number of panels to be connected in series and also about the losses. Project
design also has an option to model our own area with buildings and trees to
calculate the accurate value of shading in PV panel.
 In all Simulation study we should make sure that the Loss by respect to
optimum should be 0%. Based on this the software automatically will select the
tilt angle to produce maximum watts.
DIALux software is designed by GmbH, Germany and it helps to calculate
the lux required for particular area for better vision and operation of humans
without eye irritation and also to avoid accident in workplace. This software has
tie-up with 299 companies; in luminaire option we can select any manufacturing
company light of any rating.
As soon as we open the DIALux software, there is a window to select three
different options, interior, exterior and street project. Based about the
requirement we can select any option. Interior project helps to design lighting
for house, commercial building or practically of any interior structure. Software
has in-built model of all interior equipments, we can simply drag and place
anywhere in the workspace. Same way in luminaire section we can select
different lamp of different rating.
Same way the number lamps required for outdoor design projects (stadium
and ground) and roads can also be simulated using this software. This software
has in-build components (windows, door, table, laptop, pot, trees, furniture,
desktop monitor, TV, printer, human model and so on) were you can select and
drag into workspace for effective design. There is also option to distribute lamps
(single, line, field, circular and flood light arrangement) for effective design.
DIALux has Isolines and False colour display option. After selecting the
rating of the lamps and placing them in appropriate position, above options
(Isolines and False colour) will give clear picture of the distribution of lux in
each and every part. By changing the aiming point we can make the light to
distribute equally in all location.
 HOMERPro or HOMER ((Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Electric
Renewables) is Techno-commercial software designed by Homer Energy for
simplifying the task of evaluating designs for both off-grid and grid-connected
power systems. This software has load, components and resource options; in
load option we can select residential, industrial and commercial load for our
simulation. Software has in-build data and also we can feed our own data based
on the required.
Component has in-build structure (converter, grid, controller, battery, PV,
wind turbine, boiler, hydro, thermal load controller and so on) and we can select
any option according to our need. There is a design box at the top and we can
select chose all the equipments that we need to connect and simulate. This
software has the option to select the location as well which will very useful for
simulation of PV module.
HOMERPro software simulates energy systems, shows system
configurations optimized by cost, and provides sensitivity analyses for different
case study for better understanding and for effective design of power projects.

Training staffs are so interactive, calm and humble. They are always ready
to stop the lecture at any time to clear the doubts. Looking forward to learn
ETAP and power flow study.