HOME ASSIGNMENT AND TUTORIAL (2019-20)

EE-423 SOLAR ENERGY AND APPLICATIONS

1. What is the future trend of consumption of energy worldwide, explain?
2. Explain different components of solar energy/ radiation at the earth surface.
3. What do you mean by Air Mass of solar radiation? What is the standard AM considered for solar radiation
for solar PV rating?
4. What do you mean by one-axis tracking and two-axis sun tracking? Explain its merits and demerits.
5. What are different useful definitions useful for estimation of solar radiation on earth?
6. Find suitable tilt angle for Aligarh and justify your estimation.
7. Find the number of sunshine hours for Aligarh on n th day of the year where n=4×your class serial number.
8. Find the monthly-average of daily global radiation on horizontal surface of one of the following cities:
Select the conditions Place For the Month Ñ (in Hrs.) Ho= Ĥo on
S.No. 1 to 6 Srinagar January 4 17th January
S.No. 7 to 12 Delhi February 8 16th February
S.No. 13 to 18 Jodhpur March 11 16th March
S.No. 19 to 24 Ahmadabad April 11 15th April
S.No. 25 to 30 Pune May 10 15th May
S.No. 31 to 36 Mumbai June 10 11th June
S.No. 37 to 42 Nagpur July 11 17th July
S.No. 43 to 48 Bangalore August 10 16th August
S.No. 49 to 54 Chennai September 10 15th September
S.No. 55 to 60 Kolkata October 9 15th October
S.No. 61 to 66 Shilong November 9 14th November
S.No. 67 to 76 Aligarh December 7 10th December

9. Which instrument is used for the measurement of direct solar radiation? Explain its working operation.
Explain solar active heating system for industry.
10. Compare solar thermal and solar PV systems and mention their applications.
11. Classify different solar heat collectors and mention their temperature range.
12. Explain heat transfer mechanism based on thermal resistance by conduction, convection and radiation
13. Find expression for heat transfer by conduction when several layers of different materials are involved.
14. Explain solar passive space cooling system.
15. Explain the generation of current by solar radiation in pn-junction and hence draw the equivalent circuit.
16. What do you mean by mismatch of modules in series and parallel connection?
17. What are arrangements which are required to protect the modules from mismatch, shadowing and passing
clouds?
18. Why is MPPT required for solar PV module based power system, explain?
19. Explain a charge controller used for charging a lead acid battery by solar PV modules.
20. Why is a battery management system (BMS) required for a lithium-ion battery?
21. Explain different types of MPPT schemes required for solar PV modules.
22. Explain different types of standalone PV system.
23. Why is grid-assisted/connected solar PV system preferred? Explain the working of the system.
24. Why is grid-tied solar PV system preferred for commercial application, explain?
25. For an n kWH different type of loads, which include LED and Hg tubes, normal and PMDC motor fans,
fridge, room cooler, design a grid-assisted rooftop solar PV system for domestic or industrial applications,
where n=your class serial number.
26. What do you mean by micro-grid, explain?
27. What do you mean single, multi-crystalline and amorphous cells, explain? Compare their performance.
28. Mention different types of emerging solar cell technologies and explain a newly developed solar PV cell.