People's Democratic Republic of Algeria

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Algeria

Blida 1 University

Technical English course for students in Renewable

Energies

Prepared and presented by

Dr. BOUKENOUI Rachid
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 The course outline
This course is split into a series of sections, covering:
The most used verbs and terms in the field of renewable
energies.

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Reading Mathematical symbols and units

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Reading and writing mathematical formulas

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Type of conventional and renewable energies

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PV system

Type of PV systems

Standalone systems

Grid connected systems

Solar PV hybrid systems

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PV system
PV GENERATOR (PVG)

PVG structure:

PV cell, PV module, PV Array, Bypass diodes

PV module with 3 Bypass diodes

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PV system
PV modules configuration

Series connection

Parallel connection

Series-Parallel connection

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PV system
PV cell technologies

Crystalline Silicon (C-Si) technologies

Poly-Crystalline Mono-Crystalline
Poly Silicon Mono Silicon
C-Si C-Si

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PV system
PV cell technologies

Thin Film technologies

Cadmium Copper Indium Amorphous

Telluride Gallium Selenide AS Silicon
CdTe CIGS

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PV system
PV interface configurations:

(a) string, (b) centralized (c) multistring

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PV system
Power stage interface

Types Of DC-DC converters and DC-AC inverters

DC-DC converter DC-AC inverters

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MPPT techniques
MPPT methods Local MPPTs

They track the

Conventional MPPTs Improved MPPTs Artificial intelligent MPPTs
MPP under UICs

- Fractional Short-Circuit Current - Modified versions of HC MPPT - Artificial Neural Networks

- Fractional Open-Circuit Voltage - Modified versions of P&O - Fuzzy Logic Controller
- Look-up Table - Modified versions of InCond MPPT
- Perturb and Observe
- Hill Climbing
- Incremental Conductance

Global MPPTs
Soft computing
Hybrid MPPTs
techniques

They track the

- ANN + conventional InCond - Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
desired MPP under
- GA+ conventional P&O - both
Cuckoo Search (CS)
- ACO + conventional P&O UICs and
- Ant Colony
PSCsOptimization (ACO)
- PSO + conventional P&O
- PSO+ conventional InCond - Artificial Bee Colony (ABC)
- Modified InCond + FLC - Simulated Annealing
- Genetic Algorithm (GA)
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 How to download a research or conference paper

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 The difference between research paper and conference paper

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 Discuss recent research papers in the field of renewable energies

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