INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE INDEX ANALYSIS OF

SOLAR POWERED INVERTER FOR COMPUTER LABORATORY

BY

AJE MIRACLE JESUFEMI

FPA/FT/EE/20/3-0010

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE

AWARD OF HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA (HND) IN ELECTRICAL

ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC

ENGINEERING, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, THE FEDERAL

POLYTECHNIC, ADO-EKITI, EKITI STATE.

DECEMBER, 2022.

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 CERTIFICATION

This is to certify that this project work was carried out by AJE MIRACLE JESUFEMI

FPA/EE/20/3-0010, of the department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering of The Federal

Polytechnic Ado Ekiti, Nigeria and it is accepted as meeting the requirements for the award

of Higher National Diploma (HND) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.

_______________________ _ ____________________
Engr. O.S. Adeoye Engr. Adebayo A.A.
(Supervisor) (HOD)

__________________________
External Supervisor

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 DEDICATION

I dedicate this project to all that believes in what God has deposited into their life,

illuminance of the world, self reliance and develop the nation. More so, to all generation to

come in this department and also to my Late father Mr James Olufemi Aje (RIP).

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 AKNOWLEDGEMENT

I give all glory, honour and adoration to God almighty for his unmerited grace and

favour upon my life and over my academics, may his name be glorified.

Also with all sense of humility, I appreciate my project supervisor, Engr. O.S. Adeoye.

who contributed his time, love and advice for the success of this project work. I also

appreciate the effort of all my lecturers who have in one way or the other contributed to my

academic success.

I deeply want to appreciate my beloved mother Mrs Aje and the family of Adu for their

unrelated support both spiritually, morally, financially and emotionally for seeing me through

this program and bringing to the realization of who I am now.

I also appreciate my brother Aje Emmanuel and my sisters Bukola, Elizabeth and

Esther for their financial support, words of encouragement, support and contributions to my

life.

Also to my friends, and all HND II Electrical and Electronic Engineering students,

2021/2022 academic session, I appreciate you all for making the journey a memorable one.

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TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page i

Certification ii

Dedication iii

Acknowledgment iv

Table of content v

Abstract ix

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 Introduction 1

1.1 Background of the project 2

1.2 Problem statement 2

1.3 Aim and objective 3

1.4 Significance of the study 3

1.5 Limitations 4

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature Review 5

2.1 Overview of the study 5

2.2 Overview of Solar Energy 6

2.3 Maximum Angle of Inclination 8

2.2 Basic principle of solar inverter 9

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2.5 Need for Solar Inverter 9

2.6.1 Solar Panel 11

2.6.2 Charge Controller 14

2.6.3 Battery 16

2.6.4 Inverter 17

2.7 Performance Indicators of the PV System 19

2.8 Impacts of solar panel on power quality distribution network & harmonics 21

2.9 Harmonic Distortion 22

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 Methodology 23

3.1 Experimental set-up and measurement 23

3.2 Power Data Loggers 24

3.3 Solar Panel Installation Process 26

3.4 Calculating The Load 28

3.5.1 Solar Panel Sizing 29

3.5.2 Connecting Your Solar Panels 29

3.5.3 Solar Regulators 30

3.6.1 Charge Controller 31

3.7 Charging Time of The Battery 32

3.8 Charge Controller Sizing 32

3.9 The Battery 33

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 Result and Discussion 36

4.1 Introduction 36

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4.2 Results 36

4.2.1 Case 1 – No load 36

4.2.2 Case 2 – Under load 36

4.3 Discussion on Load Test Result 39

4.4 Procedure for carrying out the harmonic test 40

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0 Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation 41

5.1 Summary 41

5.2 Conclusion 41

5.3 Recommendation 41

5.4 Project Cost Estimation 42

REFERENCE 43

ABSTRACT

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In recent years, the interest in solar energy has risen due to deluge oil prices and

environmental concern. In many remote or nascent areas, direct access to an electric grid is

contrary to reason and a photovoltaic inverter system would make life much lucid and more

adaptable. With this in mind, this project targets to install and carry out performance index

analysis of solar powered inverter. This inverter system could be used as a backup power

during outages, battery charging or for a typical computer laboratory. The chief features of

the system are a true 50Hz, 230Vrms sinusoidal voltage output, a wide input range, and pulse

width modulation (PWM). This project describes the procedure of solar panel installation and

Performance Index (PI) determination. The benefit of this project is to give access to an

everlasting and pollution free source of energy.

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