Standalone PV Systems

The Electrical Engineering Department is pleased to
invite youto attend a lecture on
Standalone PV Systems
Presenter:
Mr. Tamer Khati
b
Time: Tuesday February 12th, 2013,
14:00-15:00PM
Venue: Faculty of E
ngineering, Communications Laboratory-ENG 341
Abstract
Based on the factthat PV systems are clean, environment friendly, and secure energy sourc
es, PV system installation has played an important role worldwide. PV syst
ems can be classified based on their configuration whereas three main PV sy
stems can be found in field namely standalone PV systems, grid PV systems
and hybrid PV systems. Standalone PV systems are used in remote area for el
ectrifications where such a system is not connected to the electricity grid
. A typical PV system consisting of a PV module/ array, power conditioner
such as charge controller or maximum power point tracking controller, stor
age batteries, inverter, and load. In this presentation, scientific, te
chnical and social issues for standalone PV are reviewed. These issues incl
ude solar cells history and principle, standalone PV system components, s
tandalone PV systems power electronic features, standalone PV system desig
n, reliability of standalone PV systems and opportunities and challenges f
or SAPV in Palestine.
Speaker
Tamer is an applied photovoltaics professio
nal. He holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical power systems from An-Najah Nati
onal University, Palestine as well as a M.Sc. degree and a Ph.D degree in
applied photovoltaic from National University of Malaysia, Malaysia. Curre
ntly he is an associate editor for International Journal of Advanced Renewa
ble Energy Research.
So far, he has 1 patent, 1 book and 46 research art
icles. His published articles received more than 134 citations meanwhile Hi
s current h-index is 7, g-index is 01 and i10-index is 4. Furthermore, hehas served as a reviewer for 134 research. In addition to that, he has se
rved as a scientific committee member for 15 international conferences. He
has lectured 4 courses for undergraduate students, supervised 1 master res
earch, 4 bachelor researches and delivered 8 training courses.
He is a me
mber of IEEE, IEEE Power and Energy Society, The International Solar Ener
gy society, Jordanian Engineers Association, Palestinian Solar and Sustai
nable Energy Association and International Association of Engineers.
His r
esearch interests mainly fall in the scope of photovoltaic systems and sola
r energy fundamentals. These interests include PV systems design and optimi
zation, modeling and control of PV systems, hybrid PV/Wind systems, hybr
id PV/diesel systems, Grid connected PV systems, sun trackers, MPPT tech
nology, inverters in PV system, solar chargers, batteries and charge con
trollers, solar energy fundamentals, solar energy prediction, AI applica
tions for solar energy and PV systems, wind power systems, wind chargers
, wind energy modeling and prediction.
All Are Welcome