Comparison of Performance between Bi-facial and Mono-facial 10kW Photovoltaic Power Systems

Authors

  • H.D.Milan Ravinath Perera Sustainable Energy Engineering Mahara, Kadawatha Sri Lanka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31695/IJASRE.2020.33799

Keywords:

Mono-crystalline, Bifacial, Mono-Facial, Albedo, Tilt Angle, LCOE, Annual Energy Gain, Performance Ratio

Abstract

This paper is based and written on performance analysis of a 10kW Grid-connected solar power system with a comparison in integration of bifacial photovoltaic systems vs mono-facial photovoltaic systems. Thus, all these tastings were carried out on computer simulations using PVSyst6 software & MATLAB/Simulink. These simulations were done considering different albedos and tilt angles in order to identify power variations under different environmental conditions. The selected panels used mono-crystalline type-high efficiency cells, both in bifacial and mono-facial and therefore, the technical parameters of both cell types will be the same in operating conditions. With the results obtained, it has shown the power gain in ground mounted-grid connected bifacial solar system is 23% more than the mono-facial solar power system and using these details, the researcher proposed a table that represents, most suitable PV panels for different site conditions.

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H.D.Milan Ravinath Perera. (2020). Comparison of Performance between Bi-facial and Mono-facial 10kW Photovoltaic Power Systems. International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering (IJASRE), ISSN:2454-8006, DOI: 10.31695/IJASRE, 6(5), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.31695/IJASRE.2020.33799

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