PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND TRACKING PROTOTYPE FOR SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) INTEGRATED RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM (PEMANTAU)

• Main Author: ISHAK, MOHD NAIM 'AFIFI
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS 2012
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/6396/1/FINAL_REPORT_FYP2.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/6396/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

The purpose of this project is to develop a monitoring and tracking system for renewable energy generation system. The system is called as PEMANTAU, which stands for Performance Monitoring and Tracking Prototype for Integrated Renewable Energy System, consisting of tools for measurements, analysis, and controls of the renewable electricity generating system. PEMANTAU is an important tool for monitoring the performance of solar electricity generating system, for optimum operation. The idea of PEMANTAU is to provide capability to capture important data for analysis which can be used for optimizing the renewable electricity generating system. It is important now to realize that optimization and improvements to the renewable energy system efficiency will bring the change to the nation where, energy consumption today is too dependent on the fossil type of energy. This project is also to support the strategic plan framework of the 10th Malaysia Plan that emphasizes on the importance of using renewable energy to meet Malaysia’s growing energy demand and to reduce the nation's reliance and utilization of fossil fuel for power generation. The earlier phase of PEMANTAU will support a solar-based electricity generating system. This will serve as an early prototype to build the platform for the renewable electricity system. Solar electricity is proved to be an ideal source of potential future electricity. Thus a quick method using simulation is needed to model the impact of solar energy where it can be used to help distribution planners to perform the necessary research and improvements. This report will demonstrate and document all the functionalities and explain methods of the real time monitoring system that models resulting from output to the end user. The GUI-based is designed to make the representation of data more user-friendly. It acquires the measured data which have been transmitted wirelessly. Overall, the objectives of this project have been fully achieved, whereby the PEMANTAU system has been successfully designed and tested. PEMANTAU can be further improved by extending it for other renewable energy based systems.