Incorporating solar panels for household applications

• Main Author: Tan, De Hao.
• Other Authors: Gooi Hoay Beng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Power electronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40364
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As natural resources are depleting on planet earth, the increase in demand for renewable energy resources is high. Households system will be a good area to research on in the saturated commercial market. The efficiency of electricity and maintaining a constant supply voltage is a concern here. Sine wave inverters that make use of Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation Technique are used here. With the use of suitable filters, sine waves with little harmonics were produced. A DC to DC Boost Converter circuit was built to replace the inability of transformer to step up low voltages to the required amount. To maintain the AC output voltage at the inverter, a feedback system was built to adjust the Boost converter accordingly.