Hybrid Solar Panels Combined With Wind Turbine
The solar wind hybrid system combines two of the fastest growing renewable energy technologies. Due to the complementarity of solar and wind energy, this concept has emerged. Solar energy, due to its dependence on sunlight, can only generate electricity during the day (approximately from 8 am to 6 pm). On the other hand, the wind starts to blow in the middle of the night and reaches its peak at night. Due to the inherent characteristics of wind and solar energy, the use of solar-wind hybrid power can rectify electricity production throughout the day. This means that by ensuring that peak power requirements are met, the reliability of the grid can be improved.
Hybrid Solar Panel
The hybrid solar system generates electricity in the same way as the general grid-connected solar system, but uses a special hybrid inverter and battery to store energy for later use. This ability to store energy allows most hybrid systems to be used as a backup power source during power outages, similar to UPS systems.
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Components in Solar Hybrid system
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1.Solar panel
Solar panels are the main component of any solar system. Solar panel observe the sunlight and convert it into DC power. The quantity of solar panel depends upon the capacity of solar system. For example, in 5 KW solar system 15 solar panel of 335 watt and in 10 KW solar system 30 panel of 335 watt capacity is required.
2.Hybrid solar inverter
A hybrid solar inverter is second major component in solar system. Solar inverter regulate the voltage that is passing into battery and your appliances. If needed it also converts DC voltage into AC voltage.
3.Solar battery
Solar batteries provide you backup at the time when solar panels are not generating the power during rain or nights. Solar battery stores unconsumed power in it. In hybrid photovoltaic system, you can fix solar batteries as per you requirement.
There are 3 types of hybrid solar panel
Three Type Of
Hybrid Solar Panel
Wind Turbine
The wind turbine, or occasionally referred to as the wind power generator, is a system that transforms the energy of the wind into electrical power. Wind turbines are produced in a broad variety of vertical and horizontal axes. The smallest turbines are used for purposes such as the charging of batteries for auxiliary power for vessels or caravans or for the signaling of traffic signals. Larger turbines can be used to make contributions to the domestic electricity system while selling surplus power back to the energy provider through the electricity grid. The network of massive turbines, known as wind farms, is becoming an increasingly valuable source of intermittent renewable power and is being used by multiple countries as part of a plan to decrease their dependency on fossil fuels.
Types of Wind Turbine
Wind turbine can be classified in 2 types, wind turbines can spin either horizontally or vertically and most of the horizontally and vertically have around large three blade, the former being both older and more common. They can either have knives, or they can be blade-less. For example, the blade-less wind turbine have the Darrieus wind turbine, Giromill, Savonius wind turbine, and parallel. Vertical designs are less powerful and less popular. In Malaysia we haven’t seen any wind turbine that is blade-less. The material of the wind turbine are glass and carbon fibers. The rigidity of the composites is defined by the density of the fibers and their volume value. Usually, E-glass fibers are used as the primary reinforcement for composites.
Usually, glass / epoxy composites for wind generators contain up to 75% glass by weight. This improves stiffness, tensile strength and compression strength. A promising composite material is glass fiber with modified formulations such as S-glass, R-glass, etc. Other glass fibers produced by Owens Corning include ECRGLAS, Advantex and Wind Strand. Carbon fiber has a higher tensile strength, higher stiffness and lower density than glass fiber. The optimal candidate for these properties is the spar cap, a structural feature of a blade that has a high tensile load. A 100-m glass fiber blade could weigh up to 50 metric tons, while using carbon fiber in the spar saves 20 to 30 per cent of the weight, around 15 metric tons. However, as carbon fiber is ten times costlier, glass fiber is still prevalent.