SPV

1. What are the major advantages and disadvantages of solar PV system?

2. Describe the principle of solar photovoltaic energy conversion.
3. What do you understand by energy payback period?
4. Explain I-V characteristics of a solar cell and define fill factor. What is the significance of fill
factor?
5. Explain how variation of insolation and temperature affects I-V characteristics of solar cell.
6. Draw and explain the equivalent circuit of a practical solar PV cell.
7. Describe the classification of solar cell based on the type of active materials used.
8. Describe a single crystalline solar cell with constructional details.
9. With the help of block diagrams explain the operation of standalone and grid interactive SPV
systems.

10. Draw the equivalent circuit of a solar cell. Explain how we can get maximum power from
a solar cell and deduce expression for that.
11. A solar cell of active area 6 cm2 gave the following results:
Voc = 400 mV, Isc = 200 mA, incident intensity 80 mW/cm2. What is the energy
conversion efficiency of the device? (Assume fill factor of 80%)
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13. Using Betz model of wind turbine derive the expression for extracted from a wind. What is Betz
criterion?
14. Define Betz limit and derive an expression for maximum power coefficient for wind turbine.

15. Wind speed is 10 m/s at the standard atmospheric pressure. Calculate :

(i) total power density in wind stream, (ii) total power produced by a turbine of 100 m
diameter with an efficiency of 40%, Air density = 1.226 J/kg-K/m 3.
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