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To Design a High Voltage

Transformer-less Solar
Inverter with Input High
Voltage Regulator

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Project

Members

Luqman

Ahmed (EE-804)

Syed Usama Hassan (EE-803)

Chaudry Asad ur Rehman (EE-788)

Project

Advisor

A/P Muhammad Farhan Khan

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Agenda:
General Idea
Goals
Impact
Block Diagram
Solar Panel
Buck-Boost Converter
Inverter
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1. General Idea
To

design a battery-less system

High voltage and transformer
less solar inverter
Cost effective
Efficient
Continuous supply of power
without any interruption(daytime)
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Problem Statement
Conventional

Solar Systems

Low input voltage

Transformer problems
Battery
System Sizes
Maintenance
Price

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Conventional Systems
(1KW)
Battery bank may cost 15,000 PKR.
Most of the price in an inverter is covered by
its transformer. A transformer in each system
takes approximately 5,500 PKR to make 1K W
system.

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Motivation / Aim
Usage

of high input voltage

To overcome the Battery issue
Transformer-less inverter
Less maintenance
To minimize the price
Energy Efficient System

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Our System (1KW)

No cost of batteries (saves 15,000 PKR)
No cost of Transformers (saves 5,500
PKR)
Less heavier, easily portable
Buck-Boost converter for regulation
Transformer-less inverter due to high
input voltage
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5. Block Diagram

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4. Impact
Enhancement in power Engineering:
Enlargement and application of our planned
project would not only give the investigators and
students a chance to go in depth about the study
and visualization of the modern concepts of power
engineering
Large scale:
It will let the Engineers all across Pakistan to think
about same sort of idea on a larger scale.
Renewal energy
These phases, would provide us a path on walk on
for the further development of renewal energy
sources with least environment damage
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6. Solar Panels
Solar Panel can be designed by 4
types of solar cells
1-Mono crystalline solar cell
2-Poly crystalline solar cell
3-All black and
4-Hybrid
In our project we are using that
solar panels which consists of
mono crystalline solar cells
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Benefits of Mono crystalline Solar

Panels over others

Some

solat websites suggest

that single crystalline solar
panels can last up to 50
years.
They have high efficiency.
Greater Heat Resistance.
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Monocrystalline
Comparison
chart

Polycrystalline

Typical module
efficiency

15-20%

13-16%

Best research cell

efficiency

25.0%

20.4%

Area required for

1 kWp

6-9 m2

8-9 m2

Typical length of
warranty

25 years

25 years

Lowest price

0.75 $/W

0.62 $/W

Temperature
resistance

Performance drops Less temperature

10-15% at high
resistant than
temperatures
monocrystalline

Additional details

Oldest cell
technology and
most widely used
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Less silicon waste in

the production
process
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Buck-boost Regulator:
A

Buck-Boost converter is a type

of switched mode power supply
that combines the principles of
the Buck Converter and the Boost
Converterin a single circuit. It
provides a regulated DC output
voltage from either an AC or a DC
input.

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Operation as a Buck Converter:

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Operation as a Boost Converter

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Combined Operation

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Inverters
Input voltage

12 VDC, for smaller consumer and

commercial inverters that typically run
from a rechargeable 12V lead acid battery.
24 and 48 VDC, which are common
standards for home energy systems.
200 to 400 VDC, when high power
output is required

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General Diagram

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Approximate Cost
Cost

of the Project: 75,500 PKR

Cost

of Solar Panels: 1,10,000

PKR

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Conclusion

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