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Introduction to Solar Energy Course
April 9, 2018 @ 08:00 - April 14, 2018 @ 17:00
The course consists of a study of both Photovoltaics (PV) and Solar-thermal technologies for generating electricity from sunlight. The principles, manufacturing technologies, efficiencies, advantages and limitations of various PV cells will be considered. The students should be able to design a manufacturing plant as well as practical installations of various PV components in a cost effective way.
The different solar-thermal systems will be introduced with the basic heat transfer and thermodynamics principles that apply. Both bulk electricity generation and smaller stand alone systems will be covered.
Main themes:
- Principles of operation of PV cells
- Manufacturing technologies of crystalline and thin film PV cells
- Balance of system (BOS): regulators, inverters and storage
- Design of stand alone PV systems
- Design of roof mounted grid connected PV systems
- Design of large MW PV systems
- Concentrators: combined heat and power generation (CHP).
- Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer
- Bulk solar thermal power generation systems
- Energy storage
- Large scale plant specifics and quantification
- Life cycle costing.
Online registration links for this short course will be active from mid February.
For more info contact the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies:
- crses@sun.ac.za
- Tel: 021 808 4069
