Power parameters monitoring system

Siti Syahirah, Abdul Mutalib (2014) Power parameters monitoring system. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The growth of renewable energy as an alternative source of power supply nowadays has been widely discovered and used. In fact, most consumers tend to install one of the renewable energy that is known as solar photovoltaic. This solar PV is installed in their houses and also industrial sectors since government had introduced and providing the subsidy funding via Feed-in-Tariff (FiT). The solar photovoltaic has a feature that the energy stored by solar supply into the battery is decreasing at anytime. Therefore, a monitoring system need to be developed in order to measure power consumption based on the type of source currently in use, either main grid utility or solar supply. In this project, a system for monitoring the performance of green energy is developed with an appropriate measurement of power line. The information and data collected are obtained by monitoring parameters including voltage, current, frequency, active power, reactive power, apparent power and the power factor. The entire system is designed with the implementation of data acquisition (DAQ card), personal computer (PC) as well as the utilization of Visual Basic 2010. Visual Basic 2010 is used to display the data via graphical user interface (GUI) development. The user-friendly software is developed in terms of managing and controlling the system via interface designed. A laboratory testing is conducted to determine system performance after the combination of software and hardware prior practically applied. At the end of this project, the monitoring system are used and applied especially in residences and industrial sector in order to enable the measurement on performance of solar energy.

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