Design and Simulation of Hybrid Photovoltaic, Wind and Fuel Cell Distributed Generation System for Yekatit 12 Referral Hospital (Fuzzy Based)
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2018-10
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Addis Ababa University
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This thesis deals with the detailed design and simulation of hybrid distributed generation system model of solar/wind and fuel cell in Matlab Simulink, and the power generated from these combined three renewable energy sources serves as a small scale alternative source of electrical energy for four power sensitive departments (Emergency department, Maternity department, surgery department, and Neonatology department) of Yekatit 12 referral hospital with a load demand of around 40KW, and this load to be supplied using the three hybrid components, when the commercial main power is not available.
Due to the production cost and other associated advantages of solar power production over wind and fuel cell power production, 50% of the power demand which is around 20KW is produced from the solar panels, and 20% of the load demand which is around 8KW is produced from wind, and the remaining 30% of the load demand which is around 12KW is produced from the backup Fuel cell Technology which serves during solar power energy shortage seasons.
To use the produced power using the above mentioned three energy resources efficiently, fuzzy logic controller is used to make an intelligent decision by sensing the type and amount of resources available, then it selects the appropriate alternative source, and to perform this Fuzzy rule have been written in fuzzy rule editor and each components of the proposed hybrid system has been modeled using Matlab/Simulink.
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Fuel Cell Technology (FC), Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC), SIMULINK® SimPowerSystems™/ MATLAB®