TY - GEN
T1 - Solar-powered boat design using standalone distributed PV system
AU - Chao, Ru Min
AU - Lin, Hung Ku
AU - Wu, Chih Hsuan
N1 - Funding Information:
The support by the Ministry of Science and Technology under MOST 104-2221-E-006-255-MY3 and 106-2622-E-006-031-CC2 is acknowledged
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/6/22
Y1 - 2018/6/22
N2 - Due to the shortage for fossil fuel and the environmental pollution problem, renewable energy application has drawn a lot of attention worldwide. Utilization of photovoltaic energy for public open-water activity becomes possible, thanks to the success of the Planet Solar project. However, an economic solution to deploy the PV power system onto an electric boat has not been reported. This paper presents a solar-powered boat design using the latest patented distributed PV power system which includes the state-of-the-art maximum power point tracking technology, power optimizer and the PV power controller. Distributed PV system with more than 10 PV panels using cascaded MPPT controller provides the flexibility of system design and the effective use of photovoltaic energy. The system has been realized by remodeling a PV boat cruising at Love River, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Design details will be reported, and its efficiency will also be addressed.
AB - Due to the shortage for fossil fuel and the environmental pollution problem, renewable energy application has drawn a lot of attention worldwide. Utilization of photovoltaic energy for public open-water activity becomes possible, thanks to the success of the Planet Solar project. However, an economic solution to deploy the PV power system onto an electric boat has not been reported. This paper presents a solar-powered boat design using the latest patented distributed PV power system which includes the state-of-the-art maximum power point tracking technology, power optimizer and the PV power controller. Distributed PV system with more than 10 PV panels using cascaded MPPT controller provides the flexibility of system design and the effective use of photovoltaic energy. The system has been realized by remodeling a PV boat cruising at Love River, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Design details will be reported, and its efficiency will also be addressed.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICASI.2018.8394259
DO - 10.1109/ICASI.2018.8394259
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049624633
T3 - Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation 2018, ICASI 2018
SP - 31
EP - 34
BT - Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation 2018, ICASI 2018
A2 - Lam, Artde Donald Kin-Tak
A2 - Prior, Stephen D.
A2 - Meen, Teen-Hang
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation, ICASI 2018
Y2 - 13 April 2018 through 17 April 2018
ER -