{"title":"Reliability improvement of photo voltaic power conversion systems by an optimal remote-management controller","authors":"C. Cavallaro, A. Raciti, A. Torrisi, G. Chimento","doi":"10.1109/ICCDCS.2002.1004101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"High reliability is expected today from photo voltaic (PV) systems since they are devoted to specific applications where the power grid is not available, or the cost of the energy produced by diesel power station is high due to the transportation cost of the fuel. As for any complicated equipment, a scheduled maintenance can improve the reliability. In this paper it is shown how a monitored power plant can increase its reliability by reducing the complexity of the transmission system as well as by managing the power plant components from a remote control location. A physical scaled simulator has been realized and several tests have been performed. An actual power plant located in a small island in the Mediterranean Sea is also discussed as a case study.","PeriodicalId":416680,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Caracas Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems (Cat. No.02TH8611)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Caracas Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems (Cat. No.02TH8611)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDCS.2002.1004101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
High reliability is expected today from photo voltaic (PV) systems since they are devoted to specific applications where the power grid is not available, or the cost of the energy produced by diesel power station is high due to the transportation cost of the fuel. As for any complicated equipment, a scheduled maintenance can improve the reliability. In this paper it is shown how a monitored power plant can increase its reliability by reducing the complexity of the transmission system as well as by managing the power plant components from a remote control location. A physical scaled simulator has been realized and several tests have been performed. An actual power plant located in a small island in the Mediterranean Sea is also discussed as a case study.