Week 2

ACTIVITY

The task is to find the hardware and equipment for the project. After short listed the items, the component and tools are being located at Jalan Pasar shop. Some material need to get at hardware shop for example wire for the lamp.

OBJECTIVE

• Check and get related tools for the FYP project
• For the component and tools can get at the Jalan Pasar shop. 
• Some material need to get at hardware shop for example wire for the lamp.
• Planning the progress of this project carefully to get best product and result
• The FYP progress should contains the step below:
•   Idea and project the title.
•   Project preparation.
•  Concept development and testing.
• Project development and testing.
• Final preparation.
• At the end of next week the equipment and tools have been buy and all the raw materials related to this project also have classified.

Week 1

Activity
-We are asked to attend a Final Year Project (FYP) briefing at TTL2. The meeting is done to let the students know about the new agenda in FYPII. All the needs to complete the FYP is being brief in this meeting. On this week also, the component that will be used is being listed. The main component is the photovoltaic and the thermoelectric modules.

Conclusion

            By the end of the research study, the researcher will be able to produce a new development of photovoltaic-thermoelectric solar simulator. The researcher also will be able to understand the overall configuration off every device and instrument used. This project will provide an alternative way and efficient method in testing the solar panel by replacing the real sunlight with an artificial sunlight which come from the xenon lamp. This project will use the PV-TE hybrid system and the performance result produces will be observed to see the different on the electrical properties.

            Other than that, this project setup would have beneficial effect of permitting much less expensive installation for testing and development. Hence the test procedure can be used by manufacturers for testing of different type of PV tiles and combination of PV tiles in order to optimize its products for better efficiency.

Budget

Workplan

Benefit

The benefit of this project is:

• §  To provide an alternative way and efficient method in testing the solar panel by replacing the real sunlight with an artificial one.
• §  To provide a controllable indoor test facility under laboratory conditions.

Objectives

• To develop a hardware of PV-TE portable  solar simulator
• To evaluate the performance of the PV-TE  using LabVIEW software
• To see the different on efficiency of the PV panel and the PV-TE panel.