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Reis, F.R. (author), Rueda, José L. (author), Palensky, P. (author), Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco (author)This paper concerns with the determination of a suitable level of overplanting for photovoltaic systems. For this purpose, six futuristic operational scenarios for the Dutch electrical power system are generated for year 2050. A synthetic model is developed by using DIgSILENT Power Factory 2022 SP3 to investigate the steady-state systemic...conference paper 2023
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Crooijmans, Bastiaan (author)Climate agreement goals set by the Dutch government increase the urge to reduce our greenhouse gases. To fulfil these goals on a residential level a reduction of the emission of carbon which is produced during household demand and transportation (commute) is required. On a residential level, the amount of photovoltaic systems (PV) and electric...master thesis 2022
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Haak, Youri (author)The EU has set out to reduce negative impacts from electricity generation on the environment, human health and towards our dependence on fossil fuels. As the fastest growing renewable source of electricity, photovoltaics plays an important role in the energy transition. The manufacturing of photovoltaic modules requires materials classified as...master thesis 2022
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Wierikx, Thomas (author)Understanding the characteristics of photovoltaic system (PV) adopters can help policymakers realise energy transition more effectively. In this study, we developed a model that predicts PV adoption per building using geometric and socioeconomic variables. Seven geometric variables were created by processing building registration data, airborne...master thesis 2022
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Haghighi, Z. (author)Today, photovoltaic technology is one of the fastest-growing fields of technology and is becoming the lowest-cost option for electricity generation in the greatest part of the world. Based on IEA projection, the number of households relying on solar PV grows from today’s 25 million to more than 100 million by 2030. Based on this projection, we...doctoral thesis 2022
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Linck, Charlie (author)Vopak has the vision to become climate neutral by 2050 (Scope 1 and 2 emissions). Currently, over 99% of its CO2 emissions originate from storage terminal activities. Action must be taken to reduce these emissions by converting the current (fossil fuel-based) generation of electricity to sustainable energy.<br/><br/>This study aims to research...master thesis 2022
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Reinhard, Marko (author)To meet global market demands, it will remain important to further scale up photovoltaics (PV) production. During the production of solar cells, several defects can occur. Current approaches in quality inspection are reaching their speed limits. This thesis project evaluates the feasibility of faster quality inspection by using deep learning...master thesis 2022
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Giitsidis, Konstantinos (author)Trolleybuses are electric buses than run on electric power from overhead electric power lines (catenary) like trams do. Although is a service that dates all the way back to 1882, it has managed to regain interest in the recent years due to the constant electrification of various aspects of the world. This comes as a response towards...master thesis 2022
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Rukhshi, Nida (author)Photovoltaic technology has become one of the leading renewable alternatives for energy production. One main factor in the diminished performance of a photovoltaic module is partial shading, due to the resulting mismatch conditions in the module. However, it is difficult to understand how a specific PV module reacts to shading in comparison with...master thesis 2022
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Vishwanathreddy, Sujith V (author)People worldwide have begun to feel the effects of climate change in recent years with unpredictable weather patterns, heatwaves, changes in precipitation, and sea level rise. To help mitigate climate change, photovoltaics (PV) is seen as a technology with the tremendous capability to satisfy the world’s electricity demands by tapping into...master thesis 2022
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Xu, Xiaojing (author)Solar photovoltaics (PV), as one of the renewable energy technologies, has gradually penetrated power systems worldwide. Distributed solar photovoltaics (DSPV) systems characterised by reducing transmission line losses, increasing grid resilience and relaxing requirements for investment have experienced exponential growth over the last decade....master thesis 2022
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Monaco, Nicolò (author)The growing global energy demand and correlated rise in carbon emissions are increasing the need of renewable energy sources. This spread requires land to be occupied, competing with other activities such as agriculture and residency. This project can help the spread of photovoltaic (PV) technologies in an environment still little explored: the...master thesis 2022
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Meekes, Bauke (author)This work proposes an energy harvesting DC-DC converter that is able to efficiently process a wide input power range from 25 mW up to 250 mW, to charge a storage device used in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. An interleaved boost-converter topology with two inductors is used to divide the high currents over the two branches, in order to...master thesis 2022
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Stokvisch, Mathijs (author)Over the past few years, the number of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels that are being installed in Amsterdam has been growing considerably. The amount of PV panel installations averages an annual growth of 50%, which is stimulated by the city its ambition to leave no roof unused by 2040. However, little attention is paid to what should happen...master thesis 2022
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Blackstone, Thijs (author)A next step in the energy transition is to produce green fuels from sunlight. One way to achieve this is via high voltage photovoltaic (PV) devices which can directly drive electrolysis reactions to produce hydrogen or other chemical fuels. Group IV based multijunction (MJ) PV devices are a candidate to function as these high voltage devices.<br...master thesis 2022
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Hasamnis, Tushar (author)Photovoltaic (PV) materials are gaining rapid popularity for their use in commercial solar cell applications. Due to the growing need for high efficiency solar cells, new materials such as perovskites are being researched. While the conventional experimental methods are still used to test new PV materials, PV modelling is gaining importance as...master thesis 2022
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Daemen, Mieke (author)The main aim of the research presented in this report is investigating analytical methods to model fluid-structure interaction in large-scale offshore floating photovoltaics. The model that was attempted to be solved analytically is based on a model presented by Pengpeng Xu (2022).<br/>The dimensions in the equations were removed. Applying a...bachelor thesis 2022
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Voorn, Jim (author)With the integration of solar panels in urban areas, where shading is a common issue, it is desired to realize more shade-resilient designs. A DC-DC boost converter is an electronic device that can be used for maximum power point tracking (MPPT). When implementing MPPT at sub-module level, the shade resilience of the module can be increased....master thesis 2022
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de Mooy, Dion (author)In this thesis, a new photovoltaic fault detection and classification method is proposed. It combines the generation of a synthetic photovoltaic training database and the use of a machine learning model to detect and classify faults in small-scale residential PV systems. The database was generated in Matlab, and the machine learning modeling was...master thesis 2022
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Ahmed Bakrelsedik Mohamed Ahmed, Ahmed (author)Efficient utilization of energy generation techniques is gaining more prominence in the design and engineering of built structures. One of the most established techniques used is through solar energy-harnessing via photovoltaic technology. In this research, integrating photovoltaics is further explored in the textile architecture domain to...master thesis 2022