Softwares for designing, simulating or providing diagnosis of photovoltaic water-pumping systems

C Tiba and E.M.de S Barbosa

Renewable Energy, 2002, vol. 25, issue 1, 101-113

Abstract: This paper identifies and evaluates software programs for designing, simulating and providing diagnosis of photovoltaic water-pumping systems available in the world market. The identified software programs were evaluated according to the following general criteria:C1summarizes their relative merits and their commercial availability, their updatedness (or whether they are updateable) and their user-friendliness;C2groups the software specific merits, its versatility and capacity to analyze multiple configurations of photovoltaic water-pumping systems and the completeness of the different parts of the system to be analyzed;C3groups the merits related to the database of parameters needed for running the software, in addition to the possibility of introducing new data;C4deals with the validation of the relevant software, using experimental data.Results for several commercial software programs analyzed according to these criteria are given.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(00)00172-5

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