TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrated modeling and feasibility analysis of a rooftop photovoltaic systems for an academic building in Bangladesh
AU - Podder, Amit Kumer
AU - Das, Anik Kumar
AU - Hossain, Eklas
AU - Kumar, Nallapaneni Manoj
AU - Roy, Naruttam Kumar
AU - Alhelou, Hassan Haes
AU - Karthick, Alagar
AU - Al-Hinai, Amer
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of H.H. Alhelou and Amer Al-Hinai were supported by his majesty (HM) Fund and Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) under Grant SR/ENG/ECED/17/1
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press.
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - This paper presents integrated modeling and feasibility analysis of a rooftop photovoltaic system (RPS) for an academic building in Bangladesh. The average daily load is 353.63 kWh/day, and the peak load demand for the studied region is 90.85 kW. Four different configurations of 46 kW, 64 kW, 91 kW and 238 kW photovoltaic (PV) systems are designed and compared based on the financial, sensitivity and environmental benefit analysis to find out the most optimized one. The total net present cost, cost of energy, internal rate of return and payback period for the 91 kW (most optimized) system are found to be $146 317, $0.0385, 120.3% and 8.3 years, respectively. Seven sensitivity variables are utilized to investigate the system's performance due to the variation of input variables, ensuring that the optimized system is less vulnerable than others. Besides, the proposed RPS (91 kW) for the selected region reduces the CO2 emanation by 90 010 kg/year and has a negligible shading effect compared to the amount of electricity generation from it.
AB - This paper presents integrated modeling and feasibility analysis of a rooftop photovoltaic system (RPS) for an academic building in Bangladesh. The average daily load is 353.63 kWh/day, and the peak load demand for the studied region is 90.85 kW. Four different configurations of 46 kW, 64 kW, 91 kW and 238 kW photovoltaic (PV) systems are designed and compared based on the financial, sensitivity and environmental benefit analysis to find out the most optimized one. The total net present cost, cost of energy, internal rate of return and payback period for the 91 kW (most optimized) system are found to be $146 317, $0.0385, 120.3% and 8.3 years, respectively. Seven sensitivity variables are utilized to investigate the system's performance due to the variation of input variables, ensuring that the optimized system is less vulnerable than others. Besides, the proposed RPS (91 kW) for the selected region reduces the CO2 emanation by 90 010 kg/year and has a negligible shading effect compared to the amount of electricity generation from it.
KW - Academic building
KW - Bangladesh
KW - Feasibility study
KW - Integrated modelling
KW - Rooftop solar PV system
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U2 - 10.1093/ijlct/ctab056
DO - 10.1093/ijlct/ctab056
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114817794
SN - 1748-1317
VL - 16
SP - 1317
EP - 1327
JO - International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies
JF - International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies
IS - 4
ER -