Design and performance analysis of a hybrid Solar PV and biogas power plant using PLC

Abstract

This paper emphasis on hybridization of Solar PV and biogas power plant which is designed to run simultaneously with the help of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Bangladesh is affluent in almost all these resources especially in Biogas Energy and Solar Energy. Solar Panels along with biogas plant can be used to produce power in different areas of this country. The electrical energy can be extracted from solar energy directly by means of Photovoltaic cells. On the other hand biogas energy is first converted to heat energy through biogas engine and this heat energy in turn is used to drive a turbine to get the electrical energy. From the simulation result, which done in MATlab simulink Authors observed that the efficiency of proposed hybrid plant is higher in proposed hybrid Solar PV and biogas power plant rather than the summation the of efficiency of individual power plant. In the hybrid system energy has a higher reliability, can be cost effective.. The research work demonstrates how these schemes can be combined together to achieve the desired goal. It shows that how we can get continues power from a hybrid power plant, where the solar PV will run for eight (8) hours in a day and biogas plant will run for rest sixteen (16) hours.