Link Building PV project

By:

Culver Matt

Labaume Natasha

Narnio Guillaume

Roux Arnaud

Stanton Andrew

Thompson Matt

Troyano Joana

ENS 4300-5300Renewable Energy

Energy and the Link Building

By: Andrew Stanton Natasha Labaume

Link Building

3 stories About 456 lights Approximately 54 computers Air conditioning set at 72-74oF

Energy Draw

Copy machine on from 8 to 5=190w Copy machine copying=900w Lights are 40w and 32w Computers in 1st floor lab: monitors draw 55w,

and the CPU draw 42w New computers draw: 87-107w with monitor New monitors draw 3w FPL charges $0.08/kwh Difference between old and new monitors is

52w

Solution 1

Shutdown all computers at night and on weekends– this would save the school about $1000/year

Solution 2

The second and better solution would be for the computers that have old monitors to be replaced by new ones.– This would increase the savings to $2800/year– Buying 20 new monitors would cost about $6000,

payback time would be just under 2.5 years

Solar energy resource and weather:

By:

Guillaume Narnio

Matt Thompson

Resources

Data from FSEC Office Building Downloadable Database

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Five Years of Data Saved as Text File Imported into Microsoft Excel©

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Average of 5 years of Average Total Normal Radiation from FSEC Office Building

*in w/m^2Avg. Total Norm. Rad.

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Average:01-janv 317,36 324,12 305,14 245,76 238,87 286,2501-févr 203,31 280,24 277,78 280,67 246,61 257,722

01-mars 282,01 304,97 347,12 283,33 283,88 300,26201-avr 357,94 361,03 327,17 265,5 335,03 329,334

01-mai 363,62 374,03 393,89 364,36 340,3 367,2401-juin 351,15 390,74 354,79 368,96 366,4101-juil 279,11 341,99 319,68 233,71 293,6225

01-août 349,23 305,76 283,63 149,78 272,101-sept 265,31 316,7 324,29 295,9 258,82 292,20401-oct 219,84 236,24 277,7 223,77 276,75 246,8601-nov 286,24 253,02 298,42 240,65 299,1 275,48601-déc 261,73 287,35 288,13 239,03 278,99 271,046

Note: All averages represent 10, 6-minute averages for each hour, Average: 296,544708324 hourly averages for each day, averaged over number of days for corresponding month.

Trends

Melbourne, Florida has approximately 5.4 hours of usable sunlight per day– Number greatest in April, May, June– Number lowest in November, December, January

Average daily total normal radiation is approximately 296.5 w/m2

– Number highest in April, May, June– Number lowest in November, December, January– Note: Average is over 24 hours a day, for 365 days

Solar System efficiency

The efficiency of a solar panel depends on two majors factors:

The temperature of the air The solar intensity available and minutes of

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Proposed solar system

By Arnaud Roux

Characteristics

3KW array 12 or 24v Dc converted to 110v AC Grid inter-connected Battery storage – optional Data logging capacity

Costs

Generally $8 to $10 per watt installed Rebate of $5 per watt installed Generate electricity that can sold back to FPL

net-metering $0.08 per watt

Maintenance

Funding and financing

By Matt Culver

Funding: Options Explored

Florida Solar Energy Center

FIT Foundation Relations

Internet

Funding Possibilities

Florida Solar Energy Center

FIT Foundation Relations Heineman Foundation Darden Restaurants Target Stores The Rayonier Foundation

INTERNET U.S. Department of Energy Department of Housing and

Urban Development Florida Community

Development Organization Florida Energy Office Florida Power and Light Database for State Incentives

for Renewable Energy others

Funding: Conclusions

Prioritize Funding

Start Early (application periods can be long)

Schedule Project Accordingly

Educational goal

By Joana Troyano

Education and Renewable Energy

The rapidly growing Renewable Energy industry (i.e. Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, etc.) is creating a shortage of appropriately trained engineers.

International studies predict the creation of more than a million jobs in the PV industry alone by 2020.

Florida Tech is now getting involved with the creation of a Renewable Energy and Meteorological Field Station.

Why should it be implemented?

It would be an important step in bringing the school closer to the increasingly important alternative energy sources such as solar and wind.

It will increase international interest on Florida Tech as a technological institute that provides research facilities on Renewable Energy for student and faculty.

It will take advantage of the potential of Florida solar radiation as a RE source.

Benefits

Because of climate and topography, solar energy is a viable source of RE energy in Florida.

Taking advantage of this fact, it would be important to play a role in the increasing RE industry.

In the future, the school could increase the size of the field station and widen its cooperation with companies in the sector.

Conclusions

Short term savings aspects are more appropriate for the Link Building

Long term benefits:

- Educational tool

- Valuable asset

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