Machines. Technologies. Materials.
Vol. 13 (2019), Issue 12, pg(s) 522-531

MACHINES

DESIGN OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES CHARGING UNIT

  • 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Maan, Jordan

Abstract

In this paper, we design and simulate a 20 kW solar on grid power charging unit for electric vehicles at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University (AHU)/Maan-Jordan by using a Bluesol 3.0, Sketch Up 2018 software.
Two scenarios are considered; one where number of vehicles is five in the interval (8 am – 12 pm) & five vehicles in the interval (12 pm – 4 pm) and time of charge half of battery capacity four hours and the second scenarios where number of vehicles is eight in the interval (8 am – 12 pm) & eight vehicles in the interval (12 pm – 4 pm) and time of charge half of battery capacity four hours. We conclude that the system is efficient and very useful to the electric vehicles users in the university. In addition, the system is reducing the CO2 emissions annually from generating power by 28.4 tons of CO2.

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