Method for designing a physical layout of a photovoltaic system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9465908-B2
Application number	US-201214360638-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 6, 2012
Priority date	Nov 29, 2011
Publication date	Oct 11, 2016
Grant date	Oct 11, 2016

Abstract

A method for creating a physical layout of a photovoltaic system in a specified field is provided where the photovoltaic system is specified by a plurality of technical properties. The method includes reading out more than 20 pre-calculated, completed layouts for the photovoltaic system from a memory; presenting the completed layouts in a graphical presentation wherein each of the completed layouts is represented by at least one partial amount of the plurality of technical properties; modifying value ranges of the presented technical properties, in order to present a modified number of completed layouts in a comparable manner; and selecting an optimized layout that has been optimized with regard to the presented properties from the modified number of completed layouts. Thereby a photovoltaic system having a high nominal power can be established in the best possible manner. The physical layout of the entire photovoltaic system is adapted to the specified field.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for creating a physical layout of a photovoltaic system in a specified area, wherein the photovoltaic system is specified by a multiplicity of technical properties, the method comprising:
reading out a plurality of pre-calculated completed layouts for the photovoltaic system from a memory;
presenting the completed layouts in a graphical presentation in such a way that each of the completed layouts is represented by at least a partial number of the multiplicity of technical properties, the multiplicity of technical properties includes an angle of inclination supplemented with a shade angle;
modifying value ranges of the presented technical properties in order to present a modified number of completed layouts comparatively; and
selecting from the modified number of completed layouts a layout optimized with regard to the presented properties
wherein the completed layouts with the partial number of the multiplicity of technical properties are presented such that a number of technical property scales are formed in a scale region of the graphical presentation, wherein the same technical property of the completed layouts is plotted on each technical property scale, and
wherein each presented completed layout is represented in a coordinate region of the graphical presentation by a marking and is localized in the coordinate region of the graphical presentation via at least two of the technical properties.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the multiplicity of technical properties comprises at least:
one first multiplicity (N 100 ) of solar panels (T n ; n=1 . . . N) arranged side by side and/or one behind the other, in each case with a surface carrying solar cells that generate electrical direct current;
one second multiplicity (M) of DC-AC converters (I m ; m=1 . . . M), to which the direct current generated by the solar panels (T n ) is fed via cable, and
at least one transformer station (W), to which a high-voltage AC voltage is fed from the DC-AC converters (I m ) via lines.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each DC-AC converter is assigned to just one solar panel (T1).

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the second multiplicity is less than 50% of the first multiplicity.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the second multiplicity is less than 10% of the first multiplicity.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the multiplicity of technical properties comprises:
an arrangement of all solar panels (T n ) in the specified area;
a placement of the DC-AC converters (I m );
track guides of cables and lines; and
a position of the at least one transformer station (W).

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the multiplicity of technical properties comprises:
groups of solar panels, wherein each group of solar panels is assigned to a DC-AC converter.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein no more than one group (G 1 ; G 2 ) of the first multiplicity (N 100 ) of solar panels (T n ) is assigned to each DC-AC converter.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the second multiplicity (M) of DC-AC converters (I m ) is smaller than the first multiplicity (N 100 ) of solar panels (T n );
each DC-AC converter (I m ) is fed, via cable, electrical direct current generated by its assigned group (G m ; m=1 . . . M) of solar panels (T n ), wherein each group of solar panels (T n ) contains no more than half of the first multiplicity of solar panels (T n ) and/or a nominal power (P m ) of a respective group (G m ) of solar panels (T n ) corresponds to at least half of a nominal power of the DC-AC converter (I m ) assigned to the group (G m ); and
the at least one transformer station (W) is fed, via lines, the high-voltage AC voltage of at least one first group of DC-AC converters (I m ).

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the photovoltaic system has a nominal power above 2 MW.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a limit can be set at one end or both ends at least on one technical property scale so as to highlight by a marking in the coordinate region only the completed layouts of which the technical property value on the limited property scale lies within the set limits.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein two technical property scales can be adjusted jointly at one end or both ends by a respective delimitation.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the delimitation at one end or both ends is canceled so as to again present uniformly the plurality of completed layouts in the coordinate region.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein two completed layouts of different types are represented in the coordinate region by a different marking respectively and are localized via at least two of the technical properties, each along a coordinate axis, so as to be able to compare the two types of completed layouts via the two technical properties on the coordinate axes.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14 , wherein one fundamental type has a more robust arrangement of the panels (T n ), less susceptible to construction faults, and the other type has an irregular arrangement of the panels (T n ), more sensitive to construction faults.

Assignees

• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Bischoff Martin
• Hennig Oliver
• Kufer Karl-Heinz
• Plociennik Kai
• Schule Ingmar
• Weber Jens

Classifications

• G06F30/00

  Computer-aided design [CAD] · CPC title

• Y02E10/50

  Photovoltaic [PV] energy · CPC title

• H02S20/10

  Supporting structures directly fixed to the ground (H02S20/30 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02S10/00

  PV power plants; Combinations of PV energy systems with other systems for the generation of electric power · CPC title

• G06F30/13

  Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads · CPC title