Site Suitability Assessment for Installing Photovoltaic Systems using Fisheye-lens Camera and SOLPOS Calculator

Jinyoung Song; Yosoon Choi; Young-Wook Cheong; Gil-Jae Yim; Hyn-Sung Park

doi:10.12972/ksmer.2013.50.6.789

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Site Suitability Assessment for Installing Photovoltaic Systems using Fisheye-lens Camera and SOLPOS Calculator 어안 렌즈 카메라와 SOLPOS 계산기를 이용한 태양광 발전 시스템 부지 적합성 평가

31 December 2013. pp. 789-798

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Abstract

This study performed a site suitability assessment for installing photovoltaic (PV) systems at the Samma-taejung mine water treatment facility. A fisheye-lens camera (Solmetric’s SunEye210) and the SOLPOS calculator developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA were used to quantitatively evaluate the suitability of four candidate points for PV installations. Three indices including SA (Solar Access), TOF (Tilt and Orientation Factor) and TSRF (Total Solar Resource Fraction) were calculated at the four candidate points (Points 1-4). As a result, we could know that Point 2 has higher TSRF (81%) than other three candidate points. Although Point 3 has the highest SA, its TSRF is lower than that of Point 1 due to terrain gradient. Therefore, it is recommended that Point 2 is the most suitable location to install PV systems in the study area.

Keywords

Photovoltaic systems

Site suitability assessment

Mine water treatment

Fisheye-lens

본 연구에서는 삼마태정 광산배수 자연정화시설을 대상으로 태양광 발전 시스템 부지 적합성 평가를 수행하였다. 태양광 발전 시스템 설치 후보지의 적합성을 정량적으로 평가하기 위해 미국 Solmetric에서 개발한 어안 렌즈 카메라(SunEye210)를 사용하여 SA(Solar Access) 지수를 산정하였고, 미국 신재생에너지연구소에서 개발한 SOLPOS 계산기를 사용하여 TOF(Tilt and Orientation Factor)를 산정하였다. 또한, SA와 TOF를 이용하여 TSRF(Total Solar Resource Fraction)를 계산하였다. 연구지역에서 4개의 후보지점을 선정하여 분석을 수행한 결과 2번 후보지점이 TSRF가 81%로 가장 높게 산정되었다. 3번 후보지점은 SA는 높았으나 정남향 설치가 어려운 지형조건으로 인해 TSRF는 상대적으로 낮았다. 따라서 연구지역에서는 2번 후보지점에 태양광 발전 시스템을 설치하는 것이 가장 적합한 것으로 판단된다.

키워드

태양광 발전 시스템

부지 적합성 평가

광산배수처리

어안 렌즈

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Publisher :The Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers
Publisher(Ko) :한국자원공학회
Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers
Journal Title(Ko) :한국자원공학회지
Volume : 50
No :6
Pages :789-798
Received Date : 2013-10-04
Revised Date : 2013-11-08
Accepted Date : 2013-12-12
DOI :https://doi.org/10.12972/ksmer.2013.50.6.789

Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources EngineersISSN:2288-0291(Print) 2288-2790(Online)한국자원공학회

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