System and methods for solar photovoltaic array engineering
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Solution Overview
Problem
The solar photovoltaic power plant design industry lacks detailed, automated, and flexible tools to evaluate the complexity of inputs and outputs, leading to inefficient optimization of system designs due to numerous variables and constraints, resulting in standardization and overlooked effective solutions.
Innovation Solution
An automated site engineering design system that uses a user interface, databases, objective functions, and component definition to optimize solar array design, generating detailed specifications for implementation, including layout and component placement, while considering various constraints and goals such as maximum internal rate of return and minimum costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual design optimization methods are used for solar PV arrays, then design flexibility can be maintained, but the evaluation of multiple variables and constraints becomes inefficient and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical design evaluation with an automated computer-based system that uses algorithms to evaluate multiple design variables and constraints simultaneously, dramatically improving design evaluation efficiency while managing complexity through software automation
Solution Approach 2:
The design system performs self-evaluation by automatically assessing multiple design variables, constraints, and optimization criteria without requiring manual intervention for each evaluation iteration, enabling efficient exploration of design space
2Ease of manufacture
If standardized design approaches are used for solar PV power plants, then implementation simplicity is improved, but effective customized solutions are overlooked
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic design system that can adapt to different project requirements by allowing customization of design variables, constraints, and optimization criteria, enabling both standardized and customized designs within a single flexible framework
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables parameter changes by allowing users to modify design variables, constraints, and optimization objectives to suit specific project needs, transforming a static standardized approach into a versatile customized solution generator
3Measurement precision
If detailed automated design tools are implemented for solar PV arrays, then design optimization accuracy is improved, but system complexity and development costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex design optimization task into manageable components including design variables, constraints, and objective functions, allowing the system to handle complexity through structured modular evaluation while maintaining high optimization accuracy
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AI summary
The present application concerns automated optimization, customization or production methods for the design of a solar photovoltaic array, involving one or more or all components in a photovoltaic array, in which the products include system designs, production drawings, permitting and construction drawings, layouts for the mechanical and electrical systems, bill of materials and financial return analyses of such a photovoltaic array.