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SPE 422 Maintenance of Solar PV System

HND2 levelEngineering & Technology27 topics

SPE 422 covers 27 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Solar PV system components
  2. Types and functions of PV components
  3. Charging algorithms: PWM and MPPT
  4. Principles of operation of PV components
  5. Solar PV system configurations
  6. Maintenance concepts and types
  7. Preventive and corrective maintenance
  8. Dust, debris, electrical and mechanical integrity checks
  9. PV faults, failures and failure causes
  10. Shading effects and environmental degradation
  11. Maintenance record-keeping
  12. Operation, maintenance and monitoring of PV systems
  13. Performance indicators for PV system health
  14. Advanced monitoring devices and tools
  15. PV system components identification
  16. Energy flow in PV systems
  17. PV schematic interpretation
  18. PV system configuration
  19. Routine maintenance checks
  20. Cleaning and visual inspection
  21. System health assessment
  22. Fault identification
  23. Shading effects simulation
  24. Environmental degradation assessment
  25. Repairs and component replacement
  26. System troubleshooting
  27. Failure simulation and repair

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Solar PV system components

Solar PV system components are the building blocks that convert sunlight into usable electrical energy. Mastering the functions and interrelations of modules, inverters, batteries, charge controllers, and mounting systems is essential for designing, operating, and troubleshooting PV installations, which are heavily tested in Nigerian engineering exams.

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