Design, modelling, and planning of renewable energy integrated microgrid for rural electrification in Bangladesh

The Electric power crisis is one of the major problems in Bangladesh, the gap between demand and generation is increasing day by day. Moreover, most of the power plants are gas based which will be phased out in future. An alternate electric supply is an essential part for electrifying the developing countries, in this context an innovative approach of rural electrification including DC microgrid, mini-grid and nanogrid would be technically and economically feasible. The thesis draws also attention on the development of technology which enables community owned power system to emerge in the rural areas based on distributed SHS and demand of that community. Firstly, the electric status and renewable potential in Bangladesh are studied and considered those data into the software based simulation to analysis the technical feasibility to implement DC microgrid by Homer pro tools. The distributed RES (Renewable Energy sources) considered solar PV and biomass. The booming of a large number of individual SHS (Solar Home System) in Bangladesh, bottom-up energy sharing concept would have studied to configure the optimal design of microgrid system and different configuration including grid connected and DC and AC system studied. Secondly, The PV module is highly dependent on cell temperature and solar irradiance, the ambient temperature, and solar irradiance mathematical equation have been considered to model and simulate in MATLAB/SIMULINK based environment. Similarly charge controller, battery operation, and performance analysis with respect to the PV model. In the distributed energy sources are mainly SHS including large size and regular also model and simulate in MATLAB/SIMULINK software. For instance, the thesis mainly focuses on an optimal design, planning, sizing of DC hybrid microgrid, the SHS, and biomass-based power system with the goal of maximizing the efficiency and reliability. Homer Pro tool used in the work for design an optimal configuration and sizing for technical feasibility. Finally, a model of DC microgrid compresses with micro sources like SHS systems, µ-CHP, the household loads model in MATLAB/SIMULINK. Decentralized SHS control strategies (droop control) and operation also design and model in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment, where DC – DC converter needs to couple SHS and DC microgrid