University Engineering Project: Design and Analysis of PV Solar System

This engineering project focuses on the design of a PV solar system, emphasizing sustainable engineering practices. The project begins with an introduction to the importance of sustainable energy and the role of engineers in such projects. The student outlines the project's objectives, which include d...Read More

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Managing an engineering project focusing on Sustainable
Engineering
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
About the project.............................................................................................................................2
Project planning and scheduling..................................................................................................3
Feasibility study for the project...................................................................................................6
Ethical considerations related to project......................................................................................7
Outcomes of the project...............................................................................................................8
Method for the purpose of monitoring the project.......................................................................9
Analysis of the designing PV solar system..................................................................................9
CAD diagrams for solar PV system...............................................................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................12
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The aim of this engineering project is to determine the professional engineer’s role in
sustainable engineering projects. In order to determine the role of engineers it becomes essential
to identify select a project. As a professional engineer it is important to offer develop a project
that will be able to maintain proper sustainability. The project that is going to be carried out in
this assessment is the Design of PV solar system. There is a huge need to use resources in a way
that it can be beneficial for the human. Sustainable engineering is referred to the process of
operating a system that uses energy and resources in a sustainable manner. This means that the
project needs to be implemented in a way that it does not compromise with the environment and
uses the resources based on the needs. The assessment will focus on analysing the functions that
are associated with engineering and the impacts that are created on the project. It is important to
develop project after analysing the sustainability factors.
The project is about the designing of PV solar system. Solar photovoltaic system is one of
the renewable energy systems that focus on converting the sunlight into electricity. It has been
observed that solar PV system is one of the most reliable and clean source for generating
electricity. With the help of PV solar system it will become easy to manage the project.
About the project
The aim of the project is to design a PV solar system that will help in converting the light
into electricity. Thus it is one of the necessary sustainable resources that are needed to be
considered for the purpose of enhancing the performance. Electricity has become one of the
major needs and hence it becomes essential to have sustainable resources that will ensure that the

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resource is being generated effectively. In the designing of photovoltaic system solar modules
are being used. These are used for the purpose of generating solar energies. This contains huge
number of solar cells that helps in generating electrical power. There are specific advantages that
are offered with solar PV that includes less pollution and no greenhouse gas emission. This
improves the scalability and ensures that electricity can be generated efficiently. The main reason
is to meet the needs of the current situation. Electricity has become one of the major needs so it
is essential to generate enough electricity that will ensure better performance.
Project planning and scheduling
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Designing PV solar
system
140
days
Mon
7/15/19
Fri
1/24/20
Phase 1: Initiation 29 days
Mon
7/15/19
Thu
8/22/19
Undertaking
feasibility study
10 days
Mon
7/15/19
Fri
7/26/19
identifying the
scope
6 days
Mon
7/29/19
Mon
8/5/19
listing major
stakeholders
5 days
Tue
8/6/19
Mon
8/12/19
developing
suitable business requirement
4 days
Tue
8/13/19
Fri
8/16/19
Implementing 4 days Mon Thu

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proper design 8/19/19 8/22/19
Phase 2: Planning
111
days
Fri
8/23/19
Fri
1/24/20
Creating a plan 3 days
Fri
8/23/19
Tue
8/27/19
Addressing the
engineering problems
4 days
Wed
8/28/19
Mon
9/2/19
analyzing the
process
6 days
Tue
9/3/19
Tue
9/10/19
creating an
effective quality plan
4 days
Wed
9/11/19
Mon
9/16/19
creating risk plan 5 days
Tue
9/17/19
Mon
9/23/19
Allocating tasks to
team members
4 days
Tue
9/24/19
Fri
9/27/19
creating
procurement plan
5 days
Mon
9/30/19
Fri
10/4/19
Phase 3:
Designing
29 days
Mon
10/7/19
Thu
11/14/19
addressing the
requirement
5 days
Mon
10/7/19
Fri
10/11/19

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designing the
system
8 days
Mon
10/14/19
Wed
10/23/19
allocating
resources
9 days
Thu
10/24/19
Tue
11/5/19
conducting
feasibility study
7 days
Wed
11/6/19
Thu
11/14/19
Phase 4:
Execution
37 days
Fri
11/15/19
Mon
1/6/20
developing task
and managing workflows
8 days
Fri
11/15/19
Tue
11/26/19
allocating tasks 9 days
Wed
11/27/19
Mon
12/9/19
communicating
with members
7 days
Tue
12/10/19
Wed
12/18/19
monitoring the
work quality
9 days
Thu
12/19/19
Tue
12/31/19
budgeting 4 days
Wed
1/1/20
Mon
1/6/20
phase 5: Closure 14 days
Tue
1/7/20
Fri
1/24/20
Analysis of the
project performance
3 days
Tue
1/7/20
Thu
1/9/20
analysis of team 2 days Fri Mon

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performance 1/10/20 1/13/20
documenting
project
3 days
Tue
1/14/20
Thu
1/16/20
conducting post
implementation review
4 days
Fri
1/17/20
Wed
1/22/20
signing off 2 days
Thu
1/23/20
Fri
1/24/20
The above developed is a schedule that helps in executing the project effectively within a
fixed time period. While designing a PV solar system it is essential to ensure that each
component is addressed effectively. The main reason behind implementing PV solar system is to
generate enough electricity without harming the environment or by impacting any other
resources. The sustainability concept states that there is a need to manage the resources without
impacting the future needs.
Feasibility study for the project
Feasibility study is referred to the initial design of the project that ensures that all knowledge
of the project is being gathered together. The project that is being selected for the assessment is
designing the PV solar system. The main aim behind designing PV solar system is that it ensures
an effective way of generating electricity with the help of solar power. The major steps that are
associated with conducting a feasibility study are described below:
 Conducting preliminary analysis regarding the engineering problem so that it can benefit
the engineers

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 Preparing a projected income statement that will help in providing better solution towards
the project development process
 Market survey and research on the need of the PV system
 Planning and designing the operations that are going to be performed by the newly
designed PV solar system
 Preparing an opening day balance sheet
 Reviewing and analysing all the data that are collected from the analysis
Ethical considerations related to project
While conducting a project it becomes essential to ensure that the designed project is
being conducted ethically and legally so that it does not impact anyone else. The design of PV
solar system will ensure that they are being able to provide better services towards the people.
The development of this project is in order to maintain a proper support throughout the process.
Development of a project needs to include ethical considerations so that it can facilitate
accurate results. In order to have a proper control over the decision making process and to ensure
better technical aspects it becomes essential to have proper results along with implications.
However in order to have a proper control over the project it becomes essential to organize the
components efficiently. This will ensure that the project has been executed successfully. With
the help of effective decision making process it becomes easy to get better advantages in the
market. Ethics deal with different approaches, principle and sources and hence it becomes
essential to ensure that the implemented design is able to provide remarkable benefits.

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Outcomes of the project
The main aim behind developing a PV solar system is that it will help in managing the
electricity problem that is faced by the people. This is considered as one of the biggest
challenges by engineer as without electricity it becomes difficult to conduct any activity. Solar
energy generation is the fastest growing renewable energy resources that help in producing
electricity that can be used for conducting day to day activities. Thus with the designing of PV
solar system it will become easy and convenient way to generate electricity. Due to excessive
need of electricity it has been observed that the fossil fuels getting exhausted. This has lead to
serious environmental concerns and hence it becomes essential to implement proper measures
that will lead to generation of proper electricity. Solar power is referred to the renewable
resource that focuses on converting the sun radiation into the electricity through the use of
photovoltaic cells.
The conversion takes place within the solar cell through the help of photovoltaic effect.
The major reasons behind choosing PV solar system for overcoming the challenge faced with
generating electricity are as follows:
 Solar energy is available free of cost and is the most convenient way of generating
electricity.
 Solar generation plants are easily installed in every month and can generate electricity
efficiently.
 Solar power includes less running cost and this means once the resources are invested in
designing PV solar system than it can be used for generations.
 Solar power does not emit toxic substances and hence it does not cause any damage
towards the environment.

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With the development of this project is becomes easy to manage the activities. The project is
about the designing of PV solar system. Solar photovoltaic system is one of the renewable
energy systems that focus on converting the sunlight into electricity. It has been observed that
solar PV system is one of the most reliable and clean source for generating electricity. With the
help of PV solar system it will become easy to manage the project.
Method for the purpose of monitoring the project
While carrying out a project it becomes crucial to have effective steps that ensure the
project is being monitored successfully. There are several steps that ensure that the project is
being carried out successfully. The steps are described below:
 There is a need take effective actions that will be beneficial for controlling the
project
 Each step needs to be monitored successfully so that it can ensure better
performance
 The resources needs to be identified at early stage so that it can have better
control over the resources
 Influencing factors that are needed to be implemented within the organization so
that it can ensure better performances
Analysis of the designing PV solar system
The solar PV system is being designed in such a way that it will use solar panels for the
purpose of absorbing the energy. Once the energy is being absorbed they are converted into the
electrical energy. This ensures that the renewable resources are being used for the purpose of
performing thee regular activities. However solar PV system can be stated as one of major source
of producing electric energy with the help of photovoltaic cells. The main reason behind using

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solar energy is that is one of the most reliable renewable resources that helps in the growth and
can be obtained at any point of time.
After analysing the benefits that are offered with the use of solar energy it is observed
that the PV solar system is basically a collection of structurally engineered solar panel that are
used for the purpose of deriving energy resources. Generation of electricity has become one of
the major concerns as with the help of proper resources it will become easy to perform the day to
day activities.
It has been observed that with the use of renewable energy resources it becomes easy to
replace the needs of non renewable resources. This also leads to decrease in environmental
pollution and thus it can be stated that with the use of renewable energy resources it becomes
easy to manage the excessive emission of greenhouse gas. Apart from this the solar PV system
has the potential to can store extreme amount of electricity that can be used at the time of
consumption.
While implementing the PV cell it has been observed that there is a high chance that it
may impact the system. The different layers that are associated with the system include
transparent layer, optical layer, and base layer. It becomes essential to have proper control over
the system at the time of project execution so that it can be implemented successfully with
minimum errors. However, before implementing this project detail research is carried out along
with proper analysis that will help in future findings. The main focus of the project is to promote
sustainable thinking and the idea of sharing and preserving that will help in improving the
situation of the environment. The resources need to be analysed effectively so that they can
maintain a better response throughout the project execution phase.

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CAD diagrams for solar PV system
Conclusion
After analysing the concept of solar PV system it can be stated that with the help of
designing PV system it will become easy to improve the performance in future. The project will
help in using renewable resources for the purpose of saving the non renewable resources. As an
engineer it becomes essential to implement proper measures that will be able to produce more
energy for the purpose of meeting the needs of the future generation. The concept of
sustainability has been described in the assessment. The main aim to develop a solar PV system
is to ensure that huge amount of electricity is being developed without compromising with the
resources. It has been identified the solar system design does not need much maintenance or cost.

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Thus it can be stated that with the development of PV solar system it becomes easy to generate
electricity that will be used in future purposes. The report has explained the main objective
behind choosing this project. Apart from this the report has also focused on developing project
plan that will help in implementing the solar PV system successfully. The report has outlined the
basic advantages that are being offered with solar the PV system. The main benefit that is being
obtained is that the pollution rate decreases. This improves the scalability and ensures that
electricity can be generated efficiently. Electricity has become one of the major needs so it is
essential to generate enough electricity that will ensure better performance. Thus with the
successful implementation of this project it can be stated that electricity generation will become
easy and will benefit the people.
Recommendations
The project needs to be executed efficiently so that it can become easy to provide better
performance throughout the development process. The ways in which project can be developed
effectively are described below:
 In order to improve the performance it becomes necessary to include proper control over
the communication process.
 The budget needs to be developed effectively so that it can ensure better performance
 While executing a project it is highly recommended to develop a team
 Before implementing the project it becomes essential to provide proper training that will
outline the major benefits.

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 The project needs to be carried out with proper resources and under proper engineer’s
guidance. The project will be carried out for improving the performance of electricity
supply.
 Technical trainings are needed to be carried out by the supervisors.
 There is no need to implement any extra maintenance for the Solar PV system.
 The materials that are needed for designing the PV system must be checked properly so
that it can offer better performance throughout the system.
 At the designing phase developer needs to have proper knowledge regarding the benefits
so that it can be implemented successfully.
 Apart from all this it is being highly recommended to explain the use of PV system
among the people so that the services can be obtained efficiently.
 Proper promotions of the newly designed PV solar system need to be done.

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