A NUMERICAL MODEL FOR PREDICTING PERFORMANCE OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC, BIOMASS AND CHP HYBRID SYSTEM FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION

This paper presents a numerical model to simulate and predict the total power generated by a hybrid system composed of solar photovoltaic PV, and biomass - CHP integrated Combined Heat and Power. A numerical model based upon the energy conversion equations describing the aforementioned hybrid system was developed, coded and the results were ana lyzed and compared to experimental data. The predicted results of the model compared fairly with the experimental data under various conditions.