Photovoltaic Water Pumping Systems

Tamer Khatib Tamer is a photovoltaic power system professional. He holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical power systems, an M.Sc. degree and a Ph.D degree in photovoltaic power systems. In addition, he holds Habilitation (the highest academic degree in German speaking countries) in Renewable and sustainable energy from Alpen Adria Universitat, Klagenfurt, Austria. Currently he is an Associate professor of renewable energy at An-Najah National University and the director of An-Najah Company for Consultancy and Technical Studies. He is also the chair of IEEE Palestine sub-section. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Power and Energy Society, The International Solar Energy society, Jordanian Engineers Association. His research interests mainly fall in the scope of photovoltaic systems and solar energy fundamentals. Dhiaa Halbot Muhsen Dhiaa holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical Engineering from University of Baghdad, as well as a M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Control Engineering from Baghdad University. In addition he holds a Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering from University of Tenaga National, Malaysia. Currently he is lecturer in Computer Engineering department, Al-Mustansiriyah University. Dhiaa has done his Ph.D under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Tamer Khatib. His current research interests include modeling of Photovoltaics, modeling of PVPS, sizing of PVPS, Evolutionary Algorithms (EA), and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) algorithms.

1. Introduction2. Photovoltaic water pumping systems concept3. Modeling of photovoltaic water pumping systems4. Intuitive and numerical sizing methods for photovoltaic water pumping systems5. Sizing of photovoltaic water pumping systems using evolutionary algorithms6. Sizing of photovoltaic water pumping systems multi-criteria decision making methods7. Sensitivity analysis of photovoltaic water pumping8. Power electronic features of photovoltaic water pumping systems