Boon-Han Lim
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Seminar Information
Engineering Building Unit 2 (EBU2)
Room 479 (4th Floor, through hallway door)
Seminar Recording Available: Please contact seminar coordinator, Jake Blair at (j1blair@ucsd.edu)
The performance of solar photovoltaic systems relies on the local meteorological conditions and the design techniques. The adoption of photovoltaic (PV) as one of the renewable sources of electricity generation has been booming in tropical regions, particularly in South East Asia. However, there are a lot of techniques for the design and performance assessment of PV systems that need to be tailored to improve the performance of PV systems for this region that has a specific climate. Examples of differences in tropical climate that will impact the PV system performance are frequent passing clouds, low terrestrial wind speed, high ambient temperature, high humidity and high sun trajectory. In this seminar, the speaker will show several techniques that have been developed so far.
Boon Han Lim is an Associate Professor at Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. He is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has 25 years of experience in solar energy research, both in industry and academics. Currently, his research focuses on improving the techniques for performance assessment and design of photovoltaic systems in tropical climates. He represents Malaysia to TC 82 WG3 of IEC’s standard working group committee for photovoltaic systems. He was awarded membership of the Global Young Academy (GYA) in 2015, the Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI in 2023 and a Fulbright Malaysian Scholarship in 2024.