쉐도잉 연습: How Does Electricity Flow Through a Utility-Scale Solar Site? - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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I wanted to take the time to make sure you all totally understood the concept of electrical flow through the PV plant.
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The following slides show one specific setup in regards to power conversion and electrical flow.
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So, firstly, sunlight strikes the PV modules.
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The sunlight is converted into electricity within the PV module.
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And as we know from previous slides, the electricity that's generated is DC electricity, direct current.
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Modules are wired together in strings.
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Remember that a string is just the technical name for a group of modules all wired together in series.
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This string of PV modules is basically collecting all the electrical current.
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And all of this collected up electricity is then transported via
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a home run of DC cabling to a combiner box as shown.
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So you now have the electricity from multiple strings all feeding into a single combiner box, where additional electrical protection such as fuses will be located.
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The combiner box is pretty much doing exactly what it says, combining or consolidating all this electricity.
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There's a few obvious benefits here.
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The DC feeders are higher gauge cables, so they'll have reduced electrical losses.
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And since each of them can carry more current, there's simply less of them, which makes for easier management and less terminations once we get to the inverter stage.
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The DC electricity then needs to be transported from the combiner box to the next key component in line, the inverters, shown here.
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This is achieved using what are commonly known as DC feeders.
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There's a number of ways to do this, either an underground trenching or above ground cable trays.
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Once the DC electricity has been transferred to the inverter, the inverter does its job, which is to convert this DC electricity into AC electricity.
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Remember that the key reason we need to do this is
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that the electricity on the utility grid is all high voltage AC and we have to match that.
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So now we have AC electricity which has been produced by the inverters
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and we need to transport this electricity to the next step in the chain which is the transformer.
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Now we're at the transformer level, and the transformer's job is to step the voltage of the AC electricity up.
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The reason for this is that as we should remember back from our power and voltage slides much earlier in the presentation, and our discussion around Ohm's law,
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resistance equals voltage divided by current.
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Now remember that power can be calculated by multiplying voltage by current,
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but Ohm's states that voltage can also be expressed by current multiplied by resistance.
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This means that you can calculate power by squaring your current and multiplying it by the resistance.
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Since the resistance of the cabling from the transformer to the interconnect won't change, as that's a function of the material that's being used,
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to minimize the power losses in the system we want to minimize the current as much as possible.
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The only way to do that, again going back the Ohm's law is to increase the voltage.
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So step the voltage up, reduce the current required and reduce the power losses in the system.
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We then need to transport this AC electricity from the location of the transformer out to the point of interconnect.
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This is done via AC cabling and is commonly done via underground trenching.
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The point of interconnect, or POI, is simply where the power plant ties into the utility grid.
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Now, once you're at the point of interconnect, depending on the size of the plant or the transmission lines you're tying into,
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there may be another transformer to step the voltage up again to match what's on the existing lines
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so you can go from 34.5 kV up to 69 kV
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or even higher
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and there you have it you've then got high voltage ac electricity onto the utility lines
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so what started as sunlight hitting an individual pv module
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which created low voltage dc electricity has gone through all these various steps
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and conversions through home runs combiner boxes dc feeders inverters transformers ac cabling
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and is then connected into the utility lines as high voltage ac
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| 단어 | 발음 | 뜻 |
|---|---|---|
| voltage 명사 | /ˈvəʊltɪd͡ʒ/ | 전압 |
| module 명사 | /ˈmɑd͡ʒul/ | 모듈 |
| string 명사 | /stɹɪŋ/ | 끈 |
| slide 명사 | /ˈslaɪ̯d/ | 미끄럼틀, 미끄럼대 |
| sunlight 명사 | /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/ | 햇빛, 일광 |
| wire 명사 | /ˈwaɪɚ/ | 철사 |
| collect 동사 | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | 수집하다 |
| underground 형용사 | /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ | 땅속, 땅굴 |
| grid 명사 | /ɡɹɪd/ | 격자, 그리드 |
| calculate 동사 | /ˈkælkjʊleɪt/ | 정산하다, 계산하다 |
| minimize 동사 | /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/ | 최소화(最小化)하다 |
| trench 명사 | /ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/ | 참호, 트렌치 |
| connect 동사 | /kəˈnɛkt/ | 잇다, 연결하다 |
| component 명사 | /kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/ | 부분 |
| presentation 명사 | /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/ | 증정 |
영상에 나오는 구동사
| 단어 | 뜻 |
|---|---|
| go back 동사 | 돌아가다 |
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화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
|---|---|
| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | is converted · are wired · will be located |
| 현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때 | have reduced · has been transferred · has been produced |
| 관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보 | them, which makes · job, which is · electricity which has |
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- “sh”와 “zh” 소리: conversion /kənˈvɝʒən/, transmission /tɹænsˈmɪʃən/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, termination /tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/
- 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, utility /juːˈtɪlɪti/, termination /tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/, interconnect /ˌɪn.tə.kəˈnɛkt/
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