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In PV system the alternative in night or sun set is battery then I asked about other alternative of using battery like special salts?

Battery is not good alternative as it increase pollution, expensive and need periodical maintenance more over it is limited capacity ,maintenance free battery is not recommended to use for open or desert area 

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Question added by mamdouh gaber A mohamed Mohamed , GENERAL MANAGER ENGINEERING , GTS
Date Posted: 2015/05/05
Safi Ullah
by Safi Ullah , Electrical Trainee Engineer , PESCO (Peshawar Electric Supply Company)

For PV system battery is the best. For other system like wind there is no such need of batteries as alternatives.

Francesco Miconi
by Francesco Miconi , Technical Manager , Ingegneria & Valore S.r.l.

I believe that a more advantageous system is the accumulation system with the electric machinery that works when needed by a generator and a motor. In combination with a PV plant in the daytime, I produce energy and the excess is used to pump water into a higher basin, while at night it reverses the cycle and produces energy by emptying the raised basin formed during the day.

 

special salts!! as in some kind of Phase Change Materials (PCM)??

 

I don't think it's feasible because the energy that's stored in PCM is thermal energy, while the energy produced by PVs is electrical energy and the conversion would result energy losses.

Also in case you want to use the stored energy in it's electrical form, the conversion from thermal to electrical is not common at small temperature variations.

However PCM can be used in Solar Water Heaters to store excess heat during the day (Thermal Battery) in order to get hot water in the night without the need of a boiler.

Saif Al-khwaldeh
by Saif Al-khwaldeh , Senior Photovoltaic Engineer , Tanweer for Renewable Energy & MEP Contracting

Hybrid systems maybe it's more likely to use than batteries , due to high periodic maintenance for batteries , comparing it with diesel generators 

maen banihani
by maen banihani , Electrical Eng. consultant , Royal Hashmite court

alternatives are hybrid system which uses wind and diesel power generation

Anuradha Pawar
by Anuradha Pawar , Assistant Professor , K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research

Supercapacitor is other best option for storage in stead of battery

 

shady Nagy
by shady Nagy , Senior Electrical Sales Engineer , Ever Green Energy ( 3- brothers group)

you can using salt as csp systems 

but i prefer using batteries 

i prefer use battery or from the grid

You have to think about hybrid PV-Diesel-Battery system.

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