Week3: Meeting the Supervisor and the Lab Day

Yesterday all the members in our group met Dr. Jiang in his office. We decided to show him the achievements we got in the last two weeks, and I brought my laptop there to display the simulation results and the contents on my logbook.
Dr. Jiang appreciated our efforts, while he gave us some advice. It is important that we present our results to him in the form of a report, while the contents in the logbook were in the form which is similar to a diary and is not clear enough. Dr. Jiang advised us to introduce more about the software Homer Energy, and explain more about the principles of calculating the results. Once we explain the principles to the listeners, they will be able to learn what we have done in this project.

Today is the third lab day, and we finished the simulations for the three cases together. In the morning, Shan Xin sorted all the important formulas in the software and gave some tips for them. Mao Mengkai worked on a mini report of introducing micro-grids and he searched for relevant information of applications of Homer Energy. Lu Huimin was asked to write the report for sustainable development which is required for each group. I was focusing on complete the data for each case by using Homer Energy.
In the afternoon, we discussed the statistics for the components in the three cases, and did simulations for many times to examine the resonability of the data. After a large amount of simulations, we researched the results and solved some of the problems. After the lab, we decided to finish a brief report for case 1 on Sunday and then it would be easier to finish the others.