ABSTRACT
Photovoltaic (PV) electrical power generation is an important and promising research area because there is high demand for renewable energy systems. To improve the performance of PV array systems so that these energy systems might be better understood and more readily available, more research needs to be done to detect faults on PV array and system monitoring. Through the study of fault detection methods on PV systems, the process of using and analyzing these systems can become more streamlined and reliable. In this paper, most of the fault detection methods that use signal processing and interfere with PV array analysis techniques will be discussed and analyzed. This paper seeks to identify early detection methods that can
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Additionally, progress in PV research has political benefits because installing PV systems does not require specific resources to be imported from other countries. Because of that advantage, governments across the world have supported the deployment of PV arrays and funded research to improve PV technology [2].
In this paper, an overview of PV is discussed in Section 2. Section 3 presents fault analysis of PV arrays and types of faults, which occur in PV arrays. Fault detection methods of PV arrays are mentioned in Section 4. Finally, Section 5 contains a conclusion about fault detection methods that use signal-processing techniques.
2 OVERVIEW OF PHOTOVOLTAICS
Even though this work presented in this paper analyzes PV arrays at a very sophisticated level, some basic understanding of the electrical attitude and characteristics of individual PV cells is needed to obtain the big picture. This section contains brief explanations of the PV cell. First, Section 2.1 covers single-diode equivalent circuit model of a PV cell and current-voltage characteristic (I-V). Second, the most common models of PV module performance are discussed in Section 2.2. Last, solar cells connections are described in Section 2.3.
2.1 Single-Diode Model and I-V Characteristics
A solar cell is basically a p-n junction made-up in thin layers of semiconductor material. It converts solar energy
The PV module has been designed by considering the irradiance, temperature and number of PV cells connected in series and parallel. Figure 5.1 shows the simulink model of solar system. Here only function file used to show the solar system, the program code is given in the appendix. Here we are using a battery. The system is generated 240volt and current is 2.9 A.
Fig.3. shows algorithm for the proposed method. This algorithm uses voltage and current of the PV module. A permitted error of 0.06 as shown in (8) is used in modified algorithm to eliminate the steady state oscillation in the system. The permitted error is written as I + V dI/dV 0.06 Using the permitted error of 0.06, the steady state error is approximately 0.7% based on the duty cycle step size of 0.005.
Similar to the previous work [17], the second ANN architecture design adopts the PV module short circuit(ISC) in Ampere,and the open circuit voltage (VOC) in Volts, as the inputs of the network and the PV generator output power (P) in Watt, as the output of the network. The data set stored in the data acquisition is trained until new patterns may be presented to them forprediction. Thus the trained data are compared to the experimental measurements, recorded during the characterization tests.
The simulation study of the complete system is carried out by using MATLAB/SIMULINK. For this simulation, four PV module in a series connection mode is considered. Each PV module consists of three submodules. A multiwinding flyback converter is connected across each PV module. Fig. 7(a) shows the P-V charactristc cunve of the PV array (with bypass diode) without using the integrated converter. The figure shows multiple power peaks with maximum power nearly 500W. The shading pattern of the PV array is presented in Table-1. Fig. 7(b) shows the characteristic curve by integrating the converter across each PV module. The P-V characteristic curve exhibits a single peak point. The peak power is nearly 670W. As compared to conventional PV system more than 150W power can be extracted from the PV system. Each submodule of the PV module is subjected different solar insolation. Fig. 8(a ) shows the current of submodule of PV module-1. In this figure, submodule-3 generates less power as
Currently solar power is beginning to expand horizontally throughout communities. This growth is creating a demand that is beginning to reduce the expense of purchasing and installing solar panels. The concept is catching on and the technology is improving as the demand increases.
A solar photovoltaic power system is a technology that converts the energy from sunlight into electrical energy. Residential solar photovoltaic systems can offset much of a household's power needs, depending on the size of the system and the household's needs. The output power from is directly proportional to power received from the sun, which varies throughout the day and year. The rated maximum output of the module might be achieved only occasionally, depending on actual site conditions. It is a renewable source of energy that is sustainable and totally inexhaustible. Solar energy is also a non-polluting source of energy that doesn’t emit any greenhouse gases when producing electricity.
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Zhou, W., Yang, H.X., & Fang, Z.H. (2007) A Novel Modelfor Photovoltaic Array Performance Prediction, AppliedEnergy, 84, (12), pp. 1187–1198.
Solar cell or photovoltaic (PV) systems usually transformed energy from the sun in to electric current. It can be measured in terms of ‘‘conversion efficiency’’, the proportion of solar energy transformed to electricity. (Henderson, Conkling, & Roberts, 2007) Sunpower primarily focused on the production of solar cell. But by moving in to wafer manufacturing it soon incorporated in to manufacturing of solar power module units. In general Sunpower manufacturing process needed approximately two times as many steps as the usual solar manufacturing process need and many of these steps were distinctive to Sunpower. Sunpower has nearly 15 -20 established cell manufactures, a handful of silicon – based cell manufacturing upstarts and a number of thin film solar companies offering potentially unsettling technologies.
Since when it was determined that electricity could be generated from the sun, the power industry has taken slack for not considering it as a viable addition to their generation fleet. However, there are two facts that need to be remembered with respect to the power industry. The first thing to remember is that power has to be supplied to their customers regardless of the weather or the time of day. Secondly, power companies are just like any other company; they are in the business of making money. Because of those two facts, solar energy at its current technological state has no place in the power industry’s current generation fleet.
Recently, the price of unrenewable energy resource such as oil, coral and natural gas is increasing by time because of rare and more and more usage for individual and industries. Solar panels which use energy from Sun are considered as renewable energy through the form of solar radiation, UV. Solar technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they
In general, solar PV module voltage is low, ranging from 30-60V DC. To meet the demand of AC loads, there is a need for inversion as well as a voltage boosting, whereas voltage boosting is dependent on parameters like module voltage, the number of modules, and their connection [7-9]. Thus, it is clear that PCS must have following functionalities, such as voltage boosting (optional), MPPT Tracking and inversion. The voltage boosting stage can be provided by either step-up dc-dc converter or transformer followed by an inverter [10-13]. But placing the transformer to raise the voltage level is not a good solution as it increases the cost, size, and volume of the overall system. Moreover, it lowers the efficiency of the system. Hence transformerless topologies received lot of attention in past few years [9]. Two types of transformerless solutions are suggested in the literature for solar PV power generations, namely a) multi-stage power conversion and b) single stage power conversion [23-24]. Whether it is single stage or multiple stage power conversion the most critical part of a solar PV system is the inverter, which will be discussed in next sections. At present, inverters are the essential cause of breakdown of huge scale PV systems [12]. Moreover, in addition to the quality problems, inverters give restricted power efficiency [7]. Normally, inverter efficiency is around 94% and as the load diminishes the efficiency can
Photovoltaic cells, are used in buildings in the way of photovoltaic panels also known as “Solar PV Panels” to provide and deliver electricity directly into the building. They are often being mixed up with “Solar Thermal Panels”, as they are both put on the roofs of the buildings and look very similar, however they provide
It can be obtained doing multiple measurements of the power output of the solar cell for various load resistances. By doing so, the Isc and the Voc can be obtained when the resistance tends to zero and when the resistance tends to infinity respectively. Furthermore, using this method the optimal operation point known as the maximum power point (mpp) can also be found and consequently the current at the maximum power point (Impp) and the voltage at the maximum power point (Vmpp). In figure 2.2 an example of an IV curve with its most important features is
Abstract: The current energy situation with fossil fuels as the main source of the world’s energy has two main flaws: fossil fuels contribute to global warming via the greenhouse effect and they are limited in the quantity that remains. Solar power solves both of these problems and can be captured by utilizing photovoltaic cells. However, photovoltaic cells have their own drawbacks due to their high costs of installation and maintenance.