Predicting the energy yield of a photovoltaic system from an individual photovoltaic module

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (9-11) ◽  
pp. 1280-1282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Şentürk ◽  
Rustu Eke
Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Jong Rok Lim ◽  
Woo Gyun Shin ◽  
Chung Geun Lee ◽  
Yong Gyu Lee ◽  
Young Chul Ju ◽  
...  

In recent years, various types of installations such as floating photovoltaic (PV) and agri-voltaic systems, and BIPV (building integrated photovoltaic system) have been implemented in PV systems and, accordingly, there is a growing demand for new PV designs and materials. In particular, in order to install a PV module in a building, it is important to reduce the weight of the module. The PV module in which low-iron, tempered glass is applied to the front surface, which is generally used, has excellent electrical output and reliability characteristics; however, it is heavy. In order to reduce the weight of the PV module, it is necessary to use a film or plastic-based material, as opposed to low-iron, tempered glass, on the front surface. However, if a material other than glass is used on the front of the PV module, various problems such as reduced electrical output and reduced reliability may occur. Therefore, in this paper, a PV module using a film instead of glass as the front surface was fabricated, and a characteristic analysis and reliability test were conducted. First, the transmittance and UV characteristics of each material were tested, and one-cell and 24-cell PV modules were fabricated and tested for electrical output and reliability. From the results, it was found that the transmittance and UV characteristics of the front material were excellent. In addition, the electrical output and reliability test results confirmed that the front-surface film was appropriate for use in a PV module.


2014 ◽  
Vol 694 ◽  
pp. 163-168
Author(s):  
Liang Guo ◽  
Yun Liang ◽  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Xiao Tian Yang

With the rapid development of world economy, the energy crisis has become one of the urgent problems to be solved. Photovoltaic technology is a green new energy industry, no pollution is widely used all over the world. Typically, for photovoltaic component installation, only considering the utilization of components support cost and area, and the arrangement of components have not given enough attention. Photovoltaic module in use process will inevitably encounter the shadow, the shadow changes to make appropriate adjustments to the PV module arrangement can enhance the power generation capacity. Effect of the shadow on the photovoltaic system performance can be effectively used for photovoltaic component to bring help, is of positive significance. This study analyzed the villa model typical, and the rectangular shadow is modeling, in order to analyze the influence on the photovoltaic component. Through the conclusion of this study can determine the horizontal and vertical components of photovoltaic components which caused little damage, and provide a reference for future research of shadow and photovoltaic system performance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Pavan Kumar Naidu ◽  
S Meikandasivam

In this paper, grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system is presented. PV system consists of a photovoltaic module, a boost converter, and voltage source inverter. ANFIS based ICM (Incremental Conductance Method) MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) controller is utilized to produce gate signal for DC-DC boost converter. This controller is used for optimizing the total performance of the Photovoltaic system in turn the errors were reduced in Voltage Source Inverter (VSI). The grid-connected PV system performance is evaluated and har-monics occurred in the system are decreased. The proposed methodology is implemented in MATLAB/Simulink. 


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Manish Shrestha ◽  
Nawraj Bhattarai

Solar Photovoltaic system has become popular among the renewable energy due to free availability and low maintenance costs. Economically, the decreasing cost from continuous development adds another motive for the use of photovoltaic system. There has been a continuous study regarding the estimation on output of the photovoltaic system, in normal operating conditions. The output is subject to variations due to various environmental factors. The aim of this study is to evaluate how Design of Experiments (DoE) Method is used to model the impact of meteorological data on the electric power generated by the photovoltaic system. In this paper, the simulation and experiment based analysis has been presented and the degree of impact of irradiance and temperature on the output power of the photovoltaic module has been illustrated.Journal of the Institute of Engineering, 2016, 12(1): 1-9


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Azhan Ab. Rahman ◽  
Zainal Salam ◽  
Sulaiman Shaari ◽  
Mohd Zulkifli Ramli

Photovoltaic inverter conversion efficiency is closely related to the energy yield of a photovoltaic system. Usually, the peak efficiency (ηmax) value from the inverter data sheet is used, but it is inaccurate because the inverter rarely operates at the peak power. The weighted efficiency is a preferable alternative as it inherently considers the power conversion characteristics of the inverter when subjected to varying irradiance. However, since the weighted efficiency is influenced by irradiance, its value may not be appropriate for different climatic conditions. Based on this premise, this work investigates the non-suitability of the European weighted efficiency (ηEURO) for inverters installed in the Equatorial region. It utilizes a one year data from the Equatorial irradiance profile to recalculate the value of ηEURO (ηEURO_recal) and to compare it with the original ηEURO. Furthermore, a new weighted efficiency formula for the Equatorial climate (ηEQUA) is proposed. Validation results showed that calculated energy yield with ηEQUA closely matched the real energy yield of 3 kW system with only 0.16% difference. It is envisaged that the usage of ηEQUA instead of ηmax or ηEURO will results in a more accurate energy yield and return of investment calculations for PV systems installed in Equatorial regions.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 4775
Author(s):  
Kuei-Hsiang Chao ◽  
Yu-Ju Lai

In this study, a maximum power point tracker was developed for photovoltaic module arrays by using a teacher-learning-based optimization (TLBO) algorithm to control the photovoltaic system. When a photovoltaic module array is shaded, a conventional maximum power point tracker may obtain the local maximum power point rather than the global maximum power point. The tracker developed in this study was aimed at solving this problem. To prove the viability of the proposed method, a SANYO HIP 2717 photovoltaic module with diverse connection patterns and shading ratios was used. Thus, single-peak, double-peak, triple-peak, and multi-peak power–voltage characteristic curves of the photovoltaic module array were obtained. A simulation of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) was then performed with MATLAB software. With regard to practical testing, a boost converter was used as the hardware structure of the maximum power point tracker and a TMS320F2808 digital signal processor was selected to execute the rules for MPPT. The results of the practical tests verified that the proposed improved TLBO algorithm had a superior accuracy to existing TLBO algorithms. In addition, the proposed improved TLBO algorithm can shorten the tracking time to 1/2 or 1/4, so it can improve the efficiency of power generation by two to three percentage.


2018 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 04023
Author(s):  
Krishna Murthy ◽  
Ajay Daniel ◽  
Lanvin Concessao ◽  
Habbie Alex Roy ◽  
A. Ganesha

Sun is the most important source of renewable source of energy. During the past few decades there has been an ever-increasing interest in Photovoltaic (PV) cells as it directly converts solar radiation into electricity. This paper involves the performance study of photovoltaic system under concentrated solar radiation. The main problem with the concentration solar energy is the drastic increase in temperature of the photovoltaic module resulting in a decrease in performance efficiency of the system. This problem of overheating of the system can be overcome by providing cooling which would ensure operation of the module in the optimal temperature range. Hence, the setup would function as a hybrid model serving the dual purpose of power generation while also utilizing the waste heat for water heating applications. The experimental set up consist of a novel arrangement of concentrator and reflector and the cooling system. The Hybrid Photovoltaic System was repeatedly tested under real time conditions on several days. A comparison was drawn between the results obtained from direct exposure of a standard photovoltaic module to that obtained from the hybrid system in order to better understand the improvement in performance parameters. The study shown a significant improvement of output of standard photovoltaic module under the concentrated solar radiation.


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