Experimental characterization for a PV module using low cost method

Author

Mahmoud, I.M. ; Abdellatif, S.O. ; Abdel-salam, T.S. ; Bayoumi, A. ; Sahbel, A. ; Abdellatif, O.E.

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., British Univ. in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

19-20 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The fabrication and characterization of PV modules are always done under standard test conditions (STC). However, the condition of operation are often far from this standard conditions. As a result, developing a characterization circuit is considered as a point of interest for researchers. This paper presents a new methodology in characterizing a PV module using an electronic load circuit. The circuit is implemented using a power MOSFET driven by a pulse width modulator (PWM) developed by LABVIEW. The system is tested and its results are validated by comparing it with simulation results performed by Comsol Multiphysics and Matlab. The system shows high accuracy with respect to the previous published work with lower cost and higher simplicity.

Keywords

power MESFET; pulse width modulation; solar cells; Comsol Multiphysics; LABVIEW; Matlab; PV module; PWM; STC; characterization circuit; electronic load circuit; low cost method; power MOSFET; pulse width modulator; standard test conditions; MOSFET; Renewable energy sources; Thermal loading; Characterization; Electronic load; Photovoltaic; Pulse width modulation (PWM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering and Technology (ICET), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEngTechnol.2014.7016773

Filename

7016773