New method for fault detection of PV panels in domestic applications

Author

Davarifar, M. ; Rabhi, A. ; El Hajjaji, A. ; Dahmane, M.

Author_Institution

Lab. of Modeling, Inf. & Syst. (M.I.S), Univ. of Picardie “Jules Verne” (UPJV), Amiens, France

fYear

2013

fDate

29-31 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

727

Lastpage

732

Abstract

This research is presented a new algorithm and method for fault detection of photovoltaic panels in Residential Photovoltaic System (RPS). Our proposed PV performance diagnosis system is consist of two parts, passive and active part. In the passive diagnosis part, residue value is generated with Model Base Fault Diagnosis (MBFD) method to observe clear alarm signal from arbitrary data. As well, statistical method such as Wald test technique is used to detect primary alarm in passive part. After observing the clear alarm signal, flash test is applied for investigating closer scrutiny of I-V characteristic to determine different type of faults (active part). This proposed Simple Flash Test Driver (FTD) device could be integrated in the modern inverters in order to increase the efficiency and reliability of the RPS without increasing any additional cost of materials and device in commercial DC/DC inverter.

Keywords

building integrated photovoltaics; fault diagnosis; invertors; solar cells; DC-DC inverter; FTD device; I-V characteristic; PV performance diagnosis system; RPS; domestic application; fault detection; flash test driver; model base fault diagnosis method; photovoltaic panel; residential photovoltaic system; statistical method; Circuit faults; Data acquisition; Fault detection; Inverters; Mathematical model; Photovoltaic systems; Voltage measurement; Fault detection; Flash test; Photovoltaic; Residue value; Wald test;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems and Control (ICSC), 2013 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Algiers

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0273-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICoSC.2013.6750940

Filename

6750940