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2010 - Modeling of PV Module With Consideration of Environmental Factors (Ieee Pes Isgt Europe) PDF
2010 - Modeling of PV Module With Consideration of Environmental Factors (Ieee Pes Isgt Europe) PDF
2010 - Modeling of PV Module With Consideration of Environmental Factors (Ieee Pes Isgt Europe) PDF
Environmental Factors
Nand Kishor, Member, IEEE, Marcelo Gradella Villalva, Soumya Ranjan Mohanty, Member, IEEE,
Ernesto Ruppert
P HOTOVOLTAIC resource among all the renewables is Recently an analytical approach to determine the PV cell
considered to be increasingly important for power parameters, i.e. resistances by adjustment of I-V equation
generation in last few decades. This has resulted not only with experimental characteristics was suggested in [16].
decreased dependence on fossil fuel but also in emission of This paper discusses the modeling of PV cell/array based on
greenhouse gases. Photovoltaic for power generation is the approach mentioned in [16] for various environmental
considered ideal resource in the distributed generation system, factors that affect the output performance.
which are located at or near to the load point.
A single PV cell being too small for practical power
application is usually connected as series-parallel combination III. SINGLE DIODE PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL MODEL
Without much emphasis given on physics of how the PV cell
Nand Kishor is with Department of Electrical Engineering, Motilal Nehru transforms the solar photons into direct current power, this
National Institute of Technology Allahabad-211004, India (e-mail: section starts with modeling concept of single diode PV cell.
nandkishor@mnnit.ac.in).
S. R. Mohanty is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Motilal
The standard PV cell is represented as a current source in
Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad-211004, India (e-mail: parallel with a single diode. The equivalent circuit diagram is
soumyaigit@gmail.com). shown in Fig. 1. The output, I photo ,cell is directly proportional
Marcelo Gradella Villalva and Ernesto Ruppert are with the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil, to amount of solar incident on the PV cell. It is the diode that
(e-mails: mvillalva@gmail.com, ruppert@fee.unicamp.br) determines the shape of I-V characteristics of a PV cell. A
more detailed model can be represented by inclusion of Rs
following:
I d ,cell I PV ,cell
Temperature dependence of the diode saturation current, I 0 I photo ,cell
Temperature dependence of the photon current, I photo ,cell Vd Rsh
Series resistance, Rs that represents the internal losses
Shunt resistance, Rsh in parallel with diode to take into
account leakage current to the ground
Diode quality factor, a Fig. 1: Detailed circuit equivalent of a PV cell.
3
T qEg 1 1 I pv d
I 0 = I 0, n n exp (6) I mp = I mp ,0 (9)
T0 ak Tn T0 I pv
Where, I 0,n is the nominal saturation current given by: An empirical relation that provides the actual PV module
temperature T0 as a function of nominal temperature Tn , solar
I pv Voc , n / Rsh
I 0,n = radiation G0 and wind velocity can be formulated as:
V (7)
exp oc ,n 1
Vt aN s Tn T0
1000 = 0.0712 ( wv ) 2.411( wv ) + 32.96
2
(10)
G
200
for wind velocity, wv < 18 m / s.
180
Series resistances of PV cells and diodes is temperature
dependent and increases with temperature increase, 160
100
600 6
80
500 5
60
400 4
40
300 3
20
200 2
100 1 0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
0 0 Cell voltage [V]
0 50 100 150 0 50 100 150
Array voltage [V] Array voltage [V] (a) P-V characteristics.
9
(a) P-V and I-V characteristics at 250 C.
8
600 6
7
500 5
6
400 4
300 3
5
200 2 4
100 1
3
0 0
0 50 100 150 0 50 100 150
Array voltage [V] Array voltage [V] 2
1
(b) P-V and I-V characteristics at 500 C.
0
Fig. 2: Adjusted curves at different temperatures on EN2060. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Cell voltage [V]
(b) I-V characteristics.
V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Fig. 3: Effect of dust deposition on PV module output on KC200GT.
The study in the paper uses the parameters of solar PV
module, EN2060 and Kyocera KC200GT. The parameters are
given in Appendix. Figure 2 shows the adjusted curves of 200
solar PV module EN2060 at two different temperatures. The 180
effect of dust particles on Kyocera KC200GT solar module is
160
shown in Fig. 3. It is noted that open circuit voltage remains
unchanged, while the cell current has decreased noticeably, 140
resulting into reduction in maximum power point too. The
Cell power [W]
120
same study for changes in solar radiation intensity is
100
represented in Fig. 4. In case of lowered solar radiation, there
is slight decrease in open circuit voltage with respect to 80
reduction in value of short circuit current. Next the influence 60
of variation in wind velocity on I-V and P-V characteristics is
shown in Fig. 5. As observed, the variation in wind velocity in 40
120
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Cell voltage [V] (d) Wind effect:
9
Parameter 18 m/sec 13 m/sec 10 m/sec
8
Rs ,max 0.862726 0.862361 0.861531
7
Rs 0.32 0.33 0.34
6
Cell current [A]
4
VI. CONCLUSION
3
The paper presented the determination of resistances of PV
2 cell with adjustment of characteristics that correspond to
maximum power point. The influential environmental factors
1 that affect the PV module performance were considered in the
0 study. The study was carried out at parameters of two different
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 commercially available PV modules.
Cell voltage [V]
IX. BIOGRAPHIES