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MATLAB Based Modelling of Solar Photovoltaic Cell: A Project On
MATLAB Based Modelling of Solar Photovoltaic Cell: A Project On
MATLAB Based
Modelling of Solar
Photovoltaic Cell
Presentation By:Parakh Tomar(1209721067)
Rajat Agarwal(1209721080)
Shubham Kaushik(1209721098)
Sidharth Venugopalan (1209721102)
Vaibhav Pant(1209721114)
EEE-B (4th YEAR)
Introduction:Due to reserve of fossil fuel dwindling and the global warming effect looming large,
alternative energies become popular. The most attention of alternative energies is
solar energy. There are two types of technology that employed solar energy,
namely solar thermal and solar cell. A PV cell (solar cell) converts the sunlight into
the electrical energy by the photovoltaic effect. Energy from PV modules offers
several advantages, such as, requirement of little maintenance and no
environmental pollution. Recently, PV arrays are used in many applications, such
as, battery chargers, solar powered water pumping systems, grid connected PV
systems, solar hybrid vehicles and satellite power systems.
In this paper, a simplified PV equivalent circuit with a diode equivalent as model is
proposed. The main contribution of this work is the implementation of a generalized
PV model in the form of masked block which has a user-friendly icon and dialog in
the same way of Matlab/Simulink block libraries.
Effects of Solar Radiation Variation :The above model includes two subsystems: one that calculates
the PV cell photocurrent which depends on the radiation and
the temperature according to equation (2)
Iph = [Isc + Ki(T 298)]
-(2)
Effect of Varying Cell Temperature:The diode reverse saturation current varies as a cubic
function of the temperature and it can be expressed
as:
Effect of Varying Rs:The series resistance of the PV cell is low, and in some cases,
it can be neglected [3]. However, to render the model
suitable for any given PV cell, it is possible to vary this
resistance and predict the influence of its variation on the PV
cell outputs. As seen in Figs.11 and 12, the variation of Rs
affects the slope angle of the I-V curves resulting in a
deviation of the maximum power point.
Effect of Varying Rsh:The shunt resistance of any PV cell should be large enough
for higher output power and fill factor. In fact, for a low shunt
resistor, the PV cell current collapses more steeply which
means higher power loss and lower fill factor. These results
can be seen in Figs.13 and 14.
Effects of Varying Is:The model assists in expecting the behaviour of the PV cell
for different reverse saturation currents of the diode. The
curves of Figs.15 and 16 were plotted for three different
values of Is: 100nA, 10nA and 1nA. The influence of an
increase in Is is evidently seen as decreasing the open-circuit
voltage Voc
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