DocumentCode :
135609
Title :
A unique model of Characterization & performance estimation of various solar photovoltaic cells/modules using Microcontroller
Author :
Naskar, R. ; Das, Pritam ; Mandal, Ratna
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., JIS Coll. of Eng., Kalyani, India
fYear :
2014
fDate :
16-17 Jan. 2014
Firstpage :
6
Lastpage :
9
Abstract :
At the end of the solar module manufacturing process, an I-V measurement is performed under different illumination of each individual solar module to determine its current Imp and voltage Vmp at the maximum power point and the ISC and VOC points, where the power will be zero and the maximum value of power will occur between the two. The Fill Factor (FF) is essentially a measure of quality of the solar sell. When calculated the performance of the solar cell from I-V Characteristics using the conventional method, it was found that noise caused the I-V curves to zigzag slightly near the VOC and to zigzag widely near the `knee´ of the curve. Defining the exact value of solar Module´s parameters is called Module´s Characterization. So in this paper the authors are tried to minimized the noise of I-V curve to get the highest power output using Automatic electronic load regulator and also find out a real value of ISC and VOC points from the I-V curve plotting using ATMEGA Microcontroller.
Keywords :
microcontrollers; power engineering computing; solar cells; voltage regulators; ATMEGA microcontroller; FF; I-V measurement; automatic electronic load regulator; fill factor; maximum power point; solar cell quality; solar module manufacturing process; solar module parameters; solar photovoltaic cells-modules; Microcontrollers; Photovoltaic systems; Automatic Voltage Regulator; I–V characteristics; Microcontroller (ATMEGA-168); Solar cell;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Non Conventional Energy (ICONCE), 2014 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kalyani
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3339-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICONCE.2014.6808691
Filename :
6808691
Link To Document :
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