Behavior study of PVG via designing of a solar simulator software

Author

Djalel, D.I.B. ; Moatazbillah, Gasmi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Tebessa, Tebessa, Algeria

fYear

2014

fDate

25-27 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We present in this paper a software simulation system with interactive graphic interface for solar systems designed with Matlab-Simulink. In the first part, the system is able to model the five different types of cells / solar modules appear by the characteristics, current-voltage (I-V) and power-voltage (P-V) under different external conditions such as solar irradiance and temperature ambient and the serial resistance Rs. In the second phase of operation of the solar simulator, the system offers for users an easy choice tracking the maximum power point MPPT provided by the solar photovoltaic generator or whatever the conditions under which is the solar panel. Two algorithms are involved either in the simulation module to extract the MPPT, it is perturb and observe (P&O) and the incremental conductance (I.C). With this interactive graphic interface, this solar system software offers flexibility of use for solar professional and researchers.

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; maximum power point trackers; photovoltaic cells; power engineering computing; power system simulation; solar cells; MPPT; Matlab-Simulink; PVG; ambient temperature; behavior study; current-voltage characteristics; incremental conductance; interactive graphic interface; maximum power point tracking; power-voltage characteristics; serial resistance; software simulation system; solar irradiance; solar modules; solar panel; solar photovoltaic generator; solar simulator software; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Maximum power point trackers; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Software; Incremental inductance(I.C); Maximum power point tracking (MPPT); Modeling; Perturb and observe(PO); Photovoltaic (PV); Simulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), 2014 5th International

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2196-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IREC.2014.6827029

Filename

6827029