Development of a FPGA-based photovoltaic panel emulator based on a DC/DC converter

Author

Ickilli, Damla ; Can, Hayrettin ; Parlak, Koray S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Firat Univ., Elazg, Turkey

fYear

2012

fDate

3-8 June 2012

Abstract

Being electrically similar to PV panels, photovoltaic (PV) emulator systems make it possible to perform different PV system tests under various operating conditions. In this paper, we present a photovoltaic emulator system based on a dc/dc converter. Our model can handle the dependence of all the parameters in the model with respect to solar irradiation and temperature. The proposed emulator system is controlled by an Altera Cyclone-III FPGA development board. The experimental results show that the output characteristics of the emulator have good agreement with those of the actual photovoltaic panel in various loads and environmental conditions.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; field programmable gate arrays; photovoltaic power systems; solar radiation; Altera Cyclone-III FPGA development board; DC-DC converter; FPGA based photovoltaic panel emulator; environmental conditions; solar irradiation; Control systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Photovoltaic systems; Temperature; DC-DC power converters; field programmable gate arrays; photovoltaic cells; photovoltaic systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2012 38th IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0064-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317863

Filename

6317863