Abstract—An experimental study was conducted for ascertaining electrical and thermal characteristics of a pair of photovoltaic (PV) modules integrated with solar wall of an outdoor room. A prefabricated outdoor room was setup for conducting outdoor experiments on a PV solar wall with passive and active ventilation through the outdoor room. The selective operating conditions for glass coated PV ...

Neural networks algorithms are tested to replace an optimization module for the energy management of a residential grid-connected PV system with storage. This study shows multiple problems of the implementation of these tools, despite their theoretical promising interests.

In this paper, the theory and modeling of large scale photovoltaic (PV) in the power grid and its effect on power system stability are studied. In this work, the basic module, small signal modeling and mathematical analysis of the large scale PV jointed multi-machine are demonstrated. The principal portion of the paper is to reduce the low frequency fluctuations by tuned stabilizer in the atten...

This paper presents an alternative method to reduce the monthly electricity bill at Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy (CERE) which is by installing a stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system. In the stand-alone PV system, apart from the PV module and loads, other components in the system such as battery, charge controller, inverter and protection device are categorized under Balance of Syst...

This paper analyzes the performance of two different maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms for photovoltaic (PV) system: artificial neural network (ANN) and adaptive neuro fuzzy inference (ANFIS) as used by an interleaved soft switching boost converter (ISSBC) system with different conditions, such as partially shaded, condition, changing solar insolation and PV cell temperature. Howev...

fossil fuel reserves is causing major changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and associated climate change. Clearly, this is an untenable situation and alternative renewable energy sources must be found. The concept of harvesting the sun’s energy to create electrical power is an obvious answer and the principles of ‘photovoltaics’ (PV) (the direct conversion of ‘photons to volts’) have been demo...

The DC-DC converters are widely used in photovoltaic generating systems as an interface between PV module and the load. These converters must be chosen to be able to match the maximum power point (MPP) of PV module when climatic conditions change with different resistive load values. So DC-DC converters must be used with MPPT controller in order to reduce losses in the global PV system. This ar...

his investigation tried to control a standalone hybrid DC microgrid in islanded operation mode by using decentralized power management strategies. Unlike common approaches where a Photovoltaic (PV) module is controlled as current source, the proposed strategy controls PV arrays as a voltage source that follows the current/voltage adaptive characteristic curve. Proposed I/V characteristic for hy...

Efficiency of the PV module can be improved by operating at its peak power point so that the maximum power can be delivered to the load under varying environmental conditions. This paper is mainly focused on the maximum power point tracking of solar photovoltaic array (PV) under non uniform insolation conditions. A maximum power point tracker (MPPT) is used for extracting the maximum power from...