70% decrease of hot-spotted photovoltaic modules output power loss using novel MPPT algorithm

Mahmoud Dhimish

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Abstract

The phenomenon of 'hot-spotting' within photovoltaic (PV) panels, where a mismatched cell/cells heats up, leads to reliability and efficiency issues. In this brief, a novel maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is developed to compensate for hot-spotted PV module effects, thus increasing the output power and improving reliability. The MPPT algorithm implements two mitigation processes; the first to identify the optimum power-voltage curve to track the global maximum power point (GMPP). The second process is to manipulate the output power toward the GMPP through the control of the perturbation step size. In order to verify the appropriateness of the proposed algorithm, multiple hot-spotted PV modules were tested under various environmental conditions. Significantly, the algorithm reduces the hot-spotted PV modules output power loss by at least 70% under all irradiance transition scenarios, slow, medium, and fast.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8620299
Pages (from-to)2027-2031
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Volume66
Issue number12
Early online date21 Jan 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2019

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