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Performance evaluation of analytical methods for parameters extraction of photovoltaic generators
Anani, Nader Ibrahim, Haider
Anani, Nader
Ibrahim, Haider
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2020-09-15
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This paper presents a succinct exploration of several analytical methods for extracting the parameters of the single-diode model (SDM) of a photovoltaic (PV) module under standard test conditions (STC). The paper investigates six methods and presents the detailed mathematical analysis leading to the development of each method. To evaluate the performance of these methods, MATLAB-based software has been devised and deployed to generate the results of each method when used to extract the SDM parameters of various PV test modules of different PV technologies. Similar software has also been developed to extract the same parameters using well-established numerical and iterative techniques. A comparison is subsequently made between the synthesized results and those obtained using numerical and iterative methods. The comparison indicates that although analytical methods may involve a significant amount of approximations, their accuracy can be comparable to that of their numerical and iterative counterparts, with the added advantage of a significant reduction in computational complexity, and without the initialization and convergence difficulties, which are normally associated with numerical methods.
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Anani, N. and Ibrahim, H. (2020) Performance evaluation of analytical methods for parameters extraction of photovoltaic generators, Energies, 13 (18): 4825. DOI: 10.3390/en13184825
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© 2020 The Authors. Published by MDPI. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence.
The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184825
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1996-1073
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1996-1073