Open AccessPower Enhancement from Solar PV Array Topologies under Partial Shading Condition
Author(s) -
Santosh K. Singh,
Anurag Singh Yadav,
Ashutosh Srivastava,
Amarjeet Singh
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
samriddhi - a journal of physical sciences, engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-5767
pISSN - 2229-7111
DOI - 10.18090/samriddhi.v10i01.5
Subject(s) - photovoltaic system , network topology , shading , matlab , power (physics) , topology (electrical circuits) , maximum power principle , electronic engineering , computer science , engineering , electrical engineering , physics , computer graphics (images) , quantum mechanics , operating system
In this paper, a detailed study is carried out on the solar photovoltaic (PV) array topologies under various shading patterns. The aim of this study is to investigate the mismatch effect losses in PV modules for non uniform irradiations. The shading causes not only power losses, but also non-linearity of P-V characteristics. Under partial shaded conditions, the P-V and I-V characteristics exhibit extreme non-linearity along with multiple load maxima. In this paper, the investigations of the optimal layout of PV modules in a PV array are worked out to provide maximum output power under various shaded conditions. Three type of solar PV array topologies e.g. Series-parallel (SP), Total cross tied (TCT) and Bridge link (BL) are considered for various typesof shaded patterns. The modeling of solar PV array for various types of topologies is done in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The extensive results have been taken on these topologies for partial shading patterns and analyzed, which proves the TCT topology performance is better as compared to other topologies for most of the shading patterns.