Volume 22, Issue 1, April 2016, Pages 164–177
V. Thiyagarajan1 and P. Somasundaram2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Tamilnadu, India
2 Associate Professor, Department of EEE, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In recent years, the effect of partial shading on the energy yield of photovoltaic array has been widely analysed. Partial shading conditions caused due to moving clouds and shadows of nearby objects on a photovoltaic array can have a significant effect on its energy yield. The power output of the photovoltaic array under partial shading depends on the PV array configuration, shading pattern and the physical location of shaded modules in the array. The amount of power generated by the photovoltaic array also changes continuously with the changes in weather conditions. Therefore it is very important to understand the characteristics of photovoltaic array under non uniform irradiation condition in order to achieve higher efficiency under all conditions. The main objective of this paper is to analyse the performance of different configurations of photovoltaic array with H5 inverter under partial shading conditions. The simulation was done using MATLAB/SIMULINK environment.
Author Keywords: Photovoltaic array, Series-Parallel, Total Cross Tied, Bridge link, partial shading, H5 Inverter.
V. Thiyagarajan1 and P. Somasundaram2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Tamilnadu, India
2 Associate Professor, Department of EEE, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In recent years, the effect of partial shading on the energy yield of photovoltaic array has been widely analysed. Partial shading conditions caused due to moving clouds and shadows of nearby objects on a photovoltaic array can have a significant effect on its energy yield. The power output of the photovoltaic array under partial shading depends on the PV array configuration, shading pattern and the physical location of shaded modules in the array. The amount of power generated by the photovoltaic array also changes continuously with the changes in weather conditions. Therefore it is very important to understand the characteristics of photovoltaic array under non uniform irradiation condition in order to achieve higher efficiency under all conditions. The main objective of this paper is to analyse the performance of different configurations of photovoltaic array with H5 inverter under partial shading conditions. The simulation was done using MATLAB/SIMULINK environment.
Author Keywords: Photovoltaic array, Series-Parallel, Total Cross Tied, Bridge link, partial shading, H5 Inverter.
How to Cite this Article
V. Thiyagarajan and P. Somasundaram, “Performance Analysis of Photovoltaic Array with H5 inverter under Partial Shading Conditions,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 164–177, April 2016.
