RESEARCH ARTICLE

A comprehensive simulator for assessing the reliability of a photovoltaic panel peak power tracking system

  • Nabil KAHOUL , 1 ,
  • Mourad HOUABES 1 ,
  • Ammar NEÇAIBIA 2
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  • 1. Laboratoire d’ Electrotechnique, d’ Annaba, Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University, Annaba 23000, Algeria
  • 2. Research Unit of Renewable Energy in Saharan Middle (URER/MS), Adrar 01000, Algeria

Received date: 08 Apr 2014

Accepted date: 29 Sep 2014

Published date: 29 May 2015

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2015 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

When designing a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm, it is often difficult to correctly predict, before field testing, the behavior of this MPPT under varying solar irradiation on photovoltaic (PV) panels. A solution to this problem is to design a maximum power point trackers simulator of a PV system used to test MPPT algorithms. This simulator must have the same role as the MPPT card of the PV panel and thus will fully emulate the response of a real MPPT card of the PV panel. Therefore, it is a good substitute to help to test the peak power trackers of the PV system in the laboratory. This paper describes a simple peak power trackers simulator of the PV system which has a short response time thus, can be used to test MPPT algorithms under very rapid variation condition. The obtained results and the theoretical operation confirm the reliability and the superior performance of the proposed model.

Cite this article

Nabil KAHOUL , Mourad HOUABES , Ammar NEÇAIBIA . A comprehensive simulator for assessing the reliability of a photovoltaic panel peak power tracking system[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2015 , 9(2) : 170 -179 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-015-0353-y

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