Evaluation and Validation of Equivalent Five-Parameter Model Performance for Photovoltaic Panels Using Only Reference Data

Nouar Aoun^1,2,3, Rachid Chenni³, Boukheit Nahman¹, Kada Bouchouicha²

¹Department of Physics, Constantine 1 University, Constantine, Algeria.
²Research Unit in Renewable Energies in the Saharan Medium, URER/MS, Development Centre of Renewable Energies, Adrar, Algeria.
³MoDERNa Laboratory, Constantine 1 University, Constantine, Algeria.

DOI: 10.4236/epe.2014.69021                

Abstract

This paper presents the modeling of electrical I-V verification of photovoltaic modules using five-parameter models based on the minimum usage of input data, which are usually provided by manufacturer’s datasheet. However, we vary them with a step of 10^-4, the ideality factor between 0.0 and 4 for each iteration in order to choose the value, which gives a minimal relative error of the maximum power point. Moreover, when is known, the other four parameters (i.e., R_s, I₀, I_ph and R_sh) are known. Finally, the effectiveness of this approach is then validated through comparison of the experimental results data under outdoor weather conditions.

Keywords

Photovoltaic, Five-Parameters, Mono-Crystalline, Relative Error, Ideality Factor

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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