Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/en10050699
Keywords
photovoltaic; TCT; reconfiguration; I-V curve; fault detection
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61532007, 61672140]
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Major Machine Manufacturing in Liaoning
- State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries [PAL-N201503]
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Photovoltaic (PV) system output electricity is related to PV cells' conditions, with the PV faults decreasing the efficiency of the PV system and even causing a possible source of fire. In industrial production, PV fault detection is typically laborious manual work. In this paper, we present a method that can automatically detect PV faults. Based on the observation that different faults will have different impacts on a PV system, we propose a method that systematically and iteratively reconfigures the PV array until the faults are located based on the specific current-voltage (I-V) curve of the (sub-) array. Our method can detect several main types of faults including open-circuit faults, mismatch faults, short circuit faults, etc. We evaluate our methods by Matlab/Simulink-based simulation. The results show that the proposed methods can accurately detect and classify the different faults occurring in a PV system.
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