Electronic Equipment Proposal to Improve the Photovoltaic Systems Efficiency

This paper reports a new technique proposal to improve the photovoltaic systems. It was made to design and implement an electronic system that will detect, capture, and transfer the maximum power of the photovoltaic (PV) panel to optimize the supplied power of a solar panel. The electronic system wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: J. E. Flores-Mena, L. A. Juárez Morán, J. Díaz Reyes
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:México
Institución:Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Repositorio:Redalyc-IPN
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:46421597005
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=46421597005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas
Solar energy
Electric sweeping
Photovoltaic module
Maximum power point tracking
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Sumario:This paper reports a new technique proposal to improve the photovoltaic systems. It was made to design and implement an electronic system that will detect, capture, and transfer the maximum power of the photovoltaic (PV) panel to optimize the supplied power of a solar panel. The electronic system works on base technical proposal of electrical sweeping of electric characteristics using capacitive impedance. The maximum power is transformed and the solar panel energy is sent to an automotive battery. This electronic system reduces the energy lost originated when the solar radiation level decreases or the PV panel temperature is increased. This electronic system tracks, captures, and stores the PV module¿s maximum power into a capacitor. After, a higher voltage level step-up circuit was designed to increase the voltage of the PV module¿s maximum power and then its current can be sent to a battery. The experimental results show that the developed electronic system has 95% efficiency. The measurement was made to 50 W, the electronic system works rightly with solar radiation rate from 100 to 1,000 W m-2 and the PV panel temperature rate changed from 1 to 75¿C. The main advantage of this electronic system compared with conventional methods is the elimination of microprocessors, computers, and sophisticated numerical approximations, and it does not need any small electrical signals to track the maximum power. The proposed method is simple, fast, and it is also cheaper.