Xue Lin
Naehyuck Chang
Massoud Pedram
ABSTRACT
Partial shading is a serious obstacle to effective utilization of photovoltaic (PV) systems since it can result in significant output power degradation for the system. A PV system is organized as a series connection of PV modules, each module comprising of a number of series-parallel connected cells. This paper presents modified PV cell structures with integrated switches, imbalanced cell connection topologies for PV modules, and a dynamic programming algorithm to produce near-optimal reconfigurations of each PV module with the goal of maximizing the system output power level under any partial shading patterns. Through simulations, we have demonstrated up to a factor of 2.3X improvement in the output power level of a PV system comprised of 3 PV modules with 60 PV cells per module.
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Index Terms
- Near-optimal, dynamic module reconfiguration in a photovoltaic system to combat partial shading effects
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