Development of arduino assisted data acquisition system for solar photovoltaic array characterization under partial shading conditions

Rupendra Kumar Pachauri; Om Prakash Mahela; Baseem Khan; Ashok Kumar; Sunil Agarwal; Hassan Haes Alhelou; Jianbo Bai

doi:10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.107175

Development of arduino assisted data acquisition system for solar photovoltaic array characterization under partial shading conditions

Rupendra Kumar Pachauri, Om Prakash Mahela, Baseem Khan, Ashok Kumar, Sunil Agarwal, Hassan Haes Alhelou, Jianbo Bai

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Abstract

This research proposed the data acquisition system (DAS), which has a capability to collect real-time voltage and current at variable load resistance during an experimental characterization analysis of 3 × 3 size, photo voltaic (PV) system, under partial shading conditions (PSCs). In addition, the system is economical and minimizes the testing period for PV system characterization relative to traditional approaches. Analogue voltage and current sensors are integrated with the open-source Arduino platform to quantify and store real-time performance data in the SD card assembly. Performance parameters such as voltage and power at global maximum power point (GMPP), with minimized power loss (PL) and improved fill factor (FF) shows the effectiveness of the proposed system under the PSCs. Real-time hardware is developed and its performance is compared with the MATLAB/Simulink performance, with percentage errors as low as 0.48%, 1.95% and 1.37% under different shading case.

Original language	English
Article number	107175
Journal	Computers and Electrical Engineering
Volume	92
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.107175
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Current sensor
Data logger
PV characterisation
Partial shading conditions
Voltage sensor

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Control and Systems Engineering
General Computer Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Development of arduino assisted data acquisition system for solar photovoltaic array characterization under partial shading conditions

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