TY - GEN
T1 - Laboratory emulation of a photovoltaic module for controllable insolation and realistic dynamic performance
AU - Qin, Shibin
AU - Kim, Katherine A.
AU - Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C.N.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, a high fidelity, easy-to-implement photovoltaic (PV) module emulator is presented. The proposed emulator can replicate the electrical behavior of a sunlight illuminated PV module in an indoor environment. The construction of this emulator requires only a PV module and basic laboratory equipment, while still providing dynamic performance that closely matches that of an illuminated PV module in an outdoor environment. The output I-V characteristics of the PV module under real sunlight and that of the proposed emulator were experimentally obtained and compared, such that the functionality of the proposed emulator was verified. An in-depth analysis of the PV module output small-signal impedance is also presented to illustrate the dynamic performance of this emulator.
AB - In this paper, a high fidelity, easy-to-implement photovoltaic (PV) module emulator is presented. The proposed emulator can replicate the electrical behavior of a sunlight illuminated PV module in an indoor environment. The construction of this emulator requires only a PV module and basic laboratory equipment, while still providing dynamic performance that closely matches that of an illuminated PV module in an outdoor environment. The output I-V characteristics of the PV module under real sunlight and that of the proposed emulator were experimentally obtained and compared, such that the functionality of the proposed emulator was verified. An in-depth analysis of the PV module output small-signal impedance is also presented to illustrate the dynamic performance of this emulator.
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U2 - 10.1109/PECI.2013.6506029
DO - 10.1109/PECI.2013.6506029
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84877834515
SN - 9781467356022
T3 - 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2013
SP - 23
EP - 29
BT - 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2013
Y2 - 22 February 2013 through 23 February 2013
ER -