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The document discusses modeling photovoltaic (PV) modules, which convert light into electricity. An accurate PV module model requires accounting for weather inputs like irradiance and temperature, which affect the module's current-voltage (I-V) and power-voltage (P-V) characteristics. The paper presents a detailed model of a PV module using the single diode model with series and parallel resistors to account for the effects of irradiance and temperature on the module's parameters. The model is simulated step-by-step using MATLAB/Simulink software.

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Chapter 4

The document discusses modeling photovoltaic (PV) modules, which convert light into electricity. An accurate PV module model requires accounting for weather inputs like irradiance and temperature, which affect the module's current-voltage (I-V) and power-voltage (P-V) characteristics. The paper presents a detailed model of a PV module using the single diode model with series and parallel resistors to account for the effects of irradiance and temperature on the module's parameters. The model is simulated step-by-step using MATLAB/Simulink software.

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The PV module is the interface which converts light into electricity.

Modeling this device,


necessarily requires taking weather data (irradiance and temperature) as input variables. The
output can be current, voltage, power or other. However, trace the characteristics I(V) or P(V)
needs of these three variables. Any change in the entries immediately implies changes in
outputs. That is why, it is important to use an accurate model for the PV module. This paper
presents a detailed modeling of the effect of irradiance and temperature on the parameters of
the PV module. The chosen model is the single diode model with both series and parallel
resistors for greater accuracy. The detailed modeling is then simulated step by step using
MATLAB/Simulink software due to its frequent use and its effectiveness.

The number of unknown parameters increases when the equivalent circuit of the chosen model
becomes more convenient and far from being the ideal form. But most of the manufacturers’ data
sheets do not give enough information about the parameters which depend on weather conditions
(irradiance and temperature). So, some assumptions with respect to the physical nature of the cell
behavior are necessary to establish a mathematical model of the PV cell and the PV module, in addition
of course, to the use of that information given by the constructors. The objective of this paper is to
present useful work to those who want to focus their attention on the PV module or array as one device
in a complex “electro-energetic system”. So, the goal is to obtain at any time, the maximum power but
also the more precise, therefore, the closest to the experimental value.

The characteristic I(V) is a non-linear equation with multiple parameters classified as follows: those
provided by constructors, those known as constants and the ones which must be computed. Sometimes,
searchers develop simplified methods where, some unknown parameters cannot be calculated. They are
thus assumed constant. For example, in Walker and Geoff (2001) the series resistance RS was included,
but not the parallel resistance for a model of moderate complexity. The same assumption is adopted in
Benmessaoud et al. (2010), Atlas and Sharaf (1992), Beckman et al. (xxxx), Bryan (1999), Bouzid et al.
(2005), by considering the parallel resistance very large. Other authors neglect both parallel and series
resistances; the former due to being very large, the latter being very small. On the other hand, there are
in the literature other papers, in which, these two internal characteristics of the PV module are very
important and have to be determined more accurately as in Townsend (1989), Alsayid and Jallad (2011),
Kashif Ishaque and Syafaruddin (2011), Gazoli et al. (2009), De Soto (2006) and Chouder et al. (2012). In
addition to the series and parallel resistances and according to the authors, two or three other
parameters are to be determined; the photo current (Iph), the saturation current (I0) and the ideality
factor (A).

2. Presentation and modeling of PV module


The model does not take into account the internal losses of the current. A diode is connected in anti-
parallel with the light generated current source. The output current I is obtained by Kirchhoff law:

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