Implementing NI Environment for A Remotely Accessed Photovoltaic Module Characterizer.

Mahmoud, Ibrahem; Abdel-Salam, Tarek Saad; Swief, Rania

doi:10.21608/jpme.2020.16724.1008

Implementing NI Environment for A Remotely Accessed Photovoltaic Module Characterizer.

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¹ Renewable Energy Engineering, Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, The British university in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt. Electrical Power and machine Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo , Egypt

² Renewable Energy Engineering Dept., Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, The British University in Egypt. Electrical Power and machine Dept., Faulty of Engineering, Ain Shams University.

³ Department of Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

10.21608/jpme.2020.16724.1008

Abstract

This paper surveys how the characterization process for a Photovoltaic module (PV) is implemented to serve in introductory undergraduate courses and research purposes. The characterizer has the capability of measuring the I-V and P-V characteristic curve of the PV module attached to the system with indicating the solar irradiance that is sensed during the measurement. Also a control circuit design is implemented for dual tracking the PV module. In addition, the developed program introduces the facility of compering the measured data with a numerical based simulation data results from a PV simulator using MATLAB platform. The use of the NI Environment facilitates the Internet publication opportunity where users can access the setup remotely. The remote accessibility is considered as a significant credit in integrating the setup as a demonstration tool in teaching modules as well as student accessibility. The results of the NI software is presented and discussed and analysed.

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