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The Monitoring System with PV Module-level Fault Diagnosis Algorithm

태양전지모듈 고장 진단 알고리즘을 적용한 모니터링시스템

  • Ko, Suk-Whan (Photovoltaic Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • So, Jung-Hun (Photovoltaic Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Hwang, Hye-Mi (Photovoltaic Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Ju, Young-Chul (Photovoltaic Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Song, Hyung-June (Photovoltaic Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Shin, Woo-Gyun (Photovoltaic Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Kang, Gi-Hwan (Photovoltaic Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • Choi, Jung-Rae (Research Institute, KDT Corporation) ;
  • Kang, In-Chul (Research Institute, ELSCOM Corporation)
  • 고석환 (한국에너지기술연구원 태양광연구실) ;
  • 소정훈 (한국에너지기술연구원 태양광연구실) ;
  • 황혜미 (한국에너지기술연구원 태양광연구실) ;
  • 주영철 (한국에너지기술연구원 태양광연구실) ;
  • 송형준 (한국에너지기술연구원 태양광연구실) ;
  • 신우균 (한국에너지기술연구원 태양광연구실) ;
  • 강기환 (한국에너지기술연구원 태양광연구실) ;
  • 최정내 (주식회사케이디티 부설연구소) ;
  • 강인철 (주식회사엘스콤 부설연구소)
  • Received : 2018.02.19
  • Accepted : 2018.06.17
  • Published : 2018.06.30

Abstract

The objects of PV (Photovoltaic) monitoring system is to reduce the loss of system and operation and maintenance costs. In case of PV plants with configured of centralized inverter type, only 1 PV module might be caused a large loss in the PV plant. For this reason, the monitoring technology of PV module-level that find out the location of the fault module and reduce the system losses is interested. In this paper, a fault diagnosis algorithm are proposed using thermal and electrical characteristics of PV modules under failure. In addition, the monitoring system applied with proposed algorithm was constructed. The wireless sensor using LoRa chip was designed to be able to connect with IoT device in the future. The characteristics of PV module by shading is not failure but it is treated as a temporary failure. In the monitoring system, it is possible to diagnose whether or not failure of bypass diode inside the junction box. The fault diagnosis algorithm are developed on considering a situation such as communication error of wireless sensor and empirical performance evaluation are currently conducting.

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