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http://dx.doi.org/10.7836/kses.2018.38.3.021

The Monitoring System with PV Module-level Fault Diagnosis Algorithm  

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)
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Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society / v.38, no.3, 2018 , pp. 21-28 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Photovoltaic System; Monitoring; Diagnosis Algorithm; Bypass Diode;
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