An investigation on partial shading of PV modules with different connection configurations of PV cells

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3069-3078

  Wang, Yaw Juen ^a   Hsu, Po Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Connection configurations; Partial shading; Photovoltaic cells; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

COMPARISON INDEX; CONNECTION CONFIGURATIONS; CURRENT EQUATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE; ELECTRIC NETWORKS; FILL FACTOR; HONEY COMBS; KIRCHHOFF; MAXIMUM POWER; NEWTON-RAPHSON ALGORITHM; NONLINEAR NATURE; PARTIAL SHADING; PV MODULES; REVERSE VOLTAGES; SERIES-PARALLEL;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ALGORITHM; NONLINEARITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 79955664949     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.02.052     Document Type: Article

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