An Experimental Study of Drift Caused by Partial Shading Using a Modified DC-(P&O) Technique for a Stand-Alone PV System

Ashish Kumar Singhal, Narendra Singh Beniwal, Ruby Beniwal and Krzysztof Lalik
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Ashish Kumar Singhal: Electrical Engineering Department, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow 226031, Uttar Pradesh, India
Narendra Singh Beniwal: Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jhansi 284128, Uttar Pradesh, India
Ruby Beniwal: Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida 201309, Uttar Pradesh, India
Krzysztof Lalik: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 12, 1-21

Abstract: There is tremendous potential in solar energy to meet future electricity demands. Partial shading (PS) and drift are two major problems that must be addressed simultaneously to achieve the maximum power point (MPP) of a stand-alone PV system, which are discussed in this paper. Both of these factors contribute to the voltage drop due to heavy steady-state oscillation. The partial shading and drift problem are associated with severe rapid changes in the insolation. A modified drift-control perturbation and observation DC-(P&O) approach was investigated using a low-cost programmable hardware solution, i.e., the ARM Cortex M4 32-bit Microcontroller (MC) (STM32F407VGT6), with efficient embedded programming and Waijung block sets for real-time solutions. The experimental setup was accomplished on a 40-watt solar panel. It was found that the proposed method had a significant impact on drift control during abrupt changes in current and voltage caused by shading effects, with the controller conversion efficiency of 80.39% and 94.48% with percentage absolute errors of 7.3 and 7.2 for cases with and without PS and drift, respectively.

Keywords: partial shedding; MATLAB Simulink; PSIM; ARM Cortex M4 32-bit Microcontroller (STM32F407VGT6); modified DC-(P&O) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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