Intermittent FOCV Using an I-V Curve Tracer for Minimizing Energy Lossopen access
- Authors
- Im, Yun Chan; Kwak, Seung Soo; Park, Jonghyun; Kim, Yong Sin
- Issue Date
- 10월-2021
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- maximum power point tracking (MPPT); fractional open-circuit voltage (FOCV); photovoltaic (PV); I-V curve; energy harvesting
- Citation
- APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, v.11, no.19
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 19
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/144635
- DOI
- 10.3390/app11199006
- ISSN
- 2076-3417
- Abstract
- Conventional fractional open-circuit voltage (FOCV) methods in maximum power point tracking (MPPT) are widely adopted for their simple structure and low computing power requirements. However, under mismatch and environmental changing conditions, the FOCV methods introduce a large amount of energy loss due to their maximum power point being fixed at the initial setup. To reduce energy loss, the intermittent FOCV MPPT proposed in this paper regularly refreshes all the parameters for each condition in time by using an I-V curve tracer. The proposed intermittent FOCV consists of two phases: the scan and set phases. In scan phase, the I-V curve of a photovoltaic (PV) cell is scanned and its power is calculated. In set phase, the global MPP of the PV cell is extracted and set by controlling the 8-bit capacitance array. Simulation and calculation based on experimental results with a single PV cell show that the energy loss of the proposed intermittent FOCV under daily temperature and illuminance distributions decreased by up to 99.9% compared to that of the conventional FOCV.
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