Revista UIS Ingenierías

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2022): Revista UIS Ingenierías
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Performance Comparison of Electrical Indicators for Detection of PID in PV panels

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  • Jhoan Sebastian Parra-Quiroga,
  • Édinson Franco-Mejía ,
  • Martha Lucía Orozco-Gutiérrez ,
  • Juan David Bastidas-Rodriguez
Jhoan Sebastian Parra-Quiroga
Universidad del Valle
Édinson Franco-Mejía
Universidad del Valle
Martha Lucía Orozco-Gutiérrez
Universidad del Valle
Juan David Bastidas-Rodriguez
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18273/revuin.v21n3-2022003

Published 2022-06-15

Keywords

  • Potential Induced Degradation (PID),
  • degradation detection,
  • electrical indicators,
  • single diode model,
  • I-V curve,
  • PV panel,
  • temperature,
  • irradiance,
  • fill factor,
  • shunt resistance,
  • current ratio,
  • open-circuit voltage
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Parra-Quiroga, J. S., Franco-Mejía , Édinson, Orozco-Gutiérrez , M. L. ., & Bastidas-Rodriguez, J. D. . (2022). Performance Comparison of Electrical Indicators for Detection of PID in PV panels. Revista UIS Ingenierías, 21(3), 21–32. https://doi.org/10.18273/revuin.v21n3-2022003

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Abstract

Potential-induced degradation (PID) in photovoltaic (PV) solar panels occurs due to the operation in strings that are part of large installations, and under determinate voltage and environmental operating conditions, especially humidity and temperature. The PID can cause decreasing of up to 40 % in the generated power capacity of the PV panel and, in the most severe cases, the end of its lifetime. When this phenomenon is detected in time, the causes can be corrected and, the effect on the PV panels could be susceptible to a reversibility process. This article presents a comparative analysis of the performance of four electrical indicators to detect PID reported in recent literature. This study is carried out by simulation, using the single-diode model to represent the PV panel, and under different irradiance and temperature conditions. The results show the advantages of an indicator based on normalized parallel resistance, in terms of its practicality and low sensitivity to changes in irradiance and temperature conditions.

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