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Vol: 58(72) No: 2 / June 2013 Experimental Determination of Maximum Power Points (MPPs) for Different Types of Photovoltaic Panels Andrea Varga Óbuda University, Doctoral School of Applied Informatics, Budapest, Hungary, phone: +36-1/666-5691, e-mail: varga.andrea@kvk.uni-obuda.hu, web: http://www.uni-obuda.hu/en/faculties-and-schools/doctoral-school-of-applied-informatics Ervin Rácz Óbuda University, Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Power System Department, Budapest, Hungary, phone: +36-1/666-5868, e-mail: racz.ervin@kvk.uni-obuda.hu Péter Kádár Óbuda University, Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Power System Department, Budapest, Hungary, e-mail: kadar.peter@kvk.uni-obuda.hu, web: http://vei.kvk.uni-obuda.hu/ Keywords: Photovoltaic systems, PV panels, electric power generation, characteristics, maximum power point Abstract A simple, clear and fast laboratory experimental method in order to measure and determine maximum power points (MPPs) for different kinds of photovoltaic (PV) panels keeping identical experimental and natural weather conditions for all solar panels in the same time is introduced in this paper. Demonstrating the validity of the process the MPPs for four different PV panels were determined and as experimental results current-voltage (I-V) characteristics and power curves of the panels were also plotted. References [1] Adolf Goetzberger, Christopher Hebling, “Photovoltaic materials, past, present, future”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, vol. 62, no. 1–2, pp. 1–19, April 2000. [2] Dieter Wöhrle, Dieter Meissner, “Organic Solar Cells”, Advanced Materials, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 129–138, March 1991. [3] Yongye Liang, Yue Wu, Danqin Feng, Szu-Ting Tsai, Hae-Jung Son, Gang Li and Luping Yu, “Development of New Semiconducting Polymers for High Performance Solar Cells” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 131, no. 1, pp. 56–57, Dec. 2008. [4] J. Y. Kim, S. H. Kim, H.-H. Lee, K. Lee, W. Ma, X. Gong, A. J. Heeger, “New Architecture for High-Efficiency Polymer Photovoltaic Cells Using Solution-Based Titanium Oxide as an Optical Spacer”, Advanced Materials, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 572–576, March 2006. [5] Antal, G., Lamár, K., “Modern Solutions to Integrated Building Automation Systems”, Proceedings of the International Conference Kandó 2002, Budapest, Hungary, 5 pp., 2002. [6] Lamár, K., Veszprémi, K., “Shaft Sensorless Control of a PMSM Drive with Rectangular Field”, Proceedings of the International Conference Kandó 2002, Budapest, Hungary, 6 pp., 2002. [7] Wendy U. Huynh, Janke J. Dittmer, A. Paul Alivisatos, “Hybrid Nanorod-Polymer Solar Cells”, Science, vol. 295, no. 5564, pp. 2425–2427, March 2002. [8] O. Vetterl, F. Finger, R. Carius, P. Hapke, L. Houben, O. Kluth, A. Lambertz, A. Mück, B. Rech, H. Wagner, “Intrinsic Microcrystalline silicone: A new material for photovoltaics”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, vol. 62, no. 1–2, pp. 97–108, April 2000. [9] Armin Räuber, “Napelem technológiák és jellemzőik”, SOLTRAIN Conference proceedings, Lecture #G04., 5 pp. (in Hungarian). [10] Christiana Honsberg and Stuart Bowden, “PV CDROM”, pveducation.org. [11] A. Varga, E. Rácz and P. Kádár, “New Experimental Method for Measuring Power Characteristics of Photovoltaic Cells at Given Light Irradiation”, Proceedings of IEEE 8th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, SACI 2013, Timisoara, Romania, pp. 405–409, 2013. [12] http://www.degerenergie.de/en/. [13] Panasonic-HIP-214NKHE5 datasheet containing SANYO HIP-215NKHE5 and HIP-214NKHE5 solar cell parameters given by the manufacturer, www.sanyo-solar.eu. [14] KORAX KS-240P datasheet containing data for KORAX solar cells, www. koraxsolar.com [15] Renesola: http://renesola.com/module?t=en#.UkVyUxBihM0. [16] Upsolar monocrystalline solar panel with 72 solar cells installed: http://upsolar.com/eu/products/list.aspx?type=116. |