MATHEMATICAL MODELING, SIMULATION AND VALIDATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS

Ravinder Kumar, R Muralidharan

Abstract: In this paper, an analysis has been done on the effect of varying physical and environmental factors on the I-V (current voltage characteristics) of a photovoltaic cell using Matlab-Simulink. A standalone model has been created based on the mathematical relations between various parameters in photovoltaic cells made up of a single diode, a series resistance, and a shunt resistance. To validate the developed model, the values from I-V characteristics of this model have been compared with the experimental results. In addition, simulations have been done for I-V characteristics for different temperature and resistance values. The results obtained are analyzed and presented in this paper

Keywords: Solar cell, Modeling, Matlab-simulink

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0310025