Electric vehicles (EVs) charging algorithms considering a photovoltaic (PV) system have been studied in this paper. The power needed to charge the EVs comes from gridconnected photovoltaic generation or the utility. This work includes the issues such as how to maximize photovoltaic generated power and reduce energy cost of EVs charging, that is important for the integration of efficient EVs cha...

Choosing and implementing a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm in a photovoltaic (PV) system, along with choosing the power converter, constitutes the fundamental basic capabilities of a photovoltaic system. MPPT techniques are implemented in photovoltaic systems to achieve full utilization of PV array output power. Today there is a wide variety of MPPT algorithms, each one has its a...

Photovoltaic emulators (PVE) are power electronic systems able to reproduce the output "CurrentVoltage" characteristics of photovoltaic panels in various operating conditions. They are indispensable for the design and evaluation of the operational components of a photovoltaic energy system, such as battery chargers and Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT). Those emulators prevent the experimenta...

Reconfigurable photovoltaic (PV) systems are of great interest with respect to system designers in order to improve the system’s efficiency and operation. This paper proposes an adaptive reconfiguration scheme to reduce the effect of shadows on solar panels. A method to capture the maximum power point of the photovoltaic (PV) array systemwith the help of DC/DC central converter system is presen...

In this paper utilization of a boost converter for control of photovoltaic power using Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control mechanism is presented. First the photovoltaic module is analyzed using SIMULINK software. For the main aim of this work the buck converter is to be used along with a Maximum Power Point Tracking control mechanism. The MPPT is responsible for extracting the maximum ...

The main asset of this paper is among the uses of fuzzy logic in the engineering sector and especially in the renewable energies as a large alternate of fossil energies, in this paper a PSO-based optimization is used to find the optimal scaling parameters, of a fuzzy logic-based MPPT controller, that maximize the efficiency of a photovoltaic pumping system. The tuning of input and output parame...

The main purpose of this paper is to propose an intelligent fault diagnostic method for photovoltaic (PV) systems. First, Solar Pro software package was used to simulate a photovoltaic system for gathering power generation data of photovoltaic modules during normal operations and malfunctions. Then, the collected power generation data was used to construct matter-element models based on extensi...

Since the penetration of photovoltaic systems in the electrical network is increasing, the need to register and model the contribution of these energy sources, in terms of generated disturbances, quality and amount of available power, is becoming a crucial issue for optimal management of grid. So, this paper, starting from data experimentally recorded on a medium scale photovoltaic system that ...

The impact of wind turbines and photovoltaic systems on network operation and power quality (harmonics, and voltage fluctuations) is very important. The capability of the power system to absorb this perturbation is dependent on the fault level at the point of common coupling. The paper deals with power quality case studies conducted on existing renewable resources-based systems. Voltage fluctua...