An Extremely Low-Cost Multi-Panel PV Emulator for Research and Education

Sanchit Mishra; Siddharth Raju; Abhijit Kshirsagar; Ned Mohan

doi:10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557361

An Extremely Low-Cost Multi-Panel PV Emulator for Research and Education

Sanchit Mishra
, Siddharth Raju
, Abhijit Kshirsagar
, Ned Mohan

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Photovoltaic (PV) emulators are necessary tools for teaching research and development when actual PV panels cannot be used. Emulation can be used when design parameters such as size and quantity of PV resources required exceed the capacity of laboratories. Emulation schemes available today use expensive hardware and/or require software licenses. This paper presents a new PV emulator using the extremely low-cost real-time digital controller platform 'Workbench'. The proposed scheme uses low-cost hardware built around a single DSP and a DC bench power supply to emulate PV panels which can be used to test other equipment such as grid-tied inverters, and/or MPPT controllers. The proposed scheme is modular, in that multiple such emulators can be externally series/parallel connected. Each emulator can also be configured to emulate a combination of series/parallel connected PVs.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	4760-4765
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479973118
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557361
State	Published - Dec 3 2018
Event	10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018 - Portland, United States Duration: Sep 23 2018 → Sep 27 2018

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Name	2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018

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Other	10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	9/23/18 → 9/27/18

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Low-cost
Modular
Photovoltaic
Re-programmable
Real-time
Reconfigurable

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Mishra, S., Raju, S., Kshirsagar, A., & Mohan, N. (2018). An Extremely Low-Cost Multi-Panel PV Emulator for Research and Education. In 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018 (pp. 4760-4765). Article 8557361 (2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557361

An Extremely Low-Cost Multi-Panel PV Emulator for Research and Education. / Mishra, Sanchit; Raju, Siddharth; Kshirsagar, Abhijit et al.
2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 4760-4765 8557361 (2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018).

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Mishra, S, Raju, S, Kshirsagar, A & Mohan, N 2018, An Extremely Low-Cost Multi-Panel PV Emulator for Research and Education. in 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018., 8557361, 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 4760-4765, 10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018, Portland, United States, 9/23/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557361

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