TITLE:
Variability of Performance Indices of Photovoltaic Solar Panels in Operating Conditions in the Littoral Zone of Cameroon
AUTHORS:
Regine Fouda Bella, Salomé Ndjakomo Essiane, Simon Koumi Ngoh, Boris Fouotsap
KEYWORDS:
Photovoltaic Panel, Performance, Synthetic Efficiency
JOURNAL NAME:
Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering,
Vol.10 No.3,
July
1,
2021
ABSTRACT: Photovoltaic cells are generally manufactured under
standard test conditions. The operating
conditions, very often induce performance losses different from those
initially given by the manufacturer. This article presents an experimental
acquisition and analysis system that integrates the synthetic efficiency ratio (SER) as a hybrid analysis tool to evaluate
the performance of a monocrystalline photovoltaic
solar panel, in this case the LW-MS90 panel in the city of Douala. The
meteorological data obtained experimentally was used to evaluate these
performances according to the manufacturer’s model in MATLAB/Simulink. By comparison
with the experimental performances, the results quantify through a
certain number of indices, a minimal power drop according to the acquired
irradiance estimated at 3.45%. The interest of this approach is to contribute
to the prediction of the operating performance of PV panels in the installation
phase in non-standard areas.