A comprehensive review on protection challenges and fault diagnosis in PV systems

DS Pillai, N Rajasekar - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
With the exponential growth in global photovoltaic (PV) power capacity, protection of PV
systems has gained prodigious importance in last few decades. Even with the use of …

Metaheuristic algorithms for PV parameter identification: A comprehensive review with an application to threshold setting for fault detection in PV systems

DS Pillai, N Rajasekar - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Precise model parameters being the prerequisite for realizing accurate PV models,
parameter identification techniques have gained immense interest over the years among the …

A comparative evaluation of advanced fault detection approaches for PV systems

DS Pillai, F Blaabjerg… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Even with the consistent growth in global photovoltaic (PV) capacity, the necessity for fault
detection in PV systems has not been widely addressed regardless of its importance. With …

[HTML][HTML] A critical review of PV systems' faults with the relevant detection methods

K Osmani, A Haddad, T Lemenand, B Castanier… - Energy Nexus, 2023 - Elsevier
PhotoVoltaic (PV) systems are often subjected to operational faults which negatively affect
their performance. Corresponding to different types and natures, such faults prevent the PV …

Fault-tolerant supervisory controller for a hybrid AC/DC micro-grid

M Hosseinzadeh, FR Salmasi - IEEE Transactions on Smart …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a fault-tolerant supervisory controller is proposed for a hybrid ac/dc micro-grid.
In the hybrid micro-grid, dc sources, energy storage, and loads are connected to a main dc …

Design and analysis of transformerless, high step‐up, boost DC‐DC converter with an improved VSS‐RBFA based MPPT controller

CH Basha, C Rani - International Transactions on Electrical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Under partial shading conditions (PSCs), the I‐V curve of PV systems consist of multiple
local maximum power points (MPP's) and one global MPP which is required to extract the …

Improved non-symmetrical puzzle reconfiguration scheme for power loss reduction in photovoltaic systems under partial shading conditions

Z Yang, N Zhang, J Wang, Y Liu, L Fu - Sustainable Energy Technologies …, 2022 - Elsevier
The power output of photovoltaic arrays decreases because of mismatch losses when
working under partial shading conditions, and various static reconfiguration techniques have …

Fast and precise global maximum power point tracking techniques for photovoltaic system

MA Husain, A Jain, A Tariq… - IET Renewable Power …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The multiple power peaks obtained in the power–voltage (P‐V) curve of a photovoltaic string
under partially shaded condition results in a complicated maximum power point tracking …

Islanding fault detection in microgrids—A survey

M Hosseinzadeh, F Rajaei Salmasi - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper provides an overview of islanding fault detection in microgrids. Islanding fault is a
condition in which the microgrid gets disconnected from the microgrid unintentionally due to …

Fault diagnostic methodologies for utility-scale photovoltaic power plants: a state of the art review

Q Navid, A Hassan, AA Fardoun, R Ramzan, A Alraeesi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The worldwide electricity supply network has recently experienced a huge rate of solar
photovoltaic penetration. Grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems range from smaller …