Title
Performance evaluation and characterization of different photovoltaic technologies under the coastal, desertic climate conditions of Lima, Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
International Solar Energy Society
Abstract
This work presents the firsts results of the experimental characterization campaign under outdoor conditions carried out with three different photovoltaic (PV) module technologies: Standard poly-crystalline silicon (poly-Si) aluminum back surface field (Al-BSF) cells, mono-crystalline (c-Si) Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin-Layer (HIT) cells, and amorphous and microcrystalline silicon (a-Si/µc-Si) thin-film tandem cells. We studied the behavior of these PV technologies and their performance in Lima's desertic and coastal climate during the period from May 2019 to July 2019. For this study, a new outdoor-PV laboratory was implemented at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) with the help of the IDEA research group of the University of Jaén (UJA), Spain. The laboratory enables the characterization of PV modules by extracting the electrical parameters from the current-voltage (I-V) curve under outdoor conditions and by measuring the irradiance, the spectral distribution, the panel temperature, and the weather conditions. As a first step, the nominal maximum power of the PV modules under standard test conditions is obtained from the outdoor data. Then, an analysis of the different PV technologies' performance under the local climate conditions is presented by applying the Osterwald and the constant fill factor methods to compare the modeled and experimental maximum power.
Start page
773
End page
783
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería ambiental Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85086824752
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of the ISES Solar World Congress 2019 and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019
ISBN of the container
9783982040813
Conference
ISES Solar World Congress 2019, SWC 2019 and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019
Sponsor(s)
The authors are grateful to the researchers of the IDEA research group from the UJA and of the MatER research group from the PUCP for their support and advice. This work was partially funded by the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC) under the PhD scholarship program (236-2015-FONDECYT). Additional support has been provided by the Peruvian National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT) through Contract N°124-2018-FONDECYT. We are grateful for the support given by the Andalusian International Cooperation Agency-AACID through the project “Emerging with the Sun. Institutional support to the CER-UNI in the field of electricity generation using photovoltaic technology” (Project Nº2012DEC206). Finally, we acknowledge the support provided by the Vicerectory of the PUCP through research activity PO0088 and grant no. 2019-3-0041.
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