A multicriteria analysis of the potential degradations of a photovoltaic module to assess its robustness

Photovoltaic (PV) modules in service undergo more or less severe degradation depending on their operating environments, ages and technologies. In this work, we investigated the coupled influence of the climatic conditions of operation and of the degree of deterioration of a PV module on its energy production. We considered four silicon PV modules characterized in standard test conditions. The PV conversion is modeled by a single diode model taking into account the presence of a fault. Matlab/Simulink software was used to calculate the energy supplied at a constant load for the PV module with and without defects. The ratio between the energy produced with fault and without fault allowed to quantify the percentage of loss. This loss was plotted according to the degrees of degradation of the short-circuit current Isc, the open-circuit voltage Voc, the series resistance Rs and the shunt resistance Rsh. It is shown that when irradiance is held constant, the energy loss is lower with increasing temperature for Isc and Rsh, and vice versa for Voc and Rs. While the temperature is kept constant, the energy loss is lower when the irradiance increases for Isc and Rsh, and inversely for Voc and Rs. A multicriteria analysis enabled to determine the most robust module among the four ones

Optimization of tilt angle for solar panel: Case study Tunisia

This paper is a comparisation study between an experimental data and Matlab simulation of output PV characteristic affected by the orientation and the tilt angle of a photovoltaic solar module with inclined plane and by the dimension of the panel. The PV panel was rotated towards the east, south and west and positioned for the angles 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°. In this position, the values of current, voltage and power are measured. In the other side, using the mathematical model to calculate the solar radiation incident on an inclined surface as a function of the tilt angle was developed in MATLAB/SIMULINK model. The optimum angles were determined as positions in which maximum values of solar irradiation and maximum power were registered to characterize the P-V and V-I photovoltaic panel

Phenomenological modeling and intensification of texturing/grinding-assisted solvent oil extraction: case of date seeds (Phoenix dactylifera L.)

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Implementing a sol-gel route to adjust the structural and dielectric characteristics of Bi and Fe co-doped BaTiO3 ceramics

The present work explores the impact of Fe insertion on the physical properties of Ba0.95Bi0.05Ti1-xFexO3 (x = 0.025, 0.050, and 0.075) prepared via sol gel method. The resulting samples crystallize in the tetragonal structure with space group P4mm and their morphological features point out the variation of the microstructure with Fe content. In turn, the dielectric constant versus temperature plot reveals the existence of two transition phases: the first one is ferroelectric-paraelectric transition phase (TF-P) and the second one is ferroelectric orthorhombic - ferroelectric tetragonal phase (TO-T). Analysis of conductivity curves using Jonscher’s augmented equation (for x = 0.025) and Jonscher’s power law (for x = 0.075) suggests the Non-Overlapping Small Polaron Tunneling (NSPT) model as a conduction mechanism.publishe

Effects of partial manganese substitution by cobalt on the physical properties of Pr_(0.7)Sr_(0.3)Mn_(1-x)Co_(x)O_(3) (0 = x=0.15) manganites

© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI This research was funded by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCINN), grant number PID2021-123112OBC21.We have investigated the structural, magnetic, and electrical transport properties of Pr_(0.7)Sr_(0.3)Mn_(1-x)Co_(x) O_(3) nanopowders (x = 0, 0.05, 0.10 and 0.15). The Pechini Sol-gel method was used to synthesize these nanopowders. X-ray diffraction at room temperature shows that all the nano powders have an orthorhombic structure of Pnma space group crystallography. The average crystallite size of samples x = 0, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15 are 33.78 nm, 29 nm, 33.61 nm, and 24.27 nm, respectively. Semi-quantitative chemical analysis by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) confirms the expected stoichiometry of the sample. Magnetic measurements indicate that all samples show a ferromagnetic (FM) to paramagnetic (PM) transition with increasing temperature. The Curie temperature T-C gradually decreases (300 K, 270 K, 250 K, and 235 K for x = 0, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15, respectively) with increasing Co concentrations. The M-H curves for all compounds reveal the PM behavior at 300 K, while the FM behavior characterizes the magnetic hysteresis at low temperature (5 K). The electrical resistivity measurements show that all compounds exhibit metallic behavior at low temperature (T T rho), for which the electronic transport can be explained by the variable range hopping model and the adiabatic small polaron hopping model. All samples have significant magnetoresistance (MR) values, even at room temperature. This presented research provides an innovative and practical approach to develop materials in several technological areas, such as ultra-high density magnetic recording and magneto resistive sensors.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific ResearchDepto. de Física de MaterialesFac. de Ciencias FísicasTRUEpu