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Modeling and Fuzzy MPPT Controller Design for Photovoltaic Module Equipped with a Closed-Loop Cooling System

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Electrical energy generated by a photovoltaic (PV) panel depends heavily on two climatic conditions: total solar irradiance and absolute temperature. If high intensity of the solar illumination contributes positively to increasing electrical power, a high degree of absolute temperature has, by contrast, a negative effect on its electrical characteristic. In this paper, the electrical efficiency provided by a conventional PV panel is enhanced using the proposed photovoltaic thermal (PVT) panel. The latter contains serpentines fed by a water tank, which allows cooling its PV cells at high temperature. Accordingly, the desired enhancement needs two main requirements: an efficient PVT panel model that accurately describes the actual PVT panel behavior and an efficient controller that correctly tracks the maximum power point tracking (MPPT). For this reason, a number of experimental test data is firstly recorded from an actual ISOFOTON I-50-PVT module under different climatic conditions. Afterward, the recorded data are fitted by the Curve Fitting Toolbox (CF-Tool), creating therefore a 2-dimensional lookup table, used in the following step. Next, the fuzzy logic control (FLC) strategy is employed to synthesize the proposed MPPT-FLC controller, which should ensure a good extraction of the maximal electrical power. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed MPPT-FLC controller based on a 2-dimensional lookup table, the obtained performance is compared, in terms of electrical power and duty cycle, to those provided by an MPPT-FLC controller for a conventional PV panel in various climatic conditions.

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The authors would like to thank the Pervasive Artificial Intelligence PAI group of the informatics department of Fribourg–Switzerland—for their valuable suggestions and comments which helped us to improve this paper. Special thanks to Prof. Beét Hirsbrunner and Prof. Michèle Courant.

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  1. Laboratoires des Télécommunications LT, Department of Electronic and Telecommunication, University 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Guelma, Algeria

    M. Bechouat & M. Sedraoui

  2. Laboratory of Electrical Engineering LGEG, University 8 May 1945 of Guelma, Guelma, Algeria

    C.-E. Feraga

  3. Laboratory of Automatic and Informatics of Guelma LAIG, University 8 May 1945 of Guelma, Guelma, Algeria

    M. Aidoud

  4. Research Center in Industrial Technologies, CRTI, Algiers, Algeria

    S. Kahla

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Mohcene Bechouat, Moussa Sedraoui, Chams-Eddine Feraga, Mohammed Aidoud and Sami Kahla contributed equally in the preparation of this manuscript.

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Bechouat, M., Sedraoui, M., Feraga, CE. et al. Modeling and Fuzzy MPPT Controller Design for Photovoltaic Module Equipped with a Closed-Loop Cooling System. J. Electron. Mater. 48, 5471–5480 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-019-07243-1

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