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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Energy Res.
Sec. Solar Energy
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1432834

Mitigation of Mismatch Losses in Solar PV Systems -A Hybrid L-Shape Propagated Array Configuration Approach

Provisionally accepted
Belqasem Aljafari Belqasem Aljafari 1Devakirubakaran S Devakirubakaran S 2*Praveen Kumar Balachandran Praveen Kumar Balachandran 3Sudhakar Babu Thanikanti Sudhakar Babu Thanikanti 4
  • 1 Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia
  • 2 Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • 3 Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India
  • 4 Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

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    There has been a global expansion of solar electricity during the past decades. Solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation is not only simple but also environmentally benign and cost-effective. This is most affordable and suitable power source for the rural areas. PV power output is unavoidably suppressed when there is partial shade. There were numerous MPPT, array, and reconfiguration approaches that were available in earlier times. The authors have previously described an L-shaped propagating array arrangement. The L-shape configuration creates the PV rows based on the chess game coin. The knight coin of this game will move in the shape like "L", that is inspired on new array configurations. This work discusses the hybridization of the L-shape configuration with the conventional array configurations. The proposed hybrid L-shape configuration has been developed in a MATLAB/Simulink, where the conventional configuration and the hybrid configurations are validated in the different test conditions. The test conditions are created based on the all possible realword shading patterns. The power generation, mismatch losses and characteristic curves were attained for each method and this work presents all these validations with the inferences. Also, the justification for the suitable array configuration with

    Keywords: Bridgelink, honeycomb, Mismatch loss, Partial shading, PV reconfiguration, TCT

    Received: 14 May 2024; Accepted: 29 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Aljafari, S, Balachandran and Thanikanti. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Devakirubakaran S, Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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