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improve irradiance response #74

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mikofski opened this issue May 4, 2018 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #91
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improve irradiance response #74

mikofski opened this issue May 4, 2018 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #91

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@mikofski
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mikofski commented May 4, 2018

Problem:

When fitting parameters there seems to be a systematic bias with irradiance, typically increasing. This may be caused by PVMismatch's constant shunt resistance. Other models such as SAM/DeSoto 5-parameter or PVSyst have a shunt resistance that is a function of irradiance.

Shunt resistance

PVPVMC on De Soto “Five-Parameter” Module Model

Rsh = Rsh_0 * E0 / Ee

Note: irradiance is in the denominator so as irradiance increases the shunt resistance decreases.

Proposal:

add a factor to account for irradiance bias base on DeSoto 5-parameter model

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@mikofski Have you ever seen evidence that this change in shunt resistance is actually an irradiance phenomenon rather than a temperature phenomenon?

I have been fitting many curves in the mPERT outdoor datasets, and it's hard to say what the root cause of the change in shunt resistance is, because the temperature and irradiance are strongly correlated positively in these datasets.

Perhaps there are some IEC 61853-1 matrix measurements that clearly show the trend in the irradiance dimension but not in the temperature direction?

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mikofski commented Sep 29, 2018

Both the PVSyst and DeSoto/CEC models have an irradiance dependence for shunt resistance although I don't know what the physical explanation is. Kyumin didn't discuss it at all in his presentations, only his proposed temperature dependence of series resistance due to metallization. I agree there is a strong correlation between temperature and irradiance, so maybe the PVSyst and DeSoto models use shunt resistance as a proxy for temperature? They also have band gap temperature correction (DeSoto) or gamma (diode ideality factor) temperature correction (PVSyst) so maybe not?

Those are both also single diode models, not two diode models like PVMismatch. I also hoped that we would discover some new algorithm that would use Isat2 to compensate for irradiance. Oh well.

Regardless, the relative error in Pmp increases as irradiance decreases for every temperature without some correction. @chetan I made some corrections, so I'll update this PR soon

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