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. 2023 Feb 23:47:109007.
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109007. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Outdoor and synthetic performance data for PV devices concerning the weather conditions and capacitor values of I-V tracer

C D Londoño  1 , J B Cano  1 , F Jaramillo  2 , J A Valencia  1 , E Velilla  1   2
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Outdoor and synthetic performance data for PV devices concerning the weather conditions and capacitor values of I-V tracer

C D Londoño et al. Data Brief. .

Abstract

This article presents the outdoor and synthetic performance data concerning the main electrical parameters estimated from the I-V curve for three photovoltaic technologies (HIT, m-Si and CIGS) and the weather conditions (irradiance, ambient and panel temperature). Synthetic data were generated by simulating in OpenModelica software the impact of weather conditions on device performance, considering an irradiance range between 50 and 1300 W/m2. The outdoor data corresponds to the performance of the evaluated PV modules in outdoor tests in Medellin-Colombia for ten months using capacitive I-V tracers. In both cases, different capacitor values were considered to evaluate the effect on the I-V curve behavior of devices.

Keywords: Capacitive I-V tracers; I-V curves; Outdoor tests; Photovoltaic devices performance; Weather conditions.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Laboratory for performance characterization of photovoltaic devices in outdoor conditions, Sede de Investigación Universitaria – SIU, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
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Flowchart of simulating process in OpenModelica using the python script “Generate_Synthetic_Data_OpenModelica.py”.
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Sensors for measuring weather conditions. Panel (a) corresponds to irradiance sensor, panel (b) to panel temperature sensor and panel (c) to ambient temperature sensor.
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Capacitive I-V tracer. Panel (a) corresponds to the designed electronic circuit to trace the I-V curve considering the capacitive technique. Panel (b) shows the developed prototype to record the I-V curves in outdoor conditions using an embedded computer to automate the process.
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Fig. 5
Schematic diagram of the experimental setup for measuring real I-V curves in outdoor conditions and weather variables.
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Fig. 6
Circuit diagram used in OpenModelica by python scripting.
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