Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation of Single Crystalline Photovoltaic Panel Using Real-time Simulation Techniques

Abstract

This paper builds up advancements of optimized model constructions for a single crystalline photovoltaic (PV) panel on a real-time simulator in the view points of improving dynamic model accuracy and boosting computation speed. In addition, several considerations for a power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) simulation are provided to electrically emulate the PV panel with power facilities. The effectiveness of the proposed PHIL simulation method developed on Opal RT's RT-Lab Matlab/Simulink based real-time engineering simulator is verified using experimental results of the proposed PHIL simulation system.