RT journal article
T1 Quality inspection of a 2.85 MW PV power plant under mismatch loss due to different classes of PV module installed
A1 Clavijo Blanco, José Antonio
A1 Álvarez Tey, Germán
A1 Saborido, Nieves
A1 Barberá González, José Luis
A1 García López, María del Carmen
A1 Jiménez Castañeda, Rafael
A2 Ingeniería Eléctrica
K1 Mismatch loss
K1 IR thermography
K1 quality inspection
K1 maintenance
K1 performance
AB In this paper, the quality inspection of a Photovoltaic (PV) power plant under a mismatch effect due to the use of 18 different classes of PV modules from 5 different manufacturers is presented. The quality inspection has been carried out by three different tests; a visual inspection, an infrared (IR) thermography inspection and electrical monitoring. More than 800 IR thermography images have been analyzed to cover all PV modules installed. Some inverters have been electrically monitored to measure electrical parameters, being the focus of this paper the output energy. A PV plant database has been studied to calculate a mismatch power factor of the PV arrays connected in the measured inverters. Mismatch power factor, hot spots and the output energy of the measured inverters have been compared. Results showed that output energy is influenced by the existence of mismatching. In some cases, compared inverters showed a power loss of up to 10%.
PB Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal
SN ISSN 2172-038X
YR 2020
FD 2020-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35164
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35164
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-may-2026