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Online Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) estimation of a solar panel
journal contribution
posted on 2017-05-12, 10:31 authored by Mina Abedi Varnosfaderani, Dani StricklandDani StricklandElectrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) techniques are useful tools for being able to look at the characterisation of solar panels under different conditions and/or with different material components. However EIS analysis is mostly undertaken offline with bespoke equipment. This paper describes a method of undertaking EIS measurement on-line without the use of additional equipment by manipulating the control of the solar panel connected dc-dc power electronic converter. The power electronic control is used to inject an additional low-frequency signal into the circuit and then sweep this frequency across a range to replicate the functionality of the EIS without the need for a separate excitation circuit while maintaining full operational functionality. This paper describes the methodology and presents some experimental results compared with EIS results under the same conditions to illustrate the concept.
Funding
The authors would like to thank the EPSRC and Opal-RT for their contribution to this project.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
VacuumVolume
139Pages
185 - 195Citation
VARNOSFADERANI, M.A. and STRICKLAND, D., 2017. Online Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) estimation of a solar panel. Vacuum, 139, pp. 185-195.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-01-17Publication date
2017-01-16Copyright date
2017Notes
This paper was published in the journal Vacuum and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2017.01.011.ISSN
0042-207XPublisher version
Language
- en