Performance Comparison Between Commercial Mono-crystalline and Poly-crystalline PV Modules Under LCPV Conditions

摘要

In this work, a theoretical study is presented in the aim to evaluate the performance of two different types of silicon PV modules under Low Concentration Photovoltaic LCPV conditions. For this purpose, this paper describes a mathematical LCPV model implanted in MATLAB/Simulink software. Based on the numerical results, we demonstrate and compare the limitation of using commercial mono-crystalline and poly-crystalline PV modules. We perceive from the characteristic parameters variation, the necessity of using a cooling system to improve the PV modules efficiency.