A hardware field simulator for photovoltaic materials applications

This work, written in 2008, is on a photovoltaic field simulator that is a power electronic device which produces direct voltages and currents. These simulate the behaviour of a photovoltaic field working in arbitrary conditions of solar irradiance and temperature. The most important application of the simulator is the testing of inverters. This work also introduces a new model describing the behaviour of photovoltaic modules of any generation. This is particularly useful to scientists and plant designers as it is based only on the electrical parameters that are always reported in a photovoltaic module s datasheet.

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Alessandro Massi Pavan received his master's degree in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Material Science and Engineering at the University of Trieste (Italy) in 2002 and 2008, respectively. He is currently an independent consultant in the energy sector and holds a post-doc position at the University of Trieste.