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    Shading fault detection in a grid-connected PV system using vertices principal component analysis
    (Elsevier, 2021) Rouani, Lahcene; Harkat, Mohamed Faouzi; Kouadri, Abdelmalek; Mekhilef, Saad
    Partial shading severely impacts the performance of the photovoltaic (PV) system by causing power losses and creating hotspots across the shaded cells or modules. Proper detection of shading faults serves not only in harvesting the desired power from the PV system, which helps to make solar power a reliable renewable source, but also helps promote solar versus other fossil fuel electricity-generation options that prevent making climate change targets (e.g. 2015’s Paris Agreement) achievable. This work focuses primarily on detecting partial shading faults using the vertices principal component analysis (VPCA), a data-driven method that combines the simplicity of its linear model and the ability to consider the uncertainties of the different measurements of a PV system in an interval format. Data from a gridconnected monocrystalline PV array, installed on the rooftop of the Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (PEARL), University of Malaya, Malaysia, have been used to train the VPCA model. To prove the effectiveness of this VPCA method, four partial shading patterns have been created. The obtained performance has, then, been tested against a regular PCA. In addition to its ability to acknowledge the uncertainty of a PV system, the VPCA method has shown an enhanced performance of detecting partial shading fault in comparison with the standard PCA. Also, included in the article is an extension of the contribution plot diagnosis-based method, of the Q-statistic, to the interval-valued case aiming to pinpoint the out-of-control variables.
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    A novel global MPPT technique based on squirrel search algorithm for PV module under partial shading conditions
    (Elsevier, 2021) Fares, Dalila; Fathi, Mohamed; Shams, Immad; Mekhilef, Saad
    The partial shading condition (PSC) makes it challenging for the PV system to harvest maximum power via maximum power point tracking (MPPT). Various MPPT algorithms based on bio-inspired optimization methods were proposed in the literature. The mechanism employed by these algorithms varies from one to another, making them perform differently when tracking the GMPP. This paper introduces a novel MPPT technique based on the improved squirrel search algorithm (ISSA). The performance of the proposed ISSA improved the tracking time by 50% in comparison with the conventional SSA algorithm. Similarly, the proposed method has also been compared with popular Genetic algorithm (GA), and particle swarm optimization (PSO). The results proved the ability of the proposed algorithm in tracking the GMPP with faster convergence and fewer power oscillations in comparison. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed ISSA based MPPT have been validated experimentally, and the results clearly demonstrate its capability in tracking the GMPP with an average efficiency of 99.48% and average tracking time of 0.66 s.