Impact of fill factor on input current ripple of photovoltaic system

El Khateb, Ahmad H. and Rahim, Nasrudin Abd and Williams, Barry W.; (2016) Impact of fill factor on input current ripple of photovoltaic system. In: 2015 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015. IEEE, ITA, pp. 120-123. ISBN 9781479999828 (https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2015.7418480)

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Abstract

This paper discusses the impact of fill factor on the input current ripple of the photovoltaic module and the loss effect on power extracted. Photovoltaic module's P-V curve produces exponential curve. The curvature of this curve indicates the fill factor of the particular cell; hence, by increasing the fill factor, the available extracted power increases. Yet, this paper states that losses due to photovoltaic current increases by increasing the fill factor.