Using CAD software to simulate PV energy yield: Predicting the charge yield of solar cells incorporated into a PV powered consumer product under 3D-irradiation conditions

N.H. Reich; W.G.J.H.M. van Sark; A.H.M.E. Reinders; H. de Wit

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411250

Using CAD software to simulate PV energy yield: Predicting the charge yield of solar cells incorporated into a PV powered consumer product under 3D-irradiation conditions

N.H. Reich, W.G.J.H.M. van Sark, A.H.M.E. Reinders, H. de Wit

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Abstract

We describe an innovative method to simulate the energy yield of photovoltaic (PV) cells under complex, three dimensional (3D) irradiation conditions by exploiting Computer Aided Design (CAD) software functionality. This can significantly facilitate PV energy yield simulations, because CAD software offers powerful ray-tracing and rendering features of 3D objects and sceneries. The concept is demonstrated by simulating the charge yields of a Product-Integrated PV (PIPV) solar cell located in an indoor environment. To this end, indoor CAD sceneries are ray-traced to render grey-scale or red-green-blue (RGB) encoded images. PV power output is then determined by translating the CAD-rendered images back into numerical data of irradiation, distributed on a 2D PV surface having a pre-defined cell-interconnection scheme. Although the concept is a very promising one, further software development and research is required to increase computational performance at high accuracy levels whilst facilitating software use.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1291-1296
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4244-2950-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-2949-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411250
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2009
Event	34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009 - Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, United States Duration: 7 Jun 2009 → 12 Jun 2009 Conference number: 34

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Name	Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
Publisher	IEEE
Volume	2009
ISSN (Print)	0160-8371

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Conference	34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009
Abbreviated title	PVSC
Country/Territory	United States
City	Philadelphia
Period	7/06/09 → 12/06/09

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Reich, N. H., van Sark, W. G. J. H. M., Reinders, A. H. M. E., & de Wit, H. (2009). Using CAD software to simulate PV energy yield: Predicting the charge yield of solar cells incorporated into a PV powered consumer product under 3D-irradiation conditions. In 2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009 (pp. 1291-1296). Article 5411250 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference; Vol. 2009). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411250

Reich, N.H. ; van Sark, W.G.J.H.M. ; Reinders, A.H.M.E. et al. / Using CAD software to simulate PV energy yield : Predicting the charge yield of solar cells incorporated into a PV powered consumer product under 3D-irradiation conditions. 2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2009. pp. 1291-1296 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference).

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Reich, NH, van Sark, WGJHM, Reinders, AHME & de Wit, H 2009, Using CAD software to simulate PV energy yield: Predicting the charge yield of solar cells incorporated into a PV powered consumer product under 3D-irradiation conditions. in 2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009., 5411250, Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, vol. 2009, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1291-1296, 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 7/06/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411250

Using CAD software to simulate PV energy yield: Predicting the charge yield of solar cells incorporated into a PV powered consumer product under 3D-irradiation conditions. / Reich, N.H.; van Sark, W.G.J.H.M.; Reinders, A.H.M.E. et al.
2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2009. p. 1291-1296 5411250 (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference; Vol. 2009).

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Reich NH, van Sark WGJHM, Reinders AHME, de Wit H. Using CAD software to simulate PV energy yield: Predicting the charge yield of solar cells incorporated into a PV powered consumer product under 3D-irradiation conditions. In 2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. 2009. p. 1291-1296. 5411250. (Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference). doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411250

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