This site presents the main research activity of Dr. Ioan-Viorel Banu. Main aspects covered are the power engineering field and renewable energy sources, especially photovoltaic (PV) sources.
PV technology is currently one of the most developed renewable energy resources being scalable from residential to commercial applications.
Challenges related to development and enforcement of PV systems requires simulation tools able to modeling and analyzing the performance and the behavior of PV panels.
Through modeling and simulation of PV systems is determined the best compromise in design phases.
Finding the balance between efficiency and cost of PV components is an extremely important aspect for widespread adoption of this technology.
Simulation is an effective and efficient way to analyze the performance of the PV systems. Development of a PV array model for PV system simulation it is very important because the PV generator is the main component of a PV system.
The PV array simulators are used for components evaluation of the PV systems to avoid the expensive and time-consuming field-testing process.