Solar power generation fault diagnosis device and solar power generation fault diagnosis method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11290056-B2
Application number	US-202016997713-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2020
Priority date	Feb 20, 2018
Publication date	Mar 29, 2022
Grant date	Mar 29, 2022

Abstract

A solar power generation fault diagnosis device includes one or more processors configured to perform the following: receiving signals indicating an electrical quantity output from a solar cell to acquire quantity information indicating the electrical quantity output from the solar cell; calculating a first quantity value relating to the electrical quantity based on the quantity information; implementing a low-pass filter unit so as to output a second quantity value from the first quantity value; determining a state of the solar cell based on a result of comparison between the first quantity value and the second quantity value; and outputting the determined state of the solar cell.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A solar power generation fault diagnosis device, comprising one or more processors configured to perform the following:
receiving signals indicating an electrical quantity output from a solar cell to acquire quantity information indicating the electrical quantity output from the solar cell;
calculating a first quantity value relating to the electrical quantity based on the quantity information;
implementing a low-pass filter unit so as to output a second quantity value from the first quantity value;
determining a state of the solar cell based on a result of comparison between the first quantity value and the second quantity value; and
outputting the determined state of the solar cell;
wherein the one or more processors calculate, as the first quantity value, an electric current deviation rate calculated based on a result obtained by dividing an electric current value indicating an amount of electric current output from the solar cell that is a certain solar cell of a plurality of solar cells by an electric current conversion value corresponding to a plurality of electric current values indicating respective amounts of electric current output from the plurality of solar cells.

2. The solar power generation fault diagnosis device according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors determine the state of the solar cell based on a result of determination whether a difference between the first quantity value and the second quantity value is equal to or larger than or is equal to or smaller than a certain value.

3. The solar power generation fault diagnosis device according to claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors determine that the solar cell is in a faulty state when the one or more processors continuously determine that the difference between the first quantity value and the second quantity value is equal to or larger than or is equal to or smaller than the certain value for a certain time period.

4. The solar power generation fault diagnosis device according to claim 1 , wherein the electric current conversion value is any one of:
an average current value that is an average of the plurality of electric current values indicating respective amounts of electric current output from the plurality of solar cells;
a median current value that is a median of the plurality of electric current values indicating respective amounts of electric current output from the plurality of solar cells;
a frequent current value that is an electric current value, which occurs most frequently, of the plurality of electric current values indicating respective amounts of electric current output from the plurality of solar cells; and
a specific average current value that is an average of electric current values excluding specific values from the plurality of electric current values indicating respective amounts of electric current output from the plurality of solar cells.

5. The solar power generation fault diagnosis device according to claim 1 , wherein the low-pass filter is an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter.

6. The solar power generation fault diagnosis device according to claim 1 , wherein the low-pass filter is a finite impulse response (FIR) filter.

7. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a computer program that causes a computer to execute the following:
receiving signals indicating an electrical quantity output from a solar cell to acquire quantity information indicating the electrical quantity output from the solar cell;
calculating a first quantity value relating to the electrical quantity based on the quantity information;
implementing a low-pass filter unit so as to output a second quantity value from the first quantity value;
determining a state of the solar cell based on a result of comparison between the first quantity value and the second quantity value; and
outputting the determined state of the solar cell;
wherein the calculating includes calculating, as the first quantity value, an electric current deviation rate calculated based on a result obtained by dividing an electric current value indicating an amount of electric current output from the solar cell that is a certain solar cell of a plurality of solar cells by an electric current conversion value corresponding to a plurality of electric current values indicating respective amounts of electric current output from the plurality of solar cells.

8. A solar power generation fault diagnosis method implemented by a computer, the method comprising:
receiving signals indicating an electrical quantity output from a solar cell to acquire quantity information indicating the electrical quantity output from the solar cell;
calculating a first quantity value relating to the electrical quantity based on the quantity information;
implementing a low-pass filter unit so as to output a second quantity value from the first quantity value;
determining a state of the solar cell based on a result of comparison between the first quantity value and the second quantity value; and
outputting the determined state of the solar cell;
wherein the calculating includes calculating, as the first quantity value, an electric current deviation rate calculated based on a result obtained by dividing an electric current value indicating an amount of electric current output from the solar cell that is a certain solar cell of a plurality of solar cells by an electric current conversion value corresponding to a plurality of electric current values indicating respective amounts of electric current output from the plurality of solar cells.

Assignees

• Taiyo Yuden Kk

Inventors

• Asanuma Kazuo
• Kurisu Norio

Classifications

• G01R31/56 Primary

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• G01R27/16

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• H02S50/00

  Monitoring or testing of PV systems, e.g. load balancing or fault identification · CPC title

• H02S50/10 Primary

  Testing of PV devices, e.g. of PV modules or single PV cells (testing of semiconductor devices during manufacturing {H10P74/00}) · CPC title

• Y02E10/50

  Photovoltaic [PV] energy · CPC title