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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025)

Published: December 16, 2025

Pages: 136-144

Original Article

A New Static PV Array Reconfiguration for Increasing Maximum Power, Case Study: Al-Nahrain University

Anas Mahmood 1
1Department of Electronic and Communications Engineering, College of Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq
History
  • Received: January 4, 2024
  • Revised: February 3, 2024
  • Accepted: February 23, 2024
  • Available Online: January 21, 2025
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.21.2.14

Abstract

Enhancing the generated power. Different conventional reconfiguration techniques can be used for this purpose like totalcross- tied (TCT), bridge-linked (BL), and series-parallel (SP) . . . etc. This article propose a new static reconfiguration technique named Row Odd Even reconfiguration (ROE) to increase the maximum power generated from PV array with the effect of partial shading condition. The proposed reconfiguration has been tested on a 3×22 PV array suggested to provide power to the department of electronic and communications engineering at Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq. The results of the proposed reconfiguration are compared with the (SP, TCT, and Zig-zag) in terms of mismatch power losses (MPL), fill factor (FF), and efficiency (η) at the maximum generated power of PV array. In all cases, the performance of the new reconfiguration gave the best performance when compared with (SP, TCT, and Zig-zag). The new reconfiguration achieved an improvement in the maximum power point (MPP) and efficiency about 33%, 28% and 7% when compared with the (SP), (TCT) and (Zig-zag) reconfigurations respectively.

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