Nagy I. Elkalashy^1,*, Ibrahim B. M. Taha²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.42, No.3, pp. 1109-1120, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.023509 - 08 February 2022

Abstract Detection of electric faults in photovoltaic (PV) farms enhances a sustainable service continuity of farm energy generation. In this paper, a probabilistic function is introduced to detect the faults in the PV farms. The conditional probability functions are adopted to detect different fault conditions such as internal string faults, string-to-string faults, and string-to-negative terminal faults. As the diodes are important to make the PV farms in-service safely during the faults, the distribution currents of these faults are evaluated with different concepts of diode consideration as well as without considering any diode installation. This part of… More >

Sherif S. M. Ghoneim^1,*, Amr E. Rashed², Nagy I. Elkalashy¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.30, No.2, pp. 467-479, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016681 - 11 August 2021

Abstract This study uses several artificial intelligence approaches to detect and estimate electrical faults in photovoltaic (PV) farms. The fault detection approaches of random forest, logistic regression, naive Bayes, AdaBoost, and CN2 rule induction were selected from a total of 12 techniques because they produced better decisions for fault detection. The proposed techniques were designed using distributed PV current measurements, plant current, plant voltage, and power. Temperature, radiation, and fault resistance were treated randomly. The proposed classification model was created using the Orange platform. A classification tree was visualized, consisting of seven nodes and four leaves,… More >