An Enhanced Adaptive Perturb and Observe Technique for Efficient Maximum Power Point Tracking Under Partial Shading Conditions

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript entitled: “An Enhanced Adaptive P&O MPPT for Efficient 2 Tracking under Partial Shading Conditions” aims at proposing an Adaptive P&O MPPT well-performant at shading condition.  

The rationale behind the paper is well supported by the literature and clearly explained. The manuscript is easy to read and to follow, and I consider it ready for publication. I have only few comments for the authors:

1) Please, consider the possibility of reducing the number of figures by moving some of them into the supplementary material.

2) I would suggest the authors to mention the future perspectives of this work.

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Reviewer 2 Report

I read the manuscript carefully entitled, ‘An Enhanced Adaptive P&O MPPT for Efficient 3 Tracking under Partial Shading Conditions’. The concept of the manuscript is novel and comes under the scope of Applied Sciences. Authors performed many experiments and case studies which increases the potential of the research work and its practical applicability. The manuscript can be accepted after addressing the comments below.

• The title should be modified and the full form of abbreviations is essential.
• There are many English typing and grammatical errors in the manuscript.
• There are so many figures which are really not essential to describe the research work some figures can be removed or add as a piece of supplementary information my suggestions are as follows: combine Fig 1 and 2; remove Fig 5; Fig 6 as a supplementary; for Fig 7 the text is not visible need to modify. Fig 10-12, 14-16, 18-20 and 21-24 combine.
• Moreover, the manuscript is lacking a recent review of literature authors should cite some recent references.
• In the manuscript authors only describes their results but still, proper discussion of results is essential. Please rewrite this section.
• Technical challenges and future perspectives for the commercial applications need to address by adding a new section before the conclusion.
• After abstract add, one chart describing abbreviations would be better.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Review (recommended major revision)

Authors present an algorithm that is able to track the maximum power points under partial shading conditions, which enables the best nominal performance of a photovoltaic harvesting system. Algorithm was tested under four validation conditions/analyzed. Revisions recommended.

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Round 2

Reviewer 3 Report

Review (accept)

Comments have been mostly addressed.