Incremental conductance MPPT method for PV systems

Authors

A. Safari
Saad MekhilefFollow

Document Type

Conference Item

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Abstract

This paper presents incremental conductance method for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) using DC-DC cuk converter. Comprehensive analysis and simulation of KC85T solar module and equivalent electric circuit are provided while effects of various environmental conditions on the PV module behavior is investigated. In order to fully understand the PV module working specifications fundamental characteristics of PV cells are discussed. Block diagram model of a PV module was developed in Simulink for plotting the curves. KC85T solar module is used in simulations and results indicate speed and accuracy of the proposed system.

Keywords

Cuk Converter, Matlab Simulation, maximum power point tracking (MPPT), Photovoltaic (PV) systems, Solar energy, Block-diagram model, Comprehensive analysis, Environmental conditions, Equivalent electric circuits, Fundamental characteristics, Incremental conductance, Incremental conductance methods, Maximum power point tracking, Photovoltaic systems, PV modules, PV system, Simulink, Solar module, DC power transmission, DC-DC converters, Electric network analysis, MATLAB, Optical flows, Pumps, Photovoltaic effects.

Divisions

fac_eng

Event Title

2011 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE 2011

Event Location

Niagara Falls, ON

Event Type

conference

Additional Information

Conference code: 86889 Export Date: 16 November 2012 Source: Scopus Art. No.: 6030470 CODEN: CCCEF doi: 10.1109/CCECE.2011.6030470 Language of Original Document: English Correspondence Address: Safari, A.; University of Malaya, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia; email: saad@um.edu.my References: Faranda, R., Leva, S., Maugeri, V., MPPT techniques for PV systems: Energetic and cost comparison IEEE 2008; Safari, A., Mekhilef, S., Simulation and hardware implementation of incremental conductance MPPT with direct control method using cuk converter (2011) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58 (4), pp. 1154-1161; Liu, F., Duan, S., Liu, F., Liu, B., Kang, Y., A variable step size inc MPPT method for PV systems (2008) IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 55 (7), pp. 2622-2628. , July; Pandey, A., High-performance algorithms for drift avoidance and fast tracking in solar MPPT system (2008) IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion, 23 (2), pp. 681-689. , June; Yan, Z., Liu, F., Yin, J., Duan, S., (2008) Study on Realizing MPPT by Improved Incremental Conductance Method with Variable Step-size, pp. 547-550. , IEEE; Mutoh, N., Ohno, M., Inoue, T., A method for mppt control while searching for parameters corresponding to weather conditions for pv generation systems (2006) IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 53 (4), pp. 1055-1065. , Senior Member, IEEE Aug; Mekhilef, S., Abdul Kadir, M.N., Voltage control of three-stage hybrid multilevel inverter using vector transformation (2010) IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 25 (10), pp. 2599-2606; González-Longatt, F.M., Model of photovoltaic module in MATLAB 2do Congreso Iberoamericano de Estudiantes de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y Computación (ii Cibelec 2005), pp. 1-5; Chaudhari, V.A., (2005) Automatic Peak Power Tracker for Solar PV Modules Using DSpace Software, , Thesis, Energy centre Maulana Azad national institute of technology July; Mekhilef, S., Kadir, A.N.M., Novel vector control method for three-stage hybrid cascaded multilevel inverter (2011) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58 (4), pp. 1339-1349; Liu, B., Duan, S., Liu, F., Xu, P., Analysis and improvement of maximum power point tracking algorithm based on incremental conductance method for photovoltaic array PEDS IEEE 2007, pp. 637-641; Kuo, Y.-C., Liang, T.-J., Chen, J.-F., Novel maximum-power-point-tracking controller for photovoltaic energy conversion system (2001) IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 48 (3), pp. 594-601. , June; Hussein, K.H., Muta, I., Hoshino, T., Osakada, M., Maximum photovoltaic power tracking: An algorithm for rapidly changing atmospheric conditions (1995) IEE Proc.-gener, Transm. Distrib, 142 (1), pp. 59-64. , Jan; Roman, E., Alonso, R., Ibanez, P., Elorduizapatarietxe, S., Goitia, D., Intelligent PV module for grid-connected PV systems (2006) IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 53 (4), pp. 1066-1073. , August; Ahmed, M.E., Mekhilef, S., Design and implementation of a multilevel three-phase inverter with less switches and low output voltage distortion (2009) Journal of Power Electronics, 9 (4), pp. 593-603. , Jul Sponsors: London Hydro; Agilent Technologies; Auto21; Gap Wireless; IEEE Canadian Foundation