Optimum Energy Management of a Photovoltaic Water Pumping System

Fuzzy Energy Management for Photovoltaic Water Pumping System

“…Others works concentrated in water pump modeling and control [10] or in the system modeling and simulation of photovoltaic generators and converters used to feed asynchronous machines actuating a centrifugal pump [11,12]. Researchers also established some management algorithms to the optimum use of photovoltaic energy [13], using intelligent tools.…”

“…In this sense, Fuzzy logic has been used for the energy management in photovoltaic based systems [13,14]. Indeed, in autonomous photovoltaic installations, which are composed of photovoltaic panels, a battery bank and converters, fuzzy logic has been used to optimize the photovoltaic energy generated, to guarantee the installation' autonomy, ensure a safe operation for the battery' bank and supply the loads [13,15].…”

“…Indeed, in autonomous photovoltaic installations, which are composed of photovoltaic panels, a battery bank and converters, fuzzy logic has been used to optimize the photovoltaic energy generated, to guarantee the installation' autonomy, ensure a safe operation for the battery' bank and supply the loads [13,15]. Moreover, this tool has been used in renewable based installations, which supply controllable loads [14,16] and constant critical and non-critical loads [17].…”

“…[18]. This tool has also been used for controlling the internal climatic variables in greenhouses [19] and for the energy management of water pumping installations, in which optimum algorithms called Fuzzy Management Algorithms (FMA) have been used to maximize the pumped water [13,15,20].…”

“…In fact, in some problems, it is complicated to give an exact value for criteria, such as in case of energy management [13,14]. Thus, fuzzy logic is considered a good method for these types of problems, since it gives the possibility to describe system behaviors, or decide control decisions using linguistic rules [20,21].…”