Overview of Maximum Power Point Tracking Control Methods for PV Systems

Babaa, Saleh Elkelani; Armstrong, Matthew; Pickert, Volker

doi:10.4236/jpee.2014.28006

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“…The resulting electric current continues as long as the light continues to strike the surface of the PV cell. The load has to have an optimum value where the generated electric power of the PV cell is the maximum [1,2]. A PV module comprises a number of series-connected PV cells in order to amass more energy than that which is converted by a single PV cell.…”

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Series Connected Photovoltaic Cells—Modelling and Analysis

2017

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As solar energy costs continue to drop, the number of large-scale deployment projects increases, and the need for different analysis models for photovoltaic (PV) modules in both academia and industry rises. This paper proposes a modified equivalent-circuit model for PV modules. A PV module comprises several series-connected PV cells, to generate more electrical power, where each PV cell has an internal shunt resistance. Our proposed model simplifies the standard one-diode equivalent-circuit (SEC) model by removing the shunt resistance and including its effect on the diode part of the circuit, while retaining the original model accuracy. Our proposed equivalent circuit, called here a modified SEC (MSEC), has less number of circuit elements. All of the PV cells are assumed operating under the same ambient conditions where they share the same electric voltage and current values. To ensure the simplification did not come at a reduction in the accuracy of the SEC model, we validate our MSEC model by simulating both under the same conditions, calculate, and compare their current/voltage (I/V) characteristics. Our results validate the accuracy of our model with the difference between the two models falling below 1%. Therefore, the proposed model can be adopted as an alternative representation of the equivalent circuit for PV cells and modules.

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Series Connected Photovoltaic Cells—Modelling and Analysis

2017

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“…This part tracks the MPP with great accuracy and brings down the steady state error. The environmental changes are also countered by fine tuning loop created by some intelligent and fast responded search spaces [27][28][29][30][31]. The practical scenarios are also considered by the researchers.…”

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“…The soft computing technologies are showing great response under partial shading and continuously changing irradiation conditions. Some hybrid methods are already implemented for practical application showing high convergence speed and tracking the maximum point on PV curve with ease [26][27][28][29][30][31].…”

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A Comprehensive Review on Grid-TiedSolar Photovoltaic System

Kumar

Gupta

2017

JGE

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Energy generation is facing a big challenge for meeting the load demand during peak hours. Power utilities are heavily depending on fossil fuels due to limited resources of non renewable energy generation. Therefore researchers and scientists are looking towards some distributed generators (DGs) to supply extra power during peak hours of energy curve. Solar power gives them an extra sniff to meet the load demand in that period. As a consequence grid-tied solar Photovoltaic (PV) system catches the eyes of researchers and industrialist mainly for reducing the burden of fossil fuel energy generation. Single stage or two stages PV systems are applicable for grid interconnection with or without battery backup. Double stage system is generally suggested for practical applications as it holds a benefit of power quality improvement. This article presents a comprehensive review on grid-tied solar PV system. The complete architecture of the grid-tied PV system includes the construction of PV array, MPPT methods, DC-DC converters, Inverters and control algorithms. Different control techniques and topologies with their merits and demerits for grid-tied systems are thoroughly reviewed. The comparisons of different conventional and advanced control techniques justify the practicability of this architecture. Different topologies and control methods of grid-tied PV system are studied thoroughly to justify the potential of grid-tied PV system.

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“…The authors [12], reviewed the various MPPT techniques, basically this paper can be considered as a bench mark for future work. The overview of MPPT techniques for PV system is given in [13]. For the purpose of transient analysis and comparative study, the IC and P&O MPPT techniques are considered.…”

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Comparative Study of MPPT Methods for Solar PV Driven Induction Motor Load

Pachauri¹,

Chauhan²

2015

IJCA

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The performance of intelligent maximum power point tracking (MPPT) such as Fuzzy logic controller (FLC) and artificial neural network (ANN) are investigated, and compared with traditional constant voltage (CVC), Perturb & observed (P&O) and Incremental conductance (IC) MPPT methods to achieve maximum power point (MPP) through PV system, in this paper. For transient analysis of MPPT assisted photovoltaic (PV) system powered to the induction motor (IM) in various applications. The system performance is investigated for different irradiation conditions in terms of voltage, current, power and rotor speed response. The detailed study is carried on advantages of advance MPPT techniques over the traditional MPPT techniques. The modeling of solar PV system and considered MPPT techniques have been done in MATLAB/ Simulink environment.

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Overview of Maximum Power Point Tracking Control Methods for PV Systems

Cited by 112 publications

References 24 publications

Series Connected Photovoltaic Cells—Modelling and Analysis

Series Connected Photovoltaic Cells—Modelling and Analysis

A Comprehensive Review on Grid-TiedSolar Photovoltaic System

Comparative Study of MPPT Methods for Solar PV Driven Induction Motor Load

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