Title: Comparative study of MPPT techniques for solar PV-based system

Authors: Ram Singh Yadav; Dheeraj Kumar Dhaked; Ashish Jaiswal

Addresses: Rajasthan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, India; Department of Electrical Engineering, Rajasthan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhankrota, Ajmer Road, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302026, India ' Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, India; Department of Electrical Engineering, Rajasthan Technical University, Rawatbhata Road, Kota, Rajasthan 324010, India ' Rajasthan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, India; Department of Electrical Engineering, Rajasthan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhankrota, Ajmer Road, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302026, India

Abstract: Electrical power generated from solar power plant is growing enormously due to rapidly growing demand, increasing usage of green and environment friendly energy sources and insufficiency of conventional energy resources like coal, gas and fossil fuels, etc. The relevance of renewable like wind and solar photo voltaic (PV) energy is rapidly growing. Renewable resources of energy are helpful in cutting the environment pollution. Because of irregular nature of renewable energy sources, the parametric control is needed in distributed generation (DG). This manuscript aims to enhance the sum of generated power from the solar PV arrangement. In a projected study, solar PV is used as source for generation of electrical power. The comparative studies for optimisation of the energy conversion efficiency of perturb and observe (P&O) and variable step size incremental conductance (VSS-IC)-based optimisation techniques are investigated on a MATLAB simulation-based system. The efficiency for this system without MPPT method is 83.76% and the output power for VSS-IC controller is 1,256 watts and P&O method is 1,113 watts with the efficiency of VSS-IC is 96.61% and P&O is 85.61%. Simulation investigation and results of PV arrangement are made to get its characteristics.

Keywords: maximum power point techniques; optimisation; perturb and observe; P&O; power converters; solar photo voltaic; solar PV.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESD.2021.116866

International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2021 Vol.20 No.3/4, pp.366 - 380

Received: 08 Mar 2020
Accepted: 14 Oct 2020

Published online: 05 Aug 2021 *

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