PV Solar System with Multiple Input Power Converter Operating in Discontinous Conduction Mode and MPPT Control
Conference: Intelec 2013 - 35th International Telecommunications Energy Conference, SMART POWER AND EFFICIENCY
10/13/2013 - 10/17/2013 at Hamburg, Deutschland
Proceedings: Intelec 2013
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Jiang, Yuncong; Qahouq, Jaber A. Abu (The University of Alabama, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA)
Orabi, Mohamed (APEARC, Aswan University, Aswan 81542, Egypt)
Youssef, Mohamed (ECSE Department, UOIT, Oshawa, ON, Canada)
Abstract:
A PV solar system architecture with Multi-Input Single-Inductor power converter and Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control (MISI-MPPT) is presented in the paper. A multi-input single-inductor (MISI) power converter topology is used to interface multiple PV panels or cells with the load in the PV system. A digital controller is used to operate the MISI power converter in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) and perform MPPT for each individual PV input. The result is reduced cost and size of the system while achieving high tracking efficiency. Simulation model is developed by using Matlab(r)/Simulink(r) software package and simulation results are obtained and presented in this paper.