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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS
Volume 137, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.107805
Keywords
Photovoltaics; Large-scale PV array; MPPT; P&O; Open-circuit voltage estimation method
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This paper proposes a robust modified perturb and observe (MPO) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm by dividing the solar module/cell P-V curve into four operating areas and concentrating the small step-size search area to 15% of the whole P-V operation region. The proposed algorithm improves the tracking efficiency of the PV system.
Considering the vast improvement of photovoltaics (PVs) efficiency, this paper proposes a robust modified perturb and observe (MPO) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm. The control strategy of the proposed MPO-MPPT algorithm is based on dividing the solar module/cell P-V curve into four operating areas depending on the open-circuit voltage estimation method. The two areas, which are located far from the maximum power point (MPP), utilize large voltage fixed step-size that improves the tracking speed of the PV system. Otherwise, a small step-size P&O MPPT algorithm is used to minimize the steady-state oscillations for the other two areas due to the close locations of these areas to the MPP. As well, the proposed tracking algorithm eliminates the necessity of wide small step-size iterations by concentrating small step-size search area to 15% of the whole P-V operation region. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed MPO algorithm compared with the conventional MPPT techniques; sinusoidal, ramp, and one-day (10 hr.) irradiance profiles are applied to the solar PV system. The proposed MPO-MPPT algorithm based solar PV system has been built using MATLAB/SIMULINK software. Obviously, the system results confirm the theoretical analysis of the proposed algorithm, which boosts the PV system tracking efficiency to 99.7%.
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