scholarly journals Photovoltaic Power System with an Interleaving Boost Converter for Battery Charger Applications

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng-Yu Tseng ◽  
Cheng-Tao Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Boost Converter ◽  
Maximum Power ◽  
Battery Charger ◽  
Maximum Power Point ◽  
Point Tracking ◽  
Switching Losses ◽  
Power Point Tracking ◽  
Power Point ◽  
Observation Method

This paper proposes a photovoltaic (PV) power system for battery charger applications. The charger uses an interleaving boost converter with a single-capacitor turn-off snubber to reduce voltage stresses of active switches at turn-off transition. Therefore, active switches of the charger can be operated with zero-voltage transition (ZVT) to decrease switching losses and increase conversion efficiency. In order to draw the maximum power from PV arrays and obtain the optimal power control of the battery charger, a perturbation-and-observation method and microchip are incorporated to implement maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm and power management. Finally, a prototype battery charger is built and implemented. Experimental results have verified the performance and feasibility of the proposed PV power system for battery charger applications.

Modelling and Simulation of Boost Converter with Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) for Photovoltaic Application

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Shaharuddin Mat Su, ◽  
Rasli Abd Ghani ◽  
Slamet Slamet
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Controller ◽  
Maximum Power Point Tracking ◽  
Boost Converter ◽  
Maximum Power ◽  
Maximum Power Point ◽  
Point Tracking ◽  
Power Point Tracking ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Power Point

This paper presents the proposed model and simulation of a DC to DC converter with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) using fuzzy logic controller (FLC) for a standalone Photovoltaic (PV) System. This research will focus on the developing high performance DC to DC converter with fuzzy logic controller based to extract the maximum power that generated by the PV panel. The system composed of the PV array and DC-DC boost converter with MPPT system. The maximum power point tracking control is based on adaptive fuzzy logic to control ON/OFF time of IGBT switch of DC-DC boost converter. The proposed DC to DC converter is designed by using the Multisim software while the controller programme will be carried out by using the Matlab Simulink software. Pulse width modulation will be generated by the controller to trigger the IGBT gate. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated by the simulation and the result show that our proposed converter can convert more power from generated voltage. By using the fuzzy logic method to track the maximum power of the PV array, it is faster and the voltage is stable.

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