Improved photovoltaic conversion chain with interleaved method

This paper presents a parallel connection of three-cell interleaved boost converters used as an adaptation stage dedicated to photovoltaic applications. Indeed, this structure associated to a MPPT control improves the efficiency and reliability of a photovoltaic power conversion chain. An additional current sharing control has been incorporated to assure a uniform distribution of power between each DC-DC converter. Every voltage and current ripples present on the load and photovoltaic (PV) source implying the switch stresses are reduced with this technique compared to a classical structure. Finally; experimental results show that the proposed technique can be used for impedance matching of a PV array.