Design and simulation of an open voltage algorithm based maximum power point tracker for battery charging PV system

Author

Ferdous, S.M. ; Mohammad, M.A. ; Nasrullah, F. ; Saleque, Ahmed Mortuza ; Muttalib, A. Z. M. Shahriar

Author_Institution

Dept. of EEE, American Int. Univ.- Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

908

Lastpage

911

Abstract

A MPPT is required for effective operation and power extraction from a PV module. Amongst several existing well established MPPT algorithms, the open voltage (OV) based algorithm is chosen to design the proposed MPPT circuit developed in this paper. The designed circuit is simple and easy to implement yet moderately efficient in MPP tracking. Due to its simplicity it can be very easily integrated with a PV module which would serve the purpose of battery charge controller and no separate charge controller would be needed. The efficiency of the MPPT circuit is more than 95% and the system, with the buck converter, is 86% efficient.

Keywords

battery chargers; maximum power point trackers; solar cells; MPP tracking; MPPT algorithm; MPPT circuit; OV-based algorithm; PV module; battery charge controller; battery charging PV system; buck converter; maximum power point tracker; open voltage algorithm; power extraction; Algorithm design and analysis; Batteries; Integrated circuit modeling; Load modeling; Maximum power point trackers; Photovoltaic systems; Voltage measurement; Maximum power point tracking (MPPT); PV battery charger; PV module; buck converter; open voltage algorithm; photovoltaic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2012 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1434-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2012.6471698

Filename

6471698