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Abstract Photovoltaic (PV) systems are solar energy supply The power-electronic technology plays an important role in
systems, which either supply power directly to an electrical distributed generation and in integration of renewable energy
equipment or feed energy into the public electricity grid. This sources into the electrical grid, and it is widely used and
paper focuses on the latest development of modelling and control rapidly expanding as these applications become more
of grid connected photovoltaic energy conversion system. In the integrated with the grid-based Systems. During the last few
photovoltaic system, power electronic conversion is necessary to
years, power electronics has undergone a fast evolution,
improve the efficiency of PV panels and system stability. In these
systems, the backstage power circuit consists of a high step-up which is mainly due to two factors. The first one is the
DC-to-DC converter and a full-bridge inverter to convert DC to development of fast semiconductor switches that are capable
AC, as the grid voltage is AC in nature. Modelling of of switching quickly and handling high powers. The second
photovoltaic systems include modelling of SPV array, power factor is the introduction of real-time computer controllers
electronics inverter/converter based on MATLAB/SIMULINK. that can implement advanced and complex control algorithms
This present control algorithm of a single-phase grid-connected [2].
photovoltaic (PV) system including the PV array and the Photovoltaic (PV) power supplied to the utility grid is gaining
electronic power conditioning (PCS) system, based on the more and more visibility, while the worlds power demand is
MATLAB/Simulink software. It also discussed advances in
increasing [3]. Not many PV systems have so far been placed
MPP tracking technologies, the synchronization of the inverter
and the connection to the grid. into the grid due to the relatively high cost, compared with
more traditional energy sources such as oil, gas, coal, nuclear,
Index Terms Boost converter, Full-Bridge Voltage Source hydro, and wind. Solid-state inverters have been shown to be
Inverter, Photovoltaic Array, LCL filter, photovoltaic system. the enabling technology for putting PV systems into the grid
[4].
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photovoltaic applications. They discussed and compared the power, hydroelectricity and biomass, account for most of the
Half Bridge Diode Clamped. Full Bridge Single Leg available non-conventional type of energy on earth. Only a
Clamped, Cascaded (CC), Step, Magnetic Coupled and small fraction of the available solar energy is used.
Flying Capacitor (FC) multilevel converter topologies.
Solar powered electrical generation relies on photovoltaic
Chem Nayar [3] and fellows described a novel power
system and heat engines. Solar energy's uses are limited only
converter capable of extracting maximum power from solar
by human creativity. To harvest the solar energy, the most
photovoltaic panels. This proposed dual converter
common way is to use photo voltaic panels which will receive
(combination of VCVSI and CCVSI) has able to provide
photon energy from sun and convert to electrical energy.
uninterruptible power supply feature, load voltage
Solar technologies are broadly classified as either passive
stabilization, unity power factor operation, maximum power
solar or active solar depending on the way they detain,
point tracking as well as reactive power support. The overall
convert and distribute solar energy. Active solar techniques
efficiency has higher than the conventional system with a
include the use of PV panels and solar thermal collectors to
dc-dc converter between the PV panels and the battery.
strap up the energy. Passive solar techniques include orienting
a building to the Sun, selecting materials with favorable
J.S.Siva Prasad and B.G.Femandes [4] proposed a new three
thermal mass or light dispersing properties and design spaces
phase active commutated thyristors current source inverter
that naturally circulate air. Solar energy has a vast area of
(CSI) topology for grid connected photovoltaic systems. The
application such as electricity generation for distribution,
basic active commutated thyristor CSI with pulse width
heating water, lightening building, crop drying etc.
modulation (PWM) capability has recently implemented with
a resistive load. To suppress the natural frequency of
oscillations of LC lter and to ensure stability of the system, a IV. SYSTEM COMPONENTS
charge controller in synchronous rotating reference frame is
described. It allows easy design of PI controller gains. A. Modelling Of Photovoltaic Module/Array
The photovoltaic module is the result of associating a group
Anastasios Ch. Kyritsis, Nikolaos P. Papanikolaou [5] and of photovoltaic cells in series and parallel, with their
fellows proposed a new design and control strategy of the Fly protection devices, and it represents the conversion unit in
back Inverter for decentralized grid connected PV systems. It this generation system. The manufacturer supply PV cells in
achieves high power density, high efficiency, and high power modules, consisting of NPM parallel branches, each with
factor regulation. The design and control strategy has NSM solar cells in series shown in Figure 1
investigated to the achievement of a converter with the
smallest possible volume for a given power or to the
maximization of the power transfer for given converter
parameters. In contrast to the classic converter topologies this
proposed scheme has presented a very high efciency, due to
its simplied structure.
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The photocurrent IPh for any operating conditions of the
PV array is assumed to be related to the photocurrent at Control circuit of boost converter is shown in Fig.3. For
standard test conditions (STC) as given in equation (2). regulation purpose, output voltage is continuously sensed Vo
(sensed) and compared with a reference voltage Vo
(reference).The resulting error signal is compared with a saw
tooth waveform having frequency ft. The output of a
B. DC to DC Boost Converter comparator is fed to the switch or fed into the gate of a power
MOSFET [1]. Usually, frequency in kilohertz is selected so as
DC-to-DC Converters are used for converting one level of to maximize the efficiency of a converter.
DC voltage (usually unregulated) to another level of DC
voltage (regulated). This transformation is done with the
help of a network consisting of storage elements like D. Voltage Controller
inductor and capacitor [1].
In general using electrolytic capacitors are less desirable for
their short operational lifetime. Hence Long lifetime film
capacitors serve as a substitute, however their high prices
limit the size that can be used in PV inverters. This causes a
significant double line frequency ripple on the DC link
voltage which may further couple through the control loop.
Figure 2 Boost Converter Therefore a band stop filter is placed on the dc voltage
feedback loop to attenuate the ripple. Fig. 4 shows the block
The key principle that drives the boost converter is the diagram of the outer voltage control loop. A simple PI
tendency of an inductor to resist changes in current. In a controller is used as a voltage controller G (s) v to regulate the
boost converter, the output voltage is always higher than dc link voltage.
the input voltage. A schematic of a boost converter is
shown in Fig. 2. Here, MOSFET is used as a switch. When
the switch is turned-ON, the current flows through the
inductor and energy is stored in it. When the switch is
turned-OFF, the stored energy in the inductor tends to
collapse and its polarity
changes such that it adds to the input voltage. Thus, the
voltage across the inductor and the input voltage are in
series
and together charge the output capacitor to a voltage
higher than the input voltage.
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Figure 3 Control circuit of boost converter
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