Title :
Development of an efficient photovoltaic MPPT Controller
Author :
Maity, J. ; Mitra, Sanjit ; Majee, J. ; Chowdhuri, Sumana ; Bera, Jitendranath
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Abstract :
A Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Controller using a buck converter has been designed and developed for a standalone Photovoltaic(PV) array. Perturb and Observe (P&O) algorithm has been implemented on a microcontroller to achieve the maximum power output from PV array. The whole developed hardware system has been tested with and without MPPT in a conventional PV array. The results show that the introduction of MPPT controller increases the efficiency of the conventional PV array.
Keywords :
maximum power point trackers; microcontrollers; solar cell arrays; buck converter; efficient photovoltaic MPPT controller; maximum power point tracking controller; microcontroller based buck converter; perturb and observe algorithm; standalone PV array; standalone photovoltaic array; Buck Converter; MOSFET; Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT); Perturb and Observe (P&O); Photovoltaic(PV); Pulse Width Modulation (PWM);
Conference_Titel :
Power and Energy in NERIST (ICPEN), 2012 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nirjuli
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1667-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICPEN.2012.6492339
