Maximum Power Point Tracking and MPPT efficiency for wind and solar energy conversion standalone system

Author

Joshi, S. ; Pandya, V. ; Bhalja, B.

Author_Institution

R.K. Univ., Rajkot, India

fYear

2014

fDate

11-13 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper focuses on simulation analysis of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm (MPPT) for small scale Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) and Solar Photovoltaic (SP) module for power generation. The existing MPPT algorithms for WECS use DC current as the perturbing variable whereas change in wind speed is detected with the help of change in dc voltage. While in case of Solar (PV) maximum power is tracked by DC power taking voltage as a perturbing variable. The algorithms have implemented in PSIM ® 9.1.4 software. The performance of the algorithm is found to be satisfactory for power generation application as the MPPT efficiency obtained is of the order of 80% and 98.32% for wind and solar respectively.

Keywords

hybrid power systems; maximum power point trackers; solar power stations; wind power plants; MPPT; PSIM; PSIM based P&O method; WECS; maximum power point tracking algorithm; perturb and observe method; power generation; solar energy conversion standalone system; solar photovoltaic module; wind energy conversion standalone system; Blades; Maximum power point trackers; Rotors; Software algorithms; Wind energy; Wind speed; Wind turbines; MPPT efficiency; Maximum Power Point Tracking; Perturb and Observe Method (P&O); Wind and Solar Energy Conversion System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Conference (INDICON), 2014 Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Pune

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5362-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDICON.2014.7030544

Filename

7030544