Design and development of DC-DC buck converter for photovoltaic application

Author

Masri, S. ; Mohamad, Nurain ; Hariri, M.H.M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

3-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents the design and development of DC-DC buck converter for photovoltaic application. The intention in designing DC-DC buck converter is to provide robust and high performance power point tracker acting as an intermediate between supply source and load. The system was simulated using Power Electronic Simulation (PSIM 9.0). The procedure in terms of selection of components has also been demonstrated. The experimental results show that with a constant input voltage of 80V, the buck converter is able to produce 164W with average 60 percent efficiency.

Keywords

maximum power point trackers; photovoltaic power systems; power electronics; power system simulation; DC-DC buck converter; PSIM 9.0; photovoltaic application; power 164 W; power electronic simulation; power point tracker; voltage 80 V; Capacitors; Inductors; Integrated circuit modeling; Load modeling; Photovoltaic systems; Switches; buck; continous conduction mode; photovoltaic; psim;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICPERE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bali

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2468-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2469-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPERE.2012.6287236

Filename

6287236