Comparative Study of Adaptive Single Sensor Based MPPT for PV Applications with Conventional Algorithms

摘要

Photovoltaic (PV) Systems are becoming vital for the existence of mankind nowadays. From bulk power generation to space exploration applications, PV systems finds an important role. To extract power from PV device it has to be operated at its Maximum Power Point(MPP) for which different MPPT algorithms are used. On a relative study of these different MPPT algorithms it is found that most of them suffers from certain problems such as highly oscillatory response and slow tracking time. Most of these algorithms uses both current and voltage sensors, this adds to the issue of reliability of such MPPTs. Here in this study, a Single voltage sensor based Adaptive MPPT is compared with different MPPT algorithms using MATLAB/SIMULINK simulations.