Intelligent Grid Interfaced Solar Water Pumping

system

Abstract

This study proposes a solar photovoltaic (SPV) water pumping system

integrated with the single phase distribution system by utilising induction motor
drive (IMD) with an intelligent power sharing concept. In addition to the power
exchange from SPV to the IMD, a DC-DC boost converter is utilised as a power
factor correction unit and a grid interfacing device. For good utilisation of SPV
array, it is necessary to extract maximum power from the SPV array. To meet
this objective, an incremental conductance based maximum power point
tracking control is implemented. Whereas, to control the IMD tied to voltage
source inverter, a simple voltage/frequency control technique is used. The
proposed topology is designed and tested in the laboratory under standalone,
grid interfaced and in mixed mode under various operating conditions