4th Int’l Conf.
on Recent Advances in Information Technology | RAIT-2018 |
Performance Analysis of VSI Based Standalone PV
Generation System Connected to Induction Motor
Ashiwani Yadav1, Jagannath Patra2, Nitai Pal3 and Harshit Gupta4
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India
email:1ashiwaniurgent@gmail.com, 2jaganath.ptr@gmail.com, 3nitai_pal@rediffmail.com, 4harshit.mbm123@gmail.com
Abstract—Renewable energy sources like wind & solar can
be regarded as the acceptable alternative for conventional
energy sources. The standalone photovoltaic system
basically used to provide the electricity to the remote areas.
This study illustrates the performance analysis of 3-phase
induction motor working as a load with PV array is
connected. In this paper input voltage of the inverter is a
step–up by dc/dc boost converter. Designed boost converter
with MPPT boosts the voltage that is developed by the PV
array to a specific required value that can run satisfactorily
the 3-phase induction motor. The inverter transforms the
DC voltage to the AC that is controlled with the help of
SPWM –VSI techniques, as the inverter output voltage is
not pure sinusoidal so LC-filter is used to obtain the proper
sine waveform. Thus output voltage of Inverter can be used
to operate the 3- phase induction motor at different loading.
The acceptable results are procured for the given loads and
the load voltage is found to be steady under varying load
setting.
Keywords- Photovoltaic; DC-DC boost converter;
MPPT; Induction Motor
NOMENCLATURE
Vpv Output voltage of a PV module (V)
I pv Output current of a PV module(A)
Tr Reference temperature=298k
T Module operating temperature in Kelvin
I ph Light generated current in a PV module (A)
Io Reverse saturation current in a PV module
A=B An ideality factor =1.6
k Boltzmann constant=1.3805X106-19
Rs Series resistance of a PV module
Iscr PV module short-circuit -current at 25 0C
and 1000W/m
Ns No of cells connected in series
Np No of cells connected in parallel
Ȝ PV module illumination(W/m2)=1000W/m2
E go Band gap for silicon
I. INTRODUCTION
Sun energy is quintessential energy source that is
getting considerable attention by the researchers.
Photovoltaic systems produce electricity without creation
of any pollution or the noise that is the reason it is more
advantageous. Renewable energy system like
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hydropower, wind and the photovoltaic generation
system have been common now days as alternative
means to fulfill the energy demands. Photovoltaic system
may provide energy to the standalone load like induction
motor acting as load. The purpose of standalone
photovoltaic energy converter is to provide the power
and injects the sinusoidal voltage into the load applied [3-
4]. Voltage source inverter based photovoltaic systems
structurally have simple topology with small size and
high efficiency. For achieving high efficient power from
PV array is to be maximized at every moment. As the
power generated by the photovoltaic system is nonlinear
and varied with time by changing the atmospheric
conditions [5], the MPPT play very important role in
chasing the maximum power point of the PV array. There
are various types of MPPT techniques to chase the
maximum power point like hill climbing method(P&O)
[6], constant voltage control, constant current control,
Incremental conductance, fuzzy logic control, Neural
network all these techniques differs in complexity, Speed
of convergence, cost effectiveness etc [7-8]. In this study
perturb & observe (P&O) method has been purposed, it
takes less time in convergence to obtain the maximum
power point MPP. Conventionally two important
functions like to obtain MPPT and injection of sinusoidal
current to the load is done in two steps, one is dc/dc
converter using MPPT and second is dc/ac converter of
sine current injection. The SPWM-VSI converters
drawing the attention of many researchers around the
world, because previously used power converters
switching devices have some disadvantages like having
large size & low efficiency & reliability. The solid-state
semiconductor made thyristor gained devices overcome
all these deficiencies however the self commutation
feature is missing here, hence a commutation circuit like
forced commutation is required but it increases its cost
along with complexity and makes it bulky, therefore its
utilization is limited to VSI applications. Here IGBT
switch is used for safe commutation to sort out the
transient occurring at the time of switching. IGBT has
many features like easy to control and higher efficiency.
Thus the IGBT switches are most widely used devices in
the SPWM-VSI converters. The sinusoidal pulse width
modulation technique of voltage source inverter (VSI) is
proposed to control the inverter voltage [9]. Power
control for the PV fed standalone induction motor is
executed by PLL & PI controller. Asynchronous machine
(three- phase) is supplied at the output terminal of the PV
array to obtain performance characteristics like speed-
torque and stator current of induction motor.