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ABSTRACT
In order to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic panels it is necessary to introduce the technique of Maximum Power Point (the
technique of the MPPT). In the literature, several strategies are mentioned, among which the perturbation and observation (P&O)
algorithm. The aim of this work is to a simulation study in MATLAB of a photovoltaic panel connected to the network using DC-DC
and DC-AC converters. DC Boost converter is checked by the MPPT command to adjust the output voltage of the photovoltaic panel
and maximize the power produced by the photovoltaic panel. The PI controller is used to control the inverter three-phase to make the
connection of the photovoltaic panel to a three-phase electrical network.
Keywords: PV system, DC boost converter, MPPT command, P&O, three-phase voltage converter, PI regulator
2. SUBJECT
One way to benefit from photovoltaic energy is to con-
nect PV systems into a electrical network. Since most elec-
trical networks operate on AC and PV systems produce
electrical energy continuously, this incompatibility can be
resolved by converting the electrical energy produced by
PV systems from DC to AC using an inverter.
In this paper, we will discuss the modeling and design
of a three phase inverter controlled by PI control for our two
stage photovoltaic system and how to make it connected in
a three phase electrical network considering the character-
istics of the electrical network. Since the input source of the
inverter is a voltage source we used the three phase voltage
Fig. 1 General diagram of a PV system connected to the
inverter. electrical network [22]
A general diagram of a PV system connected to the
electrical network is shown in Figure 1 and consists of
three main components: PV panel (or generator), power The control of the PV system is activated via the power
The parallel chopper is also called booster chopper is ∆iL = 0.05 × iL = 0.05 × 0.68 = 0.034A
a static converter that allows to provide an output voltage
whose average value is greater than that of the input volt-
age [12]. ∆v0 = 0.01 ×Vo = 0.01 × 400 = 4V
The Parallel Chopper circuit is illustrated in figure 4. Its
output voltage Vo is always greater than the input voltage Vs To find the minimum values of the inductance L and the
for steady-state operation. capacitor C we will use the equations:
The Parallel Chopper consists of an inductor L, a con- VPm α 31.3 × 0.922
trolled switch S (usually an IGBT or MOSFET), a diode Lmin = = = 0.053H
fs ∆iL 16 × 103 × 0.034
D, a filter capacitor C and a load resistor R. switch S is
activated and deactivated at the switching frequency fs =
f rac1T with the duty cycle al pha = f ractonT , where ton Vo α 400 × 0.922
Cmin = = = 9.7µF
is the time interval when the switch S is on and α between fs R∆vo 16 × 103 × 592.6 × 4
0 and 1.
The Parallel Chopper can operate in continuous or dis- 3.3. MPPT command
continuous conduction mode, depending on the current
waveform of the inductor. The Parallel Chopper in discon- By definition, an MPPT command, associated with an
tinuous conduction mode cannot operate at R = ∞ because intermediate adaptation stage, makes it possible to operate
the filter capacitor has no path to discharge [13]. a PV so as to continuously produce the maximum of its
power whatever the weather conditions (temperature and
radiation), the MPPT command of the converter places the
system at the maximum operating point (VPPM and IPPM).
The MPPT control varies the duty cycle of the static con-
verter, using an appropriate electrical signal, to get the max-
imum power that the PV can deliver. The MPPT algorithm
can be more or less complicated to find the MPP. In gen-
eral, it is based on the variation of the duty cycle of the
static converter as a function of the evolution of the input
parameters of the latter (I and V and consequently of the
power of the PV) until it is placed on the MPP [16].
The MPPT needs a fast and intelligent control system to
Fig. 4 Ideal equivalent circuit of the parallel chopper [14]
counter rapidly changing weather data or load changes [9].
The purpose of the DC to DC converter is to isolate the
DC input from the DC output so that the output can be ad-
Our goal is to design a parallel chopper for which to justed for maximum power. The MPPT command typically
use its output voltage as an input in a three-phase inverter uses a [17] microprocessor.
to convert from direct to alternating and for that the output The MPPT control consists of two basic components,
voltage that we want is follows the voltage of our electrical the dc-dc converter and its controller. As shown in Fig 5.
network which is Vo = 400V . Many techniques have been introduced to catch MPP.
The input quantities that we will use in our chopper will These techniques differ by their complexity, their cost, their
be the maximum operating quantities of the PV in STC as efficiency, their response and their robustness, among these
illustrated in table 1. techniques the most used is the technique of P&O (pertur-
The desired ripple value for the current in the inductor bation and observation).
iL is 5 % and 1 % for the output voltage Vo .
The switching frequency we are going to use is fs =
16KHz.
The duty cycle is:
VPm 31.3
α = 1− = 1− = 0.922
Vo 400
LC filter can be written to the d-q reference as follows: the voltage u f and ug is expressed by:
d 1
Cf VCd = C f ωVCq + id − iLd (9) u f = i1 (R f + sL f ) + ic + Rd (18)
dt sC f
d 1
C f VCq = C f ωVCd + iq − iLq (10) ug = i1 (Rg + sLg ) + ic + Rd (19)
dt sC f
where s is the Laplace operator. Rewrite the equation
d 17 and 19 in terms of impedances, then:
Lf id = −r f id + L f ωiq +Vd −VCd (11)
dt
uf Z11 −Z12 i1
= (20)
ug Z21 −Z22 i2
d With:
Lf iq = −r f iq + L f ωid +Vq −VCq (12)
dt
1
where C f is the capacitance of the filter, L f is the induc- Z11 = R f + sL f + Rd + (21)
sC f
tance of the filter, r f is the resistor of the inductance of the
filter and omega is the angular frequency.
After some mathematical manipulation, the equations 9 1
Z12 = Rd + (22)
and 12 are rewritten in the following compact form: sC f
1
C f V̇C = C f WssVc + I − IL (13) Z21 = Rd + (23)
sC f
1
L f I˙ = −r f I + L f Wss I +U −VC (14) Z11 = Rg + sLg + Rd + (24)
sC f
where VC (t), IL (t), I(t), U(t) represent respectively the
For the PI corrector, there are two parameters K p and Ki .
load voltage, the load current, the input current of the LC
These parameters can be determined using the ziegler and
filter and l command entry, defined as:
nichols method.
V
i
I
V The transfer function of the closed loop system in the
VC = Cd , IL = Ld , I = d ,U = d (15) discrete time domain is given by:
VCq iLq Iq Vq
CPI (z)Hsys (z)
where Wss is an auxiliary antisymmetric matrix defined as GBF (z) = (25)
1 +CPI (z)Hsys (z)
follows:
subsection Principle of the Ziegler and Nichols method:
0 ω This method is a semi-empirical method that allows to cal-
Wss = (16)
−ω 0 culate suitable values for the various parameters in type P,
PI and PID correctors. The principle consists in bringing,
3.5. PI regulator implementation by increasing the gain of an uncorrected system, to the os-
cillation limit. We measure the period T0 of the oscilla-
The model of the inverter with corrector can be de-
tions and the corresponding added static gain K0 . Then we
rived from the single-phase diagram of the inverter (Figure
use the table 1 to calculate the coefficients of the correctors
9 which mainly consists of the inverter’s LCL filter.
[21].
The general form of the PID corrector is given by:
1
CPID = KP 1 + + TD s (26)
TI s
P Corrector 0.5 K0 - -
According to Kirchhoff’s law we have: the current i is PI Corrector 0.45 K0 0.8 T0 -
expressed by:
PID Corrector 0.6 K0 0.5 T0 0.125 T0
ic = i1 − i2 (17)
4. RESULTS
greatness Values
Maximum efficiency ηm 16.6% Fig. 12 The output current Io (t) of the parallel chopper
controlled by MPPT
Temperature coefficient of Pmax −0.35%/oC
The characteristics of output voltage Vo , output current Fig. 14 The output voltage and current of the three-phase
Io and output power Po are shown in the following figures: inverter Vo (t) and Io (t)
5. CONCLUSIONS
the work presented in this paper concerns photovoltaic
Fig. 15 The output power Po (t) of the parallel chopper systems connected by an electrical network. this system
controlled by MPPT is led to experience significant developments mainly linked
to an increasingly manifested desire to diversify production
means, better respect for the environment and better man-
agement of electrical energy in a context of sustainable de-
velopment .
The synchronization of the currents is made using a
three-phase digital PLL in the objective of reconstituting in-
formation on the direct component of the fundamental net-
work voltage then injecting into a PI regulation loop thus
the phase shift of the three-phase source at the output of the
inverter.
The voltage and the current at the output of the three-
phase inverter are indeed sinusoidal with weak harmonics
which are practically negligible compared to the fundamen-
Fig. 16 The harmonic distortion rate of the output current and tal
voltage of the inverter
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We can observed that the LCL filter to improve the form The author Sihem Bouri thanks to Boudjlal, T. and
of the voltage and current supplied to the electrical network Boudaoud, T. for their contribution in the this paper.
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Received September 20, 2021, accepted November 11, the Faculty of Technology, University Abou Bekr Belkaid,
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