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Bypass Structure
widely [1-3]. However, the internal and external W/O fronted
Virtual parallel
converter Nested
mismatches experienced on photovoltaic (PV) cells will structure
structure
structure
Submodule II Submodule II
Vout
PV2
Vout
IMPP2-IMPP1 IMPP2
Submodule III
IMPP1
Submodule III
澳 澳
(a) (b) Controllable
Current
Source
PV1
Submodule I
Submodule II
Vout Fig.5 Differential power converters act as controllable current
sources to allow series PV elements to operate at independent
current level.
Submodule III
B. MPPT Control for DPP converters
澳 In DPP system, to design a proper control method for
(c) MPPT, two algorithms for commercial micro-inverter,
Fig.3 Typical DMPPT structures: (a) Parallel Connection. (b) including perturbation and observation (P&O) and
Virtual series connection. (c) Bypass structure.
Incremental Conductance method (INC), are presented in
Table.1 Comparisons of DPP structure this section. The principle of P&O is perturbing the output
Parallel Cascaded Virtual
power on a fixed period, led to output power increment or
Solutions Others
connection connection connection decrement, then observed the its output power, justified
Voltage Gain Nearly unit Nearly unit High High the direction of variety that to be basis next step of control
Power Flow bidirectional bidirectional undirectional bidirectional signal variety. Fig.6 shown the control flowchart. DPP
converter adopts the P&O algorithm, which periodical
Complexity Simple Simple Simple High
perturbs the voltage of each own module, observes the
Constant Power
Region
No No No No
variety directions of each element currents, then
Nmin (indicates the
number of PV units)
Npanel-1 Npanel Npanel Npanel-1 calculates the how to change in the PV module output
power, which determine the direction of the next voltage
perturbation. Fig.7 shows the flowchart of Incremental
PV
Conductance method.
PV Start
DC-DC
Measure Ik. Uk
DC-DC
PV DC-AC PV DC-AC
Inverter
Inverter yes
DC-DC Calculate Pk
DC-DC no
PV PV yes no
P(k)>P(k-1)?
DC-DC
澳 yes no no yes
A. Control Model
The basic principle of DPP is that it can enable each PV Fig.6 The flowchart of Perturbation and Observation (P&O)
element work at its optimal state regardless the specific Start
system connection and the string level can provide a small Measure Ik, Uk
connected PV elements before they reach their MPPs, the Uref=Uref+U Uref=Uref-U Uref=Uref+U Uref=Uref-U
Yes
Q1=Q2=Q3=Pulse1 Q1=
Q4=Pulse2
Q2=
Q5=Pulse2
Q3=
Q6=Pulse2
differential power processing optimizer for photovoltaic
Q4=Q5=Q6=1-Q1
applications. Solar Energy, 158, 929-940.
Fig. 10. System protection algorithm.