STANDALONE BLDC BASED SOLAR AIR COOLER WITH MPP TRACKING FOR

IMPROVED EFFICIENCY

MIDHUN VARGHESE
Roll No-14
M-Tech -Power Electronics (PT)
CUSAT
 Aim of the project
To develop a solar PV fed air cooler system, which can
operate satisfactorily for longer time periods under
dynamically changing atmospheric conditions.
 Abstract
1, Solar Energy (SE) as a source of power for designing and developing a stand-alone air-cooling system.

2, This type of application is particularly suited for rural areas that have a considerable amount of solar
radiation and have no access to grid systems.

3, The proposed system contains (PV) array, DC-DC boost converter, BLDC motors and a battery or super
capacitor with Bidirectional converter.

The BLDC motor is connected with a DC- DC boost converter that ensures a maximum power point
(MPP) operation. The challenging task in an air cooling system is to maintain the constant speed
under variable irradiance conditions.
General layout of the Existing system
 General layout of the modified system

2 number BLDC
motor replaced
P&O algorithm
with
replaced with IC Bidirectional
one number BLDC
algorithm DC-DC
Converter motor
2 number VSI
replaced with Single
Battery with Bidirectional VSI
converter
 Design of Solar Air Cooler System Involves:
• PV Panel
Max. Power - 250W/module
Open Ckt Voltage -Voc(V) -30.7(MPP)
Short Ckt Current - 8.15A(MPP)
Shunt Resistance - 240 ohm
Parallel Resistance - 0.237ohm
Number of Strings in series. - 4
Number of parallel strings -1
• MPPT control -
The existing system uses P&O algorithm for obtain the MPPT
control.
• As per the IEEE paper “Comparative Study of Maximum Power Point
Tracking Algorithms Using an Experimental, Programmable, Maximum
Power Point Tracking “ the ‘Incremental and Conductance MPPT
algorithm` is able to to provide better performance than P&O
MPPT algorithm.
• "
1, Incremental Conductance (IC) tracking the peak
power under fast varying atmospheric condition.

2, This method can determine the MPP and stops

perturbing the operating point. If this condition is
not met, the direction in which the MPPT operating
point must be perturbed can be calculated using
the relationship between dl/dV and –I/V.
3, This relationship dP/dV is negative when the
MPPT is to the right of the MPP and positive when
it is to the left of the MPP.

4, Incremental conductance can track rapidly

increasing and decreasing irradiance conditions
with higher accuracy than perturb and observe
method.
• Design of converter:

1, IEEE-Bidirectional DC-DC converter in Solar PV System for Battery Charging

Application
Seema Jadhav, Neha Devdas, Shakila Nisar and Vaibhav Bajpai
Department of Electrical Engineering, Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Technology,
Vashi, Navi Mumbai.

2,IEEE- BLDC Motor Driven for Solar Photo Voltaic Powered Air Cooling System
D. Shobha Rani, M. Muralidhar

3,IEEE - Rajan Kumar and Bhim Singh, BLDC Motor Driven Water Pump Fed by Solar
Photovoltaic Array Using Boost Converter, IEEE INDICOON.
• Design of converter:
The SPV array voltage at MPP,
Vpv = 122.8 V
Vdc = 150 V at the output voltage of the boost converter.
The duty ratio, D, of the boost converter is evaluated by employing the
input-output relationship.
 Design of Solar Air Cooler System Involves:
• Design of converter:
L and C values are calculated using following equations
 Design of Solar Air Cooler System Involves:
• Design of converter:

30%
• Selection of BLDC Motor:

600

150
• Bidirectional DC DC converter for Battery:

1, IEEE - Bidirectional DC-DC converter in Solar PV System for Battery Charging Application
Seema Jadhav, Neha Devdas, Shakila Nisar and Vaibhav Bajpai
Department of Electrical Engineering, Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Technology,
Vashi, Navi Mumbai.
• Bidirectional DC DC converter for Battery:

1, The PV panel supplies power to DC link.

2, The bidirectional converter operates in two modes; in the presence of DC link
voltage, the battery is being charged, and in the absence of the DC link voltage, the
battery supplies power to the grid.
• Bidirectional DC DC converter for Battery:

DC grid voltage -150V DC

Battery Voltage - 48V
Buck mode -
D - Vout/Vin*efficiency
D - 0.355
Value of L -
Delta L - 20% of load current

L -7.25mH
• Bidirectional DC DC converter for Battery:

Value of C -

C - 134.2 micro F
• Bidirectional DC DC converter for Battery:

DC grid voltage -150V DC

Battery Voltage - 48V

Boost mode -
D - 1 - (Vin*efficiency/Vout)
D - 0.71

Value of L - 6.8mH (7.3H selected)

• Bidirectional DC DC converter for Battery:

Value of C -

Link 150V
C - 60 micro F 48V
7.2mh

134
60
• Benefits observed after the modification :

1, IC MPP Tracking increased the efficiency and provided fast MPP

tracking.

2, Removed one BLDC motor -

• Reduced the switching losses of electronic components.
• Reduced motor losses Cu losses, Core losses, Friction losses etc.

3, Provided Battery with bi-directional converter - improved the

reliability.
• Simulation:
• Simulation resutl-
 Hardware
implementation Details

Bi Directional converter
Solar Panel (Dc source)
with battery
MPPT Converter
And its Controller

BLDC Motor Ckt

 Hardware
implementation Details
Main Components details -

1. DSPIC30F2010 - microcontroller
2. Driver IC - IR2110
3. Current Sensor - ACS 712
4. Diode -Hf04
5. Mosfet - P55NF06
6. Regulator IC - 7805
7. BLDC Motor -12V
Thank You