Under the guidance of Dr. E. Chandirasekaran, this project aims to develop a smart solar system that tracks sunlight manually and uses maximum power point tracking (MPPT) to boost the solar panel output to a constant voltage. The system uses a 12W solar panel connected to a DC-DC booster circuit controlled by a PIC microcontroller. By varying the duty cycle of the PWM signal based on MPPT, the system ensures maximum energy is transferred from the solar panel regardless of sunlight intensity variations. The major advantage is by implementing this MPPT concept nationwide, it can help reduce energy crisis problems and move the country towards being more green.
Under the guidance of Dr. E. Chandirasekaran, this project aims to develop a smart solar system that tracks sunlight manually and uses maximum power point tracking (MPPT) to boost the solar panel output to a constant voltage. The system uses a 12W solar panel connected to a DC-DC booster circuit controlled by a PIC microcontroller. By varying the duty cycle of the PWM signal based on MPPT, the system ensures maximum energy is transferred from the solar panel regardless of sunlight intensity variations. The major advantage is by implementing this MPPT concept nationwide, it can help reduce energy crisis problems and move the country towards being more green.
Under the guidance of Dr. E. Chandirasekaran, this project aims to develop a smart solar system that tracks sunlight manually and uses maximum power point tracking (MPPT) to boost the solar panel output to a constant voltage. The system uses a 12W solar panel connected to a DC-DC booster circuit controlled by a PIC microcontroller. By varying the duty cycle of the PWM signal based on MPPT, the system ensures maximum energy is transferred from the solar panel regardless of sunlight intensity variations. The major advantage is by implementing this MPPT concept nationwide, it can help reduce energy crisis problems and move the country towards being more green.
Under the guidance of Dr. E. Chandirasekaran, this project aims to develop a smart solar system that tracks sunlight manually and uses maximum power point tracking (MPPT) to boost the solar panel output to a constant voltage. The system uses a 12W solar panel connected to a DC-DC booster circuit controlled by a PIC microcontroller. By varying the duty cycle of the PWM signal based on MPPT, the system ensures maximum energy is transferred from the solar panel regardless of sunlight intensity variations. The major advantage is by implementing this MPPT concept nationwide, it can help reduce energy crisis problems and move the country towards being more green.
Energy crisis is a prominent topic which is being discussed among people of all sorts of life and also by all the countries around the globe. Even our country India, faces a severe energy demand and shortage which requires the immediate attention. SO, people have started to switch from the polluting non-renewable energy resources to green renewable energy sources. One of the prominent renewable sources is SOLAR ENERGY. In country like India, solar energy is available for around 300 days. So, tapping this energy and harnessing energy from them will be more useful and will be a long term one. The main objective of this project is to track the sun light manually and to boost the output obtained from it to a constant voltage based on the MPPT (maximum power point tracking) so that irrespective of the variation in the sun light intensity the output is obtained continuously and can be used for our appliances directly or can be used for charging the battery. The project uses solar panel of 12 W rating which has an open circuit voltage of 21V and short circuit current of 1.1 A and maximum output voltage of 17.4 V. The output of this solar panel is given to a DC to DC booster circuit comprising of high frequency switching MOSFET. The gate pulses for the switching device is given from PIC microcontroller PIC 16F877A. Major specialty of this controller is PWM output which is given as gate pulses. The ADC port of the controller is used to input the analog input value of the solar panel output and the digitized output are used to vary the duty cycle of the PWM signal to be fed as gate signals. The variation is the PWM is based on the MPPT concept of tracking the maximum power. The major advantages of the project is that by using the maximum power point tracking the output obtained ensures that maximum energy is transferred from the solar panel to the output and also to adjust the panel to face the sun light of maximum intensity so that maximum amount of sun light is captured for conversion. By implementing this concept throughout the Nation, the energy crisis problem prevailing can be reduced and the Nation will move towards a green one.