COMPARISON OF DC PUSH PULL AND MODIFIED TIBC FOR

SOLAR WATER PUMPING SYSTEM IN MATLAB SIMULINK

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ANOOP. J. R, 2REEMA. N
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PG Scholar, 2Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics, Sree Buddha College of Engineering, Alappuzha, Kerala, India
Email: 1anoopjohnson92@gmail.com, 2n.reema3@gmail.com

Abstract - Agriculture is the primary sector for many nations and the main part for this is irrigation systems. Solar Water
Pumping is the one type of irrigation system using now a days, for this system proper converters are necessary for boosting
the small voltage of the panels to large value. Boosting of this can be done by various types of converters, in this the two
types of converters are DC Push Pull Converter and Modified Two Inductor Boost Converter (TIBC).Push pull converter is
formed by a split phase transformer while the Modified TIBC is formed by two inductors and switches and here the two
converters are analyzed in MATLAB Simulink and the resultant waveforms are simulated.

Keywords - TIBC, Push Pull Converter, solar water pumping

I. INTRODUCTION

Every nation in this world is depending on their

primary sectors mainly in calculating the national
income, thus for a nation like India the primary sector
is agriculture. In India the seventy percent of the
population depends on the various agriculture
schemes. In this agriculture the prime important one
is irrigation system, because depending on this the
entire yield or output depends. Thus proper irrigation
systems are required for good yield, in ancient times
all are depended on manual mode or mechanical
systems. As the technology is developed all are going
behind the automatic systems, the important part for
automatic systems is electrification. The main
problem now the world facing is the energy crisis, so
a new system for this irrigation system proposed by
the scientists are the Solar Water Pumping Systems.
In this system DC Motors are used in common
because the output of solar panels are very low so
boost converters are used and the output of converter
is DC. But now a days the workers in the agriculture
can’t depend on DC motors, they have to use AC
motors. The designing of solar water pumping system
using AC motors is not simple, because the boosted
voltage by the converters can be capable to run single
phase or three phase motors.
In various studies there are still now some remote
areas in this world which is not electrified, in these
areas the humans are going too far places for
collecting water for household and for irrigation
systems. In these places the use of solar water
pumping is an efficient one and this system is an
ecofriendly one causing no pollution to the nature.
Here a comparative study of two converters are done
used for solar water pumping system.
II. SOLAR WATER PUMPING SYSTEM
Fig 1. Solar Water Pumping System
In this commonly available systems large stack of
batteries are used for the energy storage from
batteries but these systems are not efficient due to the
problems and cost of batteries. In the figure shown
there is no batteries are used, the prime importance in
this is the DC-DC converter used in the pump
controller for boosting the small voltage of dc to a
large value. When storage elements are used the cost
of the system gets doubled or tripled when compared
to the overall life span of the solar panels. When
battery connected systems are used a proper lay man
is required for the regular checkup and condition of
the batteries.
III. TYPES OF SOLAR WATER PUMPING
SYSTEM
There are some existing methods available for the
solar water pumping systems, these systems have
drawback of using DC motors and not efficient. The
different types are by using batteries, grid connected
system and by using converters.

The solar water pumping system shown in Fig1 is In the figure 2 the battery coupled solar water
formed by a solar panel, a pump controller, motor, pumping system is shown, the working of this system
and storage element for the water. is simple such s the energy from the sun is converted
to electricity by the solar panel and this is stored in
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batteries. The energy stored is used for the running of
motors and the drawback of this system is for this
system large stack of batteries are necessary.
Fig 2. By using batteries
Fig 3. By using Grid connected solar PV
Grid connected solar
olar water pumping system is shown
in figure 3, in this if the energy from the panels are
not available, the energy from the grid can be used as
an alternative. This system can be deployed in places
where very sensitive loads are used, but this cannot
be used for remote areas.
Fig 4. By using Converters
The solar water pumping system by using converters
are shown in figure 4, in this figure there is 4
important parts marked, they are
1. Solar panel for converting solar energy
2. Motor pump controller for the control of motor
and the converter for boosting is also connected
here.
3. The motor for sucking water from the well or
water source.
4. Collecting tank for storing the water.
In solar water pumping system using converters the
basic type of converter used for boosting the small dc
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voltage to large value is normal boost converters with
single inductor and switch. The drawback of this
converter is it is not capable to use for heavy loads as
it has high input current ripple. The interleaving of
boost converters is another important terminology for
boosting the small voltage of the solar panels.
IV. CONVERTERS FOR SOLAR WATER
PUMPING SYSTEM
There are many converters available for boosting the
small voltage to large value, here two converters such
as Push Pull converter and Modified Two Inductor
Boost Converter (TIBC) are analyzed. The analysis of
these converter are done in MATLAB and from th this
the best and efficient converter is choose.
4.1 Push Pull Converter
Fig 5. Push Pull Converter
In figure 5 the DC-DCDC push pull converter is shown
and this is formed by a split phase transformer and
two switches. The switching of these switches are
very important because if the two switches operated
in same condition dead short circuit or open circuit
will occur. For example if the switches are in turnoff
condition then short circuit is the end result and if
both are in turn on condition high voltag
voltage peaks are
formed. Due to this the switching of the transistors
are very sensitive and due to the use of the split phase
transformer the ratings of the transformers should be
ideal and same. By using split phase transformer the
boosting of voltage is done properly but the working
of this should take place according to the magnetic
flux displacement and this is fully depend to the BH
curve of this. Other drawbacks for this system is the
bulkiness of the system is high and the transformer
losses are also very high.
The MATLAB Simulink model is developed for this
converter by giving supply from DC Batteries and the
model is shown in figure 6. The model developed in
MATLAB Simulink is exactly similar as that of the
circuit diagram, for test purpose a small vol
voltage is
given as input to this converter in MATLAB. The
input given and the output RMS value of voltage is
also shown in the model of this converter. When
simulation is done in software the losses are not
calculated, here the condition of the converters aare
taken as ideal with no losses. The main drawback of
this Push Pull Converter is the losses in the
transformer.
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Fig 6 MATLAB Model of DC Push Pull Converter

The input given to the Push pull converter is 10 V
and got an output voltage of 210.5 V as shown in
figure. The gain of the system is the ratio of the
output to input voltage and here it is 21.05. The
simulation resultant waveforms are shown in figure 7
and 8.
switches. There are mainly three parts for this
converter such as a resonant tank, voltage doubler
rectifier and a snubber circuit. Resonant tank is
formed by a transformer, voltage doubler rectifier is
composed by two diodes and capacitors and snubber
circuit is the combination of two diodes with a series
capacitor.

Fig 7 Input Voltage of Push Pull Converter

Fig 9 Modified Two Inductor Boost converter

The converter is more efficient when the simulation

Fig 8 Output Voltage of Push Pull Converter
The input and output voltage waveforms are shown in
figure it is seen that the boosting of the voltage is
taken place in a short duration of time and going to a
large value and after 3 seconds the value of the
voltage is constant.
4.2 Modified TIBC
Modified TIBC is another type of boost converter,
with specialties of high efficiency, cost effective one.
The circuit diagram of modified TIBC is shown in
figure 9, this is formed by two inductors and two
studies are done, the MATLAB Simulink model of
the Modified TIBC is shown in figure 10.
Here in this model also for simulation the input given
is 10 V and got an output of 275.5 V, the simulation
is done for 20 sec and the switching frequency
applied for this is 100KHz. The gain of the system is
27.55, large when compared to the Push Pull
Converter. The input and output waveforms are
shown in figure 11 and 12.

Fig 10. MATLAB Model of Modified TIBC

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Fig 11 Input Voltage of Push Pull Converter
Fig 12 Output Voltage of the Modified TIBC
From the output waveforms the efficiency of the
system can be identified, from the output result the
voltage is shooting to maximum value within the
short duration and after that the waveform is constant.
CONCLUSIONS
Solar Water Pumping system is an important
development in the case of irrigation systems, the
main part in this is the designing of the converters.
Here two types of converters such as Push Pull
Converter and Modified TIBC is analyzed in
MATLAB. From the simulation result it can be seen
that the efficiency of Modified TIBC is good and it
can be connected to heavy loads and losses are also
low when compared to Push Pull Converter.
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