2019 International Conference on Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA)
Hybrid MPPT Controlled Solar/Wind Power
System for Pumping System
Abdul-Kadir Hamid
Waleed Obaid
EE Dept.
EE Dept.
University of Sharjah
University of Sharjah
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
akhamid@sharjah.ac.ae
U00032590@sharjah.ac.ae
Abstract—This paper proposes a hybrid design for water
pumping power system using solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels and
wind turbines. The benefit of the proposed system is that is can
be used to supply water to far remote areas and rural zones that
suffer from lack of water due to inadequate rainy days. The
system has the following primary components: voltage regulator
block, battery bank, three-phase AC to DC rectifier, three-phase
transformer, DC electric motor, and water pump. The solar
power system has Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT)
system to obtain maximum power from the photovoltaic panels.
Solar irradiance was simulated using random values. The hybrid
system will be simulated using SIMULINK to show the design
performance.
Keywords— Hybrid Solar and Wind Power System, MPPT
System, Water Pumping System, SIMULINK and MATLAB.
I. INTRODUCTION
The global energy demand increases annually. The high
demand urges investing into alterative sustainable sources of
energy like solar energy and wind energy since they are clean
and do not cause harmful emissions into air as the case of
emissions from conventional energy sources (greenhouse gases
effect). Renewable energy can be used in many applications
such as air conditioning and water pumping by electrical
motors for different usage like irrigation.
Solar power suits energizing remote areas. There are many
applications for solar energy depending on usage such as
domestic equipment, communication systems, industrial
electronics, computers, portable devices that are operated by
batteries, uninterruptable power sources (UPS), supplying
water to remote areas that have no available main supply.
Solar PV panels are considered nonlinear according to their
voltage and power behavior curves. A special value exists on
the curve (maximum power point (MPP)). This value
corresponds to the maximum power and the voltage is the
optimal voltage. This MPP depends on solar irradiance values.
It is possible to track the solar array MPP using maximum
power point tracking approaches [1-2]. These approaches are
used to keep the panels operational at MPP.
Many research works have focused on multiple MPPT
methods to track the MPP [3]. Some techniques rely on
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measuring voltage and current values to get the maximum
power [4]. These techniques require disconnection or
performing short-circuit for the PV cells in order to measure
the open-circuit or short-circuit values of reference current and
voltage. Perturb and observe (P&O) is a famous MPPT method
[5]. This method is easy to implement. It makes oscillation
operation around the maximum power point.
Another method is the incremental conductance (INC)
method [6]. This dynamic method improves the tracking
accuracy by being based on the zero valued slope of the PV
array power versus voltage. Other MPPT methods are proposed
with fuzzy logic and neural networks in [7]. These techniques
use more computations due to using control rules. Other
techniques are based on Sliding mode control (SMC) method
for robust performance to parameter variations. [8]. A
technique was proposed in [9] for Fractional Nonlinear
Synergetic Control based MPPT Algorithm for PV System.
Some designs were proposed before for implementing
hybrid solar/wind power system for water pumping. One
design had 300 w turbines for the wind system in addition to
100 w for the solar system. They used 12 v 100 AH batteries
[10]. Another design had backup batteries in addition to the
wind and solar systems [11]. A design in [12] contained off-
grid wind turbines and solar array as a part of the hybrid
system.
The paper sections: section 2 displays the equations
describing the photovoltaic water pumping system and its
components. Section 3 discusses the proposed system and its
simulation results. The conclusion is after section 3.
II. PV PUMPING SYSTEM
Fig. 1 shows the block diagram of a water pumping system
that is powered by solar PV panels. The main components that
form this system are solar PV array, DC chopper circuit,
voltage regulator, and DC motor for pumping the water. The
DC chopper is a main part of the MPPT system to provide the
maximum power regardless the changes in solar irradiance
values while the regulator maintains specific DC voltage value
for operating the DC motor.
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DC/DC The components of the wind turbine power system are

PV panels chopper DC motor shown in Fig. 5. That system consists mainly of synchronous
circuit and pump condenser, asynchronous generator, and wind turbine. The
wind turbine operation is linked to wind speed value. Figs. 6
shows the block of the three-phase rectifier (for converting AC
Voltage voltage to DC voltage) that is used to provide the necessary DC
regulator voltage for operating the DC water pump motor after stepping
down the AC voltage using the three-phase transformer.

Fig. 1. General PV pumping system.

III. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM AND SIMULATION RESULTS

The blocks of the PV panel system with the MPPT are
shown in Fig. 2. The values of the irradiance were chosen
randomly to demonstrate the stability of the output voltage
since using random values refers to different weather
conditions that may happen at any time during the day (Fig. 3).
Fig. 4 shows the voltage regulator that is used to provide the
necessary DC voltage for recharging the battery bank.

Fig. 5. Wind turbine blocks.

Fig. 2. Solar PV system blocks.

Fig. 6. Three-phase AC to DC converter (rectifier).

Fig. 7 shows the blocks of the 12v DC motor and driver

that are used as an output for the proposed hybrid system.

Fig. 3. Irradiance in W/m^2.

Fig. 7. Output DC motor pump blocks.

The overall proposed system diagram is shown in Fig. 8.

The power output in kw for the solar PV panels is shown in
Fig. 9. It can be noted that the maximum power is close to 38
kw which occurs at the location of the peak as per the solar
irradiance output. The minimum power is close to 1 kw when
the solar irradiance value is very low. The output voltages of
the solar PV panels and the voltage regulator are shown in
Fig. 4. Voltage regulator blocks.
Figs. 10-11. The output voltage of the solar panels varies

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between 40 v and 175 v because of the effect of solar

irradiance variations. The voltage regulator block deals with
this variation by providing a range between 11.9 v and 13 v
which is suitable for the operation of the DC water pumps.

PV panels Voltage Battery

with regulator system
MPPT
control
DC motor
and pump
Synchronous
condenser
Three-phase Three-phase
transformer rectifier
Asynchronous
generator Fig. 11. The output voltage of the voltage regulator.

The output AC voltage of the wind turbine system is shown

Fig. 8. The proposed system blocks.
in Fig. 12. It can be seen that the average output wind AC
voltage is 625 v. The obtained DC voltage from the three-phase
rectifier is shown in Fig. 13. The obtained AC voltage from the
wind turbine was converted to DC by the rectifier block and
the value of the DC voltage was adjusted to 12.4 v using the
capacitor and inductor blocks. The obtained DC voltage is
suitable for operating the DC water pump.

Fig. 9. The power output in kw for the solar PV panels.

Fig. 12. The output wind turbine system AC voltage.

Fig. 10. Solar PV panels voltage.

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Fig. 13. The output DC voltage of the three-phase rectifier.
IV. CONCLUSION
The proposed hybrid solar/wind power system was
demonstrated for water pumping application in rural and
isolated areas that have limited rainy days. The proposed
system was designed and simulated using SIMULINK with the
following blocks and components: solar Photovoltaic (PV)
panels with Perturb and Observe MPPT algorithm for tracking
the maximum power, wind turbines, three-phase transformer,
battery bank, DC motor, synchronous condenser, asynchronous
generator, DC-AC three-phase rectifier, voltage regulator, and
DC motor. The proposed system used random values for solar
irradiance in order to test the performance and reliability of the
system under different weather conditions which can change at
any time during the day. The proposed hybrid system
maintained stable output DC voltages between 11.9 v and 13 v
for the solar PV panel system and 12.4 v for the wind turbine
system, this demonstrated the reliability of the proposed system
under different conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We acknowledge the support by University of Sharjah,
UAE.
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